Laptop and charity

[triskellian]

On the subject of my latest toy, this, too, is being typed from the comfort of my bed. Oh! The joy of wireless networking! It's taking me a while to get used to the keyboard, which is a strange one even apart from the fact that I'm used to a natural keyboard, but, on the whole, I declare the laptop a thing of beauty and a joy forever, as someone who may have been Rhiannon, referred to it earlier.

On charity, I've recently decided that I should be giving some money to good causes. The difficult question now is which charity. There are so many causes I believe in, and think deserve my money, and only so much money. It's hard to narrow it down even to a reasonable shortlist. The National Asthma Campaign is the only one I'm reasonably sure about, for obvious reasons, but I'd like to choose one or two more. So my question to you is, do you give to charity, and if so, which ones, and how did you decide?

Comments

[unknownid.livejournal.com]

I have only started giving to charity very recently -- I sent a check to Amnesty Intl a while ago, and a monthly bank draft to Oxfam. I chose Oxfam as my main recipient because I wanted to give money for something *basic*. There are lots of worthy higher-level charities, providing political lobbying/animal welfare/other things that I care about, but I care about none of them (even stuff like gay rights, which affects me directly) as much as keeping someone alive. So if my pittance can help put some food on a hungry kid's table, there's no more I could want to be done with it.

also, i have fond memories of Oxfam from spending so much time in Oxfam shops. :D

having said that, I have to start giving some money to global AIDS work, since in some parts of the world the reason that children are starving is because the adults are too sick to provide for them. awful, but true.