There is always someone worse off than you are. If we can help them we should. This page provides opportunities to do so. There are links to Australian charities and aid organisations and to online ways of helping, several with nothing to do but click a button or exercise your mind.

Information is also available for international groups, programs designed to assist the poor and United Nations statements and actions.

Take a moment and see what you can do for someone else today.

Australian Charities & Support Groups

• ACOSS
  Council of Social Services. A support body for those less well off in Australia.
• AusAid
  The official government overseas aid agency. Find out where, what, how much.
• Auscharity
  A listing of all of Australia’s charities.
• Australian Volunteers
  Volunteering activities for people, including teachers. Reports from people who have volunteered. Listings of what they actually do.
• Caritas Australia
  ‘We help people to help themselves, regardless of race, political beliefs, gender, religion’.
• Guide Dogs Association
  New South Wales & Australian Capital Territory. Developing guide dogs to aid the blind.
• Heart Foundation
  News, events, different levels of information for specific groups, e.g. schools, professionals, etc.. Also buy Xmas cards.
• Indigenous Literacy Campaign - School Aid
  ‘SchoolAid’s Indigenous Literacy Campaign in support of the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation asks Aussie schools and students join us and work together to close the enormous gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous literacy !’
• Plan Australia
  ‘Child-focused, aid organisation with staff and volunteers working … to help children, their families and communities in 45 developing countries to reach their potential’.
• Red Cross Australia
  Find about blood donation, other aspects of their work.
• Riding for the Disabled
  Directory, mission statement, goals, links to all state organisations.
• TEAR Australia
  Australian aid site - the organisation, activities, how you can help, more.
• World Vision
  Australia’s largest aid and development agency. Make a donation, sponsor a child, link to your site.

General Sites

• American Civil Liberties Union
  What they stand for, how they achieve their goals. Interesting in light of the individuality of the nation.
• Amnesty International
  Aiming to help political prisoners around the world.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  A wealth [genuinely, at tens of millions of dollars] of help in areas like health and education.
• BOINC
  ‘Use the idle time on your computer [Windows, Mac, or Linux] to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, do many other types of scientific research. It’s safe, secure, easy’.
• Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger
  A program, on three levels, to make students more aware of hunger in the world and how we go about combatting this. Provides lesson structures, links to other groups with the same aim.
• Food First
  Much further than just food. Topics designed to help others. You can make better judgements about needs and ways of helping.
• Free Rice
  Donate grains of rice while improving your vocabulary [more than 196 million grains donated in one day]. Other options for questions. Help others in this very easy, no cost way.
  Brilliant !
• GiveWell
  ‘Charity Reviews and Recommendations. Thousands of hours have gone into finding our top-rated charities. They’re proven, cost-effective, underfunded, and outstanding. Don’t settle for average. Use our Free research to do as much good as possible’.
• Human Rights Watch
  Alerts, petitions, action to help protect human rights around the world.
• Hunger Facts
  Hunger Myths and Realities. There are myths everywhere about hunger and how it can be done away with. Find the truth about some here. Link to other pages for more information about world hunger.
• International Volunteers
  If you have the urge, time, etc., to help.
• Kiva
  ‘The world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world’.
• Medicens Sans Frontieres
  Doctors without Borders. Site for volunteers and donations. This is the Australian version of the site.
• Oxfam
  British charity which works around the world. Has links to such groups as Community Aid Abroad.
• The Hunger Site
  First, and probably the best, of the click-to-donate sites. Help people by clicking on the site. [See Quick Donations to the right, above.]
• The Rainforest Site
  Help save rainforest around the world. Each time you click on the site it raises funds.
• ReliefWeb
  Information on humanitarian activity and groups. ‘The global hub for time-critical humanitarian information on Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters’.
• Rough Guide to a Better World
  ‘The essential guide to how the world can be a better place for everyone. Poverty in the developing world is well known, but less publicised are the efforts of those who combat hunger, disease and illiteracy. This guide shows how you can get involved’. Download the book using this link.
  There appear to be some problems with this site. It will be maintained only until the next update unless these are resolved.

Special Sites

• United Nations - Humanitarian Affairs
  Link to several United Nations groups involved in humanitarian affairs.
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  This document gives us a starting point to understand why we need to help others.

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