World Donation Day-25/NOV/2011

1DC would like to present the worlds first ever ‘World Donation Day’ which will take place on November 25th each year, beginning in 2011.
Throughout a calendar year, there are many different international days promoting or raising awareness for a variety of initiatives and causes. These include:


- World Cancer Day, February 4th-2011.
- International Women’s Day, March 8th-2011.
- World Hepatitis Day, May 19th-2011.
- World AIDS Day, December 1st-2011.

There are hundreds if not thousands of great causes that deserve there own ‘World Day’ like the above mentioned. Many of these World Days attempt to not only raise awareness but also encourage people to donate to a particular charity.

A fantastic initiative that happens each year in Melbourne is The Good Friday Appeal, which generates almost $15 million in just one day (Good Friday) for the Royal Children's Hospital. One day every year the whole of Australia come together and dig deep or donate a few dollars for a great cause. But imagine if there was a similar donating initiative worldwide, and everyone donated? how much money could be raised? how many different great causes could benefit?

The 1DC World Donation Day will be based on the format of the Good Friday Appeal. We will have call centers set up to collect donations for your charity of choice.
In the 21st Century, our schedules and workloads are busier than ever before. Although it would be ideal for everyone to volunteer some time to help a cause, sometimes it is simply impossible. Donating is the easiest and simplest way to give a helping hand. We encourage everyone to donate to any cause or charity close to your heart on World Donation Day.

Make a difference.

1Donation is all it takes...
Regards,
Alen - 1DC

P.s. Which charity is close to your heart that you would like to donate on World Donation Day- 25th of November, 2011 and why?

Personal Experience with a Charity

Each Easter a group of 4 families, one being my own, put aside a day to do something in celebration. All having children around the same age, in years gone by these days consisted of egg hunts and eating as much chocolate as possible.

A few years ago as we were all older our parents decided to show us instead what the less fortunate people in the city did over the festive break. We donated our day that year to the Smith Family. We each loaded up the cars with pre-packaged boxes of food and where given a list of names and addresses to deliver them to. 

The commission flats where the main destination for my family, before then I had never really paid too much attention to them. A trend emerged as the deliveries went on, many were old and lonely, living alone and knowing you were coming really made their day. All of them would want you to stay and have a conversation, what was most confronting was you could see past them in the doorways. They lived in small colourless rooms. At times you could see a small tv on an old cabinet, a table with a few different chairs and maybe a rattly old couch. I guess it’s what you don’t normally see when you just give money to a charity, you don’t always see where it is actually going and how grateful people can be. 

If it wasn’t for that day I would most likely still be oblivious to how people live in the ‘concrete eyesores’ as I have heard them described. I finished that day with a new appreciation for what these charities do, Australia is by no means a third world country but there are still plenty of people that need help.

What are some of your experiences with charities?

Mark, 1DC