06-Dec-2010, 01:33 AM
The recent Nirmukta video contribution to the Out Campaign concludes with the call "Let us come together to build a culture of Reason and Compassion!". Building a culture of Compassion involves exercising empathy in tangible ways and putting our money where our mouth is.
Here is the beginning stub of a list of philanthropic initiatives in India and abroad, which are involved in activities serving urgent human needs, protecting human dignity and promoting human freedoms in a manner that is non-discriminatory of the faith-affiliations, gender identities and other antecedents of the beneficiaries as well as the donors.
In the list, I have limited myself to charities with whose representatives I have had at least a brief interaction on campus or outside. The links provide information about the beneficiaries and contribution links. If the admins would like to organize this is in a more systematic way, that's great too. This is a list which I am sure many of us will have additions to suggest, and which many of us may want to turn to when we are looking for a way to make occasions like birthdays, anniversaries and festivals more meaningful and memorable.
1. Isabel Allende Foundation
2. Doctors without Borders (Nonbelievers Giving Aid partners them)
3. Asha for education
4. .....
Here is the beginning stub of a list of philanthropic initiatives in India and abroad, which are involved in activities serving urgent human needs, protecting human dignity and promoting human freedoms in a manner that is non-discriminatory of the faith-affiliations, gender identities and other antecedents of the beneficiaries as well as the donors.
In the list, I have limited myself to charities with whose representatives I have had at least a brief interaction on campus or outside. The links provide information about the beneficiaries and contribution links. If the admins would like to organize this is in a more systematic way, that's great too. This is a list which I am sure many of us will have additions to suggest, and which many of us may want to turn to when we are looking for a way to make occasions like birthdays, anniversaries and festivals more meaningful and memorable.
1. Isabel Allende Foundation
2. Doctors without Borders (Nonbelievers Giving Aid partners them)
3. Asha for education
4. .....