Season of giving: Who do you support (See details)

I give to the Disasters Emergency Committee which operates in the UK.

From the website: The DEC brings together 15 leading aid charities to raise funds quickly and efficiently at times of crisis overseas. In these times of crisis, people in life-and-death situations need our help and our mission is to save, protect and rebuild lives through effective humanitarian response.

When I can afford it I give to an animal charity.

I give to St. Jude’s children’s hospital and to the two local animal shelters.

I like World Central Kitchen too, so I often donate to them! I give to my church every week as a tithe, and sometimes I make an extra offering to one of our missionaries.

Other than that, there’s a lovely animal rescue place in Ohio called, Our Hands Extended Sanctuary. This woman, along with a few employees and a whole lot of volunteers, does incredible work with cats and dogs that have been abandoned or brought in a strays. Many of them are horribly injured and it looks like they might not pull through but often with the help of that’s who donate their time, they are able to save their lives. And even for the sad few that they can’t save, they are given lots of love and food and shelter until it’s time to euthanize them. They’re on Facebook if anybody is interested. Some of the stories will just break your heart but it’s always so wonderful when they are able to save an animal that comes in horribly injured.

We donate to about a dozen charities and foundations, but Red Cross is the main one.
Others include Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation, Loaves and fishes, Yellowstone Foundation, and Yosemite Foundation.

Local pet shelters and St. Jude.

Our local rescue w medical facility, Rescue One. Its really nice since they have an amazon wish list and you can have it delivered there easily.

Ziggy’s Refuge Farm Sanctuary

https://www.ziggysrefuge.org/

They not only rescue disabled farm animals, and give them a home on their farm, they help other animal rescue organizations in their vicinity. During Hurricane Helene, the owners and volunteers at Ziggy’s helped move animals and people off of flooded farms, and they donated food, medicine, generators and other supplies to other organizations that would have lost a lot of animals without their help. They are in the process of building a state of the art veterinary hospital on their farm so as not to have to transport sick and injured animals to other vet hospitals that are hours away. The other rescue organizations and farms in their area (North Carolina) will be able to use their facility too when it is completed. It will be named the River Center for Compassionate Care, for one of their pigs, named River, that didn’t survive during the hurricane when two other vet hospitals, that they drove to many hours away from their farm, refused to administer life saving treatment to a farm animal.

I found them on Facebook in the reels and then started following them. They have tremendous compassion for the animals in their care. The organization was named for Ziggy, the first pig that they saved, before embarking on a life dedicated to saving farm animals. Ziggy the pig now lives happily and safely on their farm along with a lot of other pigs, goats, horses, llamas, and 2 pug dogs <3