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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Christmas charity choice

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WooWooSlayer · 07/12/2022 20:40

I CBA to send Christmas cards this year. It's too expensive, postal strikes are imminent, it's bad for the environment and [insert any other feasible excuse here.]

So, as is oft the done thing, I'm going to give what money I would have spent on cards and postage to a charity. I would really like it to be for a charity that does work with women (actual women) in developing countries, ideally related to the constraints placed upon them because of their female anatomy - because nothing boils my ssip more than the exploitation, denigration and/or colonisation of the female body.

I've previously donated to Population Services International. Anyone got any other suggestions? Would also be good to know that they score highly on the GiveWell index.

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StillWeRise · 08/12/2022 14:37

Beyond FGM
this organisation works in a very remote part of Kenya, alongside local people, to end the practice of fgm and early child marriage, they have succeeded in supporting 6000 girls to reject fgm

crispinglovershighkick · 08/12/2022 14:56

We donate to either the Fistula Fund or the Fistula Foundation (I haven't got the details in front of me), it's a serious health and social problem for women in developing countries and a very worthy cause.

postcardpuffin · 09/12/2022 06:55

Another recommendation for the Fistula Foundation.
fistulafoundation.org/

postcardpuffin · 09/12/2022 06:58

(They have a page about how to donate from eg the U.K.):
fistulafoundation.org/international-giving/

Ofcourseshecan · 18/12/2022 20:48

Goodgifts.org sends your payment for a virtual gift of your choice to a charity that provides it, and a card or ecard to the person in whose name you're buying it.

The only downside, to me, is that you don't know the identity of the charity that your money goes to, through Goodgifts. That never mattered to me till I started discovering what bad work some of the most famous ones do.
Amnesty, for example, will never get another penny from me since they sent placards to be used by protesters against women holding a conference on domestic violence.

For example:
Drugs to prevent women bleeding to death in childbirth; £20 for 10 women
www.goodgifts.org/save-10-lives

Toiletries for schoolgirls in Africa, £38:
www.goodgifts.org/toiletries-for-3-schoolgirls-in-africa-1

Funding for Yezidi women clearing land where Islamic State laid mines, £35 or £100
www.goodgifts.org/yezidi-women-fight-back

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