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Originally Posted by Grinder
Scottish Rite Children's Burn Center
http://www.shrinershq.org/hospitals/burninst/index.html
Nothing is worse than a burned child.
It's almost totally funded by the Shriners. So when you see the guys in the road with funny hats.... throw them some money.
If you want to donate money, I always use www.give.org to do some research first. It list how much money actually goes to the charity. |
I can personally vouch for the shriners, when I was a kid (8) I was in a car accident that left me paralyzed from the waist down. After being in the hospital for a year, my parents were pretty much broke and the shriners paid for me to go to their hospital and fit me with braces (which was important to me at the time) so I could walk. They asked and got absolutely nothing in return, and all this was totally unsolicited from my family. A friend of the family was a shriner and he put it all together and kind of surprised us with it. Really a great organization and they deserve every penny you ever send them! I'd also like to put in a plug for the National Wheelchair Basketball Association
NWBA over the years I've seen many lives ruined by accidents and other things and I've seen hundreds of people who thought their lives were over start participating in sports again and make a 100% attitude change. As a youngster it's what I focused and excelled in and it made such a difference in my rehabilitation I couldn't begin to explain.