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 How You Can Help Children
There are many things you can do to help other children and make a difference in the world.
The most important thing is get involved. Even if you've never volunteered or never written a letter concerning an issue you care about, step up and take a chance.
Help Sick Children
Help Hungry Children
Help Homeless Children
Our charity wish list allows you to announce your event to friends and family and collect donations online.
Help Sick Children
Brighten up their room by creating decorations -- paper flowers, leaves, snowflakes, raindrops
-- depending on the season. Draw pictures on poster paper they can hang.
Many children in hospitals are bored. Bring them art supplies, paper, crayons,
and colored markers so they can create their own art to hang.
Cheer them up. Bring in a book of jokes, and volunteer to read them to other
children. Sure to get some giggles!
Distribute phone cards to children who want to call loved ones.
Become a pen pal to a child in the hospital.
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Helping the Hungry
Know the facts.
The first step to ending hunger is to learn about it. As you learn, teach your
friends, classmates, and parents. Facts
about hunger and poverty.
Volunteer at a foodbank to help prepare and serve food to hungry families.
Organize a food drive at your school, church, or neighborhood. Collect food
and bring it to shelters.
Raise money by having a talent show, race, or other event, and donate the
proceeds to ending hunger organizations. Find
more ideas here.
Write letters to the editor of your local newspaper about childhood hunger
in the United States. Ask your parents to help you.
With the help of your parents, have a garage sale for the whole neighborhood
and donate the proceeds to a hunger organization.
If you know of a family that is hungry, you can call the Lifeline National Hotline at 800-HUNGRY2 for a local foodbank.
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Helping the Homeless
Bring books,
crayons, pads, and art supplies to children in homeless shelters.
Bring a bag of groceries to a homeless shelter.
Brighten up their holidays. People who live in homeless shelters already
feel pretty bad. A kind gesture or gift could make their day. Bring a Christmas
stocking/ornament, Hanukkah menorah, or Kwanzaa display.
Create a "Back to School" day drive. Collect and/or purchase school
supplies for children at shelters -- pens, pencils, art supplies, notebooks,
backpacks, lunch boxes, and the like -- so they have what they need for their
first day of school.
Have a ball. Bring toys, board games, and cards to a local homeless shelter.
If you are older and like helping younger children, volunteer to help a child
in a shelter with their reading or math.
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