Overview of charity projects in RuNet

How is your day usually? Alarm clock, road to office or freelancer workplace. Routine duties and new projects, tasks, orders. Breaks for a smoke, lunch, drink, chat on Skype and VKontakte. Evening, drive home, shop, dinner or a movie, a pub or TV, wife, children, "how was your day?" Computer or tablet, the same VKontakte, classmates, zhezheshechka. Fresh series of the next series, to sleep. That’s how the majority lives, including myself. In our life there is only a place for work, family and entertainment. We seek entertainment, they help us not to think, relax, be distracted. The civilization of egoism. “After all, you deserve it.” "Treat yourself". "And let the whole world wait". I don’t know about you, but more and more often I get a feeling of futility, the meaninglessness of my life. No, of course, everyone finds the meaning of life: caring for parents, wives, husbands, children, self-realization, become a boss, emigrate ... But man is a social animal. It is thanks to the interconnections that we build and maintain with other people that the human community is capable of everything that it is capable of. As all kinds of abominations, and the greatest accomplishments and achievements. And the ability to combine efforts for the sake of a good cause, for the sake of help, is our most important advantage. After all, none of us is safe from misfortunes (pah-pah-pah!). You can rely only on yourself and on your family, but every day a lot of people face such trials and hardships that they can not cope on their own. Why am I leading all this? Moreover, there are quite a few people among us who find time, strength, and means to not only receive something from this life, but also to give it to others. I'm talking about charity.

There is probably no other technology that would give a greater impetus to the development of charity than information networks. With the proliferation of the Internet, more and more new initiatives are emerging for organizing care for the sick and needy, people and animals. And what is gratifying, mainly these are not one-time public relations campaigns of different companies, but communities of really passionate people trying to improve this world a little. Let me tell you about several charity Internet projects in Runet that stand out from the crowd: perhaps some of you will want to take an active part and really help someone, and not just like or “send rays of good”. In the vast majority of cases, charitable projects need such types of assistance as:

• money donations both for the project as a whole and for targeted individuals or animals;
• assistance in organizing and conducting various events;
• Volunteer assistance in any activity carried out by charity projects.

People

1000 hearts

An action to raise funds for targeted treatment of children, organized by the Life Line charity foundation. A rather rare case of “unprotected” design of a charity project site.



Assistance collection is organized on this site in an original way: each child who needs help is presented in the form of a virtual “tree”. You can leave a wish for the child on the virtual "leaf" of this tree. To get a "leaf" you need to make money:



An interesting idea, implemented conveniently and clearly. You can examine each “tree” in detail, read the description of the child’s problem and the wishes left on all the leaves of the “tree”.

Welcome Mail.ru

The recently launched portal is a platform for hosting charity projects. This is not a specific fund, this is a meeting place for those who want to help someone: for organizers and volunteers.



You can either create your own project to raise funds or attract assistants, or simply provide all possible assistance to published projects with your wallet or presence.



The site design is made in the traditional style for Mail.ru, well thought out, clearly and simply implemented a choice of parameters by which you will be offered projects to help:

• town,
• Help topics:
• For children
• For adults
• Elderly
• To animals
• Nature
• how do you want to help (in money; in deed; in both)

Together

Another platform for hosting private charity projects and receiving assistance, whose partner is Yandex. If “Good Mail.ru” offers a wide range of topics for help, then “All Together” is almost completely people-oriented. The division into subtopics is as follows:

• Treatment
• Orphans
• Adults
• Miscellaneous help
• People with disabilities
• Hospices
• The elderly
• Homeless

But at the same time, the total number of projects presented on the site is still very small. Navigation is inconvenient: for example, to transfer money to a project, you either have to go to its own website or donate to the project via the Blago.ru website . Well, everything is right for people ...

Blago.ru

A much more sensible platform compared to "All Together." It is also focused almost exclusively on helping people, the list of topics is even wider:

• Special children
• Seriously ill children
• Teens and young people
• Animals, including the homeless
• WWII veterans and “hot spots”
• People living with HIV / AIDS
• Old people and old people
• Orphans
• People in difficult life situations
• Families (including large and incomplete)
• Children, adults with disabilities

In this case, the main type of assistance is fundraising. Of course, volunteering is often indicated in long verbose project descriptions, but only in descriptions. As they say, that seeks, that will find.



Of course, this overview does not claim to be multifaceted. This is just an attempt to talk about the development of the spread of charity via the Internet. About charity portals, so to speak. At the same time, out of all the charitable sites I viewed (and there were several dozen), Dobro Mail.ru stands out for its “friendliness” and the convenience of interacting with visitors.

Animals

For those who believe that animals also deserve help, of course there are projects too. So, here is just a small part of charitable projects that help those “for whom we are responsible.” All of the following funds provide assistance in the treatment and search for hosts for homeless, crippled, discarded animals.
Here I will not dwell in detail, I will give only a few addresses where you can find contacts of charitable organizations for animals throughout the country. All of the following funds provide assistance in the treatment and search for hosts for homeless, crippled, discarded animals.

Together

Section dedicated to animals on the site already mentioned above.

Information project on shelters and problems of homeless animals

Here you can find information and contacts from animal shelters across the country. The list is organized on a geographical basis.

Section on the site " CatDog "

Another database of animal shelters throughout the country.

I hope that thanks to this brief review of charity projects, one of the readers will help those who really need help. And it’s not at all necessary in those projects that are described here.