We sponsor a child from Zambia, Africa through World Vision. We get yearly updates and pictures of our sponsored child and my DD9 really loves doing this. She writes stories for school and includes our sponsored child within the story.
Additionally, in November, we pick up two shoeboxes from Samaritan's Purse and the two of us make an afternoon out of shopping for items to put in the shoebox to gift to children around the world who normally would never receive a gift for Christmas.
We have done fundraisers (garage sales/cookie sales) to raise money to donate to our local animal shelter.
I took Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University and his daughter gave a lecture on childhood income/saving. She recommended that when you give your child an allowance, you give them 3 envelopes to put the $ in. One is labeled Save, one is labeled Spend, and one is labeled Give. You don't dictate how much goes into any one envelope but something must go into each envelope every single time they receive their allowance.
In doing this, my DD has put quite a bit of $$ in her Give envelope and I let her pick a charity of her choice to donate to periodically.
It really makes her feel good.
Last edited by kelly0523; 12/03/13 03:33 PM.
