Christmas is coming! - Consider HELPING your local charities.

[IainB]

"Poverty doesn't take a break at Christmas."
This is a summary post:

• Started:  2017-11-26 2044hrs (NZT)
• Updated: 2017-11-26 2349hrs

The purpose here is to collect links from DonationCoderForum denizens to charitable institutions which they sponsor and which have been set up to recycle and co-incidentally help the poor and homeless - in your area.

A lot of people don't realise how easy and helpful it is to donate not just money, but stuff, and also how helpful/supportive it can be to buy stuff at charitable outlets. Please post and contribute your links, and I shall add them to the list below:
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"Charity begins at home"
(Please PM me if you are unsure what to do and would like me to assist/advise in a donation/delivery to an Auckland (NZ) charity.)

New Zealand, Auckland:

• Auckland City Mission (@IainB local) - deliver to their premises in Hobson Street: Please donate unopened/fresh food containers, clean/undamaged clothing, toys, small chattels, books, working and safe appliances, CDs, DVDs.
  Every Christmas, The Mission makes Christmas bundles for children and families of the poor/homeless, and throughout the year feeds the homeless in their canteen. They have retail "Op-shops" across Auckland which you can help if you not only donate stuff to, but also if you buy stuff from.
  Telephone them to collect heavy chattels/furniture.
  
  
• Red Cross, Auckland, Dominion Road, Mt Eden (@IainB local) - list of NZ Red Cross shops. Please donate clean/undamaged clothing, toys, small chattels, books, working and safe appliances, CDs, DVDs.
  They have retail "Op-shops" across Auckland which you can help if you not only donate stuff to, but also if you buy stuff from.
  Telephone them to collect heavy chattels/furniture.
  
  
• Salvation Army - next door to Red Cross, Auckland, Dominion Road, Mt Eden (@IainB local) -
  about The Salvation Army (NZ, Fiji & Tonga) Please donate clean/undamaged clothing, toys, small chattels, books, working and safe appliances, CDs, DVDs.
  They have retail "Op-shops" across Auckland which you can help if you not only donate stuff to, but also if you buy stuff from.
  Telephone them to collect heavy chattels/furniture.
  

[IainB]

I was initially inspired to create this thread after being the recipient of, and after thinking about, the selfless Christian generosity - last year - of a particular DCF denizen.
I have passed-on that generosity.

[IainB]

The motivation for creating this thread at this point was:

• (a) the pressure of the proximity of Christmas, and
• (b) an internalised, strong desire to "do something more" this Christmas, and
• (c) something that I read about happening in Sweden.
  

I shall collect notes on on the latter and post them here, if I can make sense of them.