Country Life In The City

For most of us now, thoughts are turning to Christmas. Its also a good time for charities to make a bit of extra cash through selling charity Christmas cards. People don’t seem to mind buying charity Christmas cards too much. For me, if they’re reasonably good quality, quite cheerful and a good price, I’ll pick them up.

Recently there has been a lot about charities helping those suffering from the effects of climate change. Unfortunately it is those most vulnerable and least able to cope which are affected most my climate change, such as Ethiopia and Indonesia. A charity gift – food, healthcare, animals, clean water, all these are literally gifts of life to these people. Of course, its not only the third world which is feeling the effects. Australia was hit by a severe heatwave and flooding again this year, sparking a huge international charitable effort in aid of the beleaguered population.

We haven’t yet suffered extremes of weather in the UK as much as other parts of the world and its easy to sit back and be complacent about it. Charity gifts are becoming more and more popular so why not help those less fortunate, after all its better to give than receive.