At Planet Aid, we love any ideas that promote worthwhile charities and gets people involved. All the posts in this project name worthwhile charities, causes and organizations, but some bring in a more personal involvement and really touched out hearts. One such post on poverty nearly brought us to tears with its sincerity.

It's things like the "Caring Compassion Chairty" project that make us glad we do what we do here at Planet Aid. We want to do what we can to help the world at large, but we firmly believe that we are also helping you make your lives better by helping others. It's a proven fact that doing good makes you feel good, so help yourself by helping others. Find your nearest Planet Aid donation center and drop off some of those clothes you know you don't really need; it's a little effort that goes a long way.

 

At Planet Aid, we love any ideas that promote worthwhile charities and gets people involved. All the posts in this project name worthwhile charities, causes and organizations, but some bring in a more personal involvement and really touched out hearts. One such post on poverty nearly brought us to tears with its sincerity.

It's things like the "Caring Compassion Chairty" project that make us glad we do what we do here at Planet Aid. We want to do what we can to help the world at large, but we firmly believe that we are also helping you make your lives better by helping others. It's a proven fact that doing good makes you feel good, so help yourself by helping others. Find your nearest Planet Aid donation center and drop off some of those clothes you know you don't really need; it's a little effort that goes a long way.

 

At Planet Aid, we love any ideas that promote worthwhile charities and gets people involved. All the posts in this project name worthwhile charities, causes and organizations, but some bring in a more personal involvement and really touched out hearts. One such post on poverty nearly brought us to tears with its sincerity.

It's things like the "Caring Compassion Chairty" project that make us glad we do what we do here at Planet Aid. We want to do what we can to help the world at large, but we firmly believe that we are also helping you make your lives better by helping others. It's a proven fact that doing good makes you feel good, so help yourself by helping others. Find your nearest Planet Aid donation center and drop off some of those clothes you know you don't really need; it's a little effort that goes a long way.

 

At Planet Aid, we love any ideas that promote worthwhile charities and gets people involved. All the posts in this project name worthwhile charities, causes and organizations, but some bring in a more personal involvement and really touched out hearts. One such post on poverty nearly brought us to tears with its sincerity.

It's things like the "Caring Compassion Chairty" project that make us glad we do what we do here at Planet Aid. We want to do what we can to help the world at large, but we firmly believe that we are also helping you make your lives better by helping others. It's a proven fact that doing good makes you feel good, so help yourself by helping others. Find your nearest Planet Aid donation center and drop off some of those clothes you know you don't really need; it's a little effort that goes a long way.

 

At Planet Aid, we love any ideas that promote worthwhile charities and gets people involved. All the posts in this project name worthwhile charities, causes and organizations, but some bring in a more personal involvement and really touched out hearts. One such post on poverty nearly brought us to tears with its sincerity.

It's things like the "Caring Compassion Chairty" project that make us glad we do what we do here at Planet Aid. We want to do what we can to help the world at large, but we firmly believe that we are also helping you make your lives better by helping others. It's a proven fact that doing good makes you feel good, so help yourself by helping others. Find your nearest Planet Aid donation center and drop off some of those clothes you know you don't really need; it's a little effort that goes a long way.

 

At Planet Aid, we do as much as we can to donate food, funds and clothing to the needy, but one organization can only do so much. So whenever we hear about a worthy cause or a great charity project, we like to spread the word and help out in any way we can. Right now, our hats are off to Free Rice, an addictive website that helps build users' vocabulary and feed the hungry-10 grains of rice at a time.

FreeRice.com, sister site to world poverty site Poverty.com, has been up less than a month and has already donated nearly 400,000,000 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. The concept is simple: answer increasingly difficult vocabulary questions to boost your own knowledge and help feed the world's hungry. Every correctly answered question represents a donation of 10 grains of rice. The site is sponsored by advertisers, so you get to sharpen your brain and do something good-for free!

FreeRice has taken the web community by storm, getting lots of attention from bloggers and other media outlets. The game is hard to resist, and the Planet Aid employees are jockeying to be the first to reach the elusive high scoring level 50. Take a break from your day to excercise your brain and help make a difference at FreeRice.com.

At Planet Aid, we do as much as we can to donate food, funds and clothing to the needy, but one organization can only do so much. So whenever we hear about a worthy cause or a great charity project, we like to spread the word and help out in any way we can. Right now, our hats are off to Free Rice, an addictive website that helps build users' vocabulary and feed the hungry-10 grains of rice at a time.

FreeRice.com, sister site to world poverty site Poverty.com, has been up less than a month and has already donated nearly 400,000,000 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. The concept is simple: answer increasingly difficult vocabulary questions to boost your own knowledge and help feed the world's hungry. Every correctly answered question represents a donation of 10 grains of rice. The site is sponsored by advertisers, so you get to sharpen your brain and do something good-for free!

FreeRice has taken the web community by storm, getting lots of attention from bloggers and other media outlets. The game is hard to resist, and the Planet Aid employees are jockeying to be the first to reach the elusive high scoring level 50. Take a break from your day to excercise your brain and help make a difference at FreeRice.com.

At Planet Aid, we do as much as we can to donate food, funds and clothing to the needy, but one organization can only do so much. So whenever we hear about a worthy cause or a great charity project, we like to spread the word and help out in any way we can. Right now, our hats are off to Free Rice, an addictive website that helps build users' vocabulary and feed the hungry-10 grains of rice at a time.

FreeRice.com, sister site to world poverty site Poverty.com, has been up less than a month and has already donated nearly 400,000,000 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. The concept is simple: answer increasingly difficult vocabulary questions to boost your own knowledge and help feed the world's hungry. Every correctly answered question represents a donation of 10 grains of rice. The site is sponsored by advertisers, so you get to sharpen your brain and do something good-for free!

FreeRice has taken the web community by storm, getting lots of attention from bloggers and other media outlets. The game is hard to resist, and the Planet Aid employees are jockeying to be the first to reach the elusive high scoring level 50. Take a break from your day to excercise your brain and help make a difference at FreeRice.com.

At Planet Aid, we do as much as we can to donate food, funds and clothing to the needy, but one organization can only do so much. So whenever we hear about a worthy cause or a great charity project, we like to spread the word and help out in any way we can. Right now, our hats are off to Free Rice, an addictive website that helps build users' vocabulary and feed the hungry-10 grains of rice at a time.

FreeRice.com, sister site to world poverty site Poverty.com, has been up less than a month and has already donated nearly 400,000,000 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. The concept is simple: answer increasingly difficult vocabulary questions to boost your own knowledge and help feed the world's hungry. Every correctly answered question represents a donation of 10 grains of rice. The site is sponsored by advertisers, so you get to sharpen your brain and do something good-for free!

FreeRice has taken the web community by storm, getting lots of attention from bloggers and other media outlets. The game is hard to resist, and the Planet Aid employees are jockeying to be the first to reach the elusive high scoring level 50. Take a break from your day to excercise your brain and help make a difference at FreeRice.com.

At Planet Aid, we do as much as we can to donate food, funds and clothing to the needy, but one organization can only do so much. So whenever we hear about a worthy cause or a great charity project, we like to spread the word and help out in any way we can. Right now, our hats are off to Free Rice, an addictive website that helps build users' vocabulary and feed the hungry-10 grains of rice at a time.

FreeRice.com, sister site to world poverty site Poverty.com, has been up less than a month and has already donated nearly 400,000,000 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. The concept is simple: answer increasingly difficult vocabulary questions to boost your own knowledge and help feed the world's hungry. Every correctly answered question represents a donation of 10 grains of rice. The site is sponsored by advertisers, so you get to sharpen your brain and do something good-for free!

FreeRice has taken the web community by storm, getting lots of attention from bloggers and other media outlets. The game is hard to resist, and the Planet Aid employees are jockeying to be the first to reach the elusive high scoring level 50. Take a break from your day to excercise your brain and help make a difference at FreeRice.com.

Since the institution of free primary education in 1995, school enrollment has soared to record highs. This surge left an extreme disparity between the number of students and the resources available to them. A lack of qualified teachers has allowed the student:teacher ratio to climb to nearly 80:1 in some rural areas.

Laptops donated through Planet Aid or Humana People to People will go directly to Teacher Training colleges to help prepare and train the educators that are so badly needed in Mozambique, Angola and Malawi. To date, these countries have trained over 4400 teachers and all three are continuing to expand their programs.

The success of our first laptop donation has inspired us to continue with this program at Planet Aid, so we are pleased to announce that we will now be accepting laptop donations all year round. Laptop donations are tax deductible and cannot be left in our clothing donation bins. To donate, please contact Mikaela Levons at Planet Aid via email at Mikaela.levons@planetaid.org or call us at 973-897-3006.

Since the institution of free primary education in 1995, school enrollment has soared to record highs. This surge left an extreme disparity between the number of students and the resources available to them. A lack of qualified teachers has allowed the student:teacher ratio to climb to nearly 80:1 in some rural areas.

Laptops donated through Planet Aid or Humana People to People will go directly to Teacher Training colleges to help prepare and train the educators that are so badly needed in Mozambique, Angola and Malawi. To date, these countries have trained over 4400 teachers and all three are continuing to expand their programs.

The success of our first laptop donation has inspired us to continue with this program at Planet Aid, so we are pleased to announce that we will now be accepting laptop donations all year round. Laptop donations are tax deductible and cannot be left in our clothing donation bins. To donate, please contact Mikaela Levons at Planet Aid via email at Mikaela.levons@planetaid.org or call us at 973-897-3006.

Since the institution of free primary education in 1995, school enrollment has soared to record highs. This surge left an extreme disparity between the number of students and the resources available to them. A lack of qualified teachers has allowed the student:teacher ratio to climb to nearly 80:1 in some rural areas.

Laptops donated through Planet Aid or Humana People to People will go directly to Teacher Training colleges to help prepare and train the educators that are so badly needed in Mozambique, Angola and Malawi. To date, these countries have trained over 4400 teachers and all three are continuing to expand their programs.

The success of our first laptop donation has inspired us to continue with this program at Planet Aid, so we are pleased to announce that we will now be accepting laptop donations all year round. Laptop donations are tax deductible and cannot be left in our clothing donation bins. To donate, please contact Mikaela Levons at Planet Aid via email at Mikaela.levons@planetaid.org or call us at 973-897-3006.

Since the institution of free primary education in 1995, school enrollment has soared to record highs. This surge left an extreme disparity between the number of students and the resources available to them. A lack of qualified teachers has allowed the student:teacher ratio to climb to nearly 80:1 in some rural areas.

Laptops donated through Planet Aid or Humana People to People will go directly to Teacher Training colleges to help prepare and train the educators that are so badly needed in Mozambique, Angola and Malawi. To date, these countries have trained over 4400 teachers and all three are continuing to expand their programs.

The success of our first laptop donation has inspired us to continue with this program at Planet Aid, so we are pleased to announce that we will now be accepting laptop donations all year round. Laptop donations are tax deductible and cannot be left in our clothing donation bins. To donate, please contact Mikaela Levons at Planet Aid via email at Mikaela.levons@planetaid.org or call us at 973-897-3006.

Since the institution of free primary education in 1995, school enrollment has soared to record highs. This surge left an extreme disparity between the number of students and the resources available to them. A lack of qualified teachers has allowed the student:teacher ratio to climb to nearly 80:1 in some rural areas.

Laptops donated through Planet Aid or Humana People to People will go directly to Teacher Training colleges to help prepare and train the educators that are so badly needed in Mozambique, Angola and Malawi. To date, these countries have trained over 4400 teachers and all three are continuing to expand their programs.

The success of our first laptop donation has inspired us to continue with this program at Planet Aid, so we are pleased to announce that we will now be accepting laptop donations all year round. Laptop donations are tax deductible and cannot be left in our clothing donation bins. To donate, please contact Mikaela Levons at Planet Aid via email at Mikaela.levons@planetaid.org or call us at 973-897-3006.

Clothing donations made to Planet Aid are resold to raise funds for social development and HIV/AIDS programs in Africa and Asia. Your single donation really does make a difference, especially if you make it a family ritual at the end of every season. Here are a couple ideas to get you started:

Make it an event
Pick a day at the end of each season for “Closet Cleanout.” Have every member of the family pick out the items they don’t wear or that don’t fit (younger children may need help with this), and place them in plastic bags. Pack them up and deliver them to your nearest clothing donation center.

Trade in your old styles
Make a deal with yourself that for every new item you buy, one old one has to be donated to a Planet Aid bin. You can get your kids involved by setting up a “trade in center” where they can cash in old clothes in exchange for credits for new ones—five old styles for one new, or whatever scale you think is appropriate.

 Plan a Planet Aid activity
We frequently host clothing drives in exchange for free or reduced-priced admission to events, such as the Lee Speedway hobby stock car race. Make a deal with yourself or the kids: clean out your closet in exchange for an afternoon or a night out.

It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved: you get a clean closet, maybe a few new clothes and even a tax break; children and families in need receive food, clothing, education and medical attention. So the next time you look at your overstuffed and outdated closet, don't look at it as chore; think of it as an opportunity to help those less fortunate, and yourself as well.

Clothing donations made to Planet Aid are resold to raise funds for social development and HIV/AIDS programs in Africa and Asia. Your single donation really does make a difference, especially if you make it a family ritual at the end of every season. Here are a couple ideas to get you started:

Make it an event
Pick a day at the end of each season for “Closet Cleanout.” Have every member of the family pick out the items they don’t wear or that don’t fit (younger children may need help with this), and place them in plastic bags. Pack them up and deliver them to your nearest clothing donation center.

Trade in your old styles
Make a deal with yourself that for every new item you buy, one old one has to be donated to a Planet Aid bin. You can get your kids involved by setting up a “trade in center” where they can cash in old clothes in exchange for credits for new ones—five old styles for one new, or whatever scale you think is appropriate.

 Plan a Planet Aid activity
We frequently host clothing drives in exchange for free or reduced-priced admission to events, such as the Lee Speedway hobby stock car race. Make a deal with yourself or the kids: clean out your closet in exchange for an afternoon or a night out.

It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved: you get a clean closet, maybe a few new clothes and even a tax break; children and families in need receive food, clothing, education and medical attention. So the next time you look at your overstuffed and outdated closet, don't look at it as chore; think of it as an opportunity to help those less fortunate, and yourself as well.