Human kindness, human rights?

We’ll just say it: things are feeling a bit bonkers right now. We’re feeling. So many feelings! Some of us are yelling about our feelings. Others of us are tensing our jaws and staying so very quiet. It can be tricky to discern if we should be shouting more loudly, or staying more quiet. I mean, we have rights…right?

We’re not going to weigh-in on those rights. But in a week when we were reminded that Kindness Day is a thing we all need, we stand by one basic privilege: human kindness. To that end, we’d like to introduce you to some of the Canadians that are doing their utmost to serve the world’s most vulnerable people. These are folks whose daily mission it is to extend compassionate equality, inclusion, and basic dignity.

Who do you love?

Donate a Car Canada is a family-run business operating out of Alberta. We’re a tight team of WFH humans. The captain of our little ship has made it her practice to offer employment with integrity, fairness, and inclusion. This means we’re a diverse bunch. Each of us have passions and beliefs; each of us work and serve with our own understanding of the human condition. The human condition in all of its complexities.

And every person on our team is here to serve Canadian charities without bias and with abiding compassion.

We do this understanding that Canadian donors give with their heart and soul. They donate based on their experiences. We feel so lucky to represent (with excellence and care) the broadest spectrum of those diverse beliefs, concerns, and causes possible.

When you think of your donation dollars, where does your heart turn? What is your unique expression of human kindness during strangely disrupted times? We are here to serve your cause!

Your caring counts

Social justice works make it their daily practice to extend basic human kindness. They often do this with a reach that you or I could never employ on our own. And they need us to extend that very reach.

Here is a short list of some of the charities you can choose when donating an unused or unwanted vehicle through Donate a Car Canada. We’ve randomly linked a few, but do search each of their websites. Learn how you can serve, support, and grow the charity you love!

A Better World Canada
ADRA Canada
Amnesty International Canada
ANIDA
Because I Am A Girl
Bridges of Hope
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Bullying Canada
Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers (EMCN)
First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada
Girls Inc. of Durham
G.R.I.S. – Montreal
Guatemala Stove Project
International Development & Relief Foundation (IDRF)
International Justice Mission Canada
JaneFinch ReachingUp
Medical Mercy Canada Society
Opportunity International Canada
Our Place Society
Oxfam Canada
Plan International Canada
The Hunger Project Canada
Save the Children Canada
Social Justice Connection
The 519

Diverse, practical, compassionate

From international justice work to local inclusion projects — you can give to the heart work that means the most to you. Human kindness comes in so many shapes, sizes, policies, and procedures!

Even while we feel the ground shifting beneath us, can we agree to offer the steady hand of respect and support where we are vulnerable? Because we are all vulnerable in one way or another. We need each other to be a non-anxious presence in an anxious world.

We’re here to serve you and your heart cause with excellence, efficiency, and impartiality. Reach out if you’re ready to donate your unused/unwanted car, truck, SUV, van, or motorcycle. The tow is always free, your charity of choice won’t pay a penny, and you’ll receive a tax receipt for the net proceeds of the processing of your vehicle!

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What Oxfam is all about

Vision: A just world without poverty.

Mission: To build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice with a focus on women’s rights.

The challenge: “Be part of building a positive future now. A future where women and girls are free from the injustice of poverty.”

When women’s rights are respected…

…women are healthier, better educated, and better paid.

“One person in three in the world lives in poverty. Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty.”

This charity works to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. They save lives and help rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. Furthermore, they campaign so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global decisions that affect them.

It takes muscle

Empowering women is a community effort. Equality requires education. It requires protection. For this reason, laws must be changed and health tended to.

Your ideas and creativity help. Here at home. Around the world.

Participate in having a conversation. Let’s expand our understanding. What are the issues Canadian women face? What does it mean to be poor in Canada? Notice attitudes and beliefs about gender roles.

Pay attention to the policies and procedures of your own company. What’s happening at your children’s school? Or at the neighborhood pub? Are the women in your life safe?

Similarly, let’s reach beyond our neighbhorhoods and our own country. For instance, educate yourself on women’s issues around the world. Talking about what we learn is an active step in the right direction. As go the roots, so goes the tree. Dip your own roots deep into understanding. After that, allow that knowing to spread, and watch attitudes shift. As attitudes adjust, beliefs change.  Policies and laws change as a result.

Oxfam in cooperation

“Oxfam works with partner organizations and alongside vulnerable women and men to end the injustices that cause poverty.”

Visit the charity’s website or Facebook page to experience a world-expanding view! It’s not a shallow dive. They touch into bigBIG issues that break the heart and challenge beliefs about humanity. In addition, they inspire to consider the part that we each play in shifting the balance of power around the globe.

You will be introduced to survivors and thrivers! Inspiring women. Suffering peoples. Furthermore, you will be invited to offer a practical hand up in so many ways!

Consider this:

Is this the charity for you? Donate your recycle or re-sale ready vehicle. Free tow. Excellent donor support. A monetary gift to Oxfam!

No car to donate today? Visit their Take Action page. Explore ways to champion women’s equality.

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