This thought is not about money, but rather about Humaness, Kindness and Awareness towards other Beings, so let's see if we can just HelpOneBeingADay, in any way.

This is  the brain child of aspirations to make this life a little less distracted, a little more naturally empathic towards other Beings which ever way we are able to perceive them , human, animals and perhaps others too ...
There is no need to look for monetary gifts, which are surely useful but often out of reach

Yet a smile, a hand given out, a kind word, patience extended, food offered, something we make, have , do not use, can pass on , these are all opportunities which we all have .

This can be for Human beings, but also for our friends the animals, at least these two kind of beings are known to every one! An insect that would drown, be squashed, requires food or water, need shelter, every gesture of Awareness is one instant removed from distraction, times where we loose ourselves.

And when we loose ourselves in mundane, distracted activities, we certainly loose our precious human life too!
So I created a face book page whichyou can find  at http://ow.ly/RMau and there soon will be a squidoo page for the same purpose .

So how does this affect you ? In the search for happiness, we rarely realise that it is in helping others that we find Peace and success. Shantideva,  the famous 8th century Indian Pandit wrote in his Ways of the Bodhisattva that all happiness comes from taking care of others, all misery from focusing on oneself.

Those pages have arisen from aspirations and hopefully will evolve as others will start contributing to them . Pictures of what happened to you each day, videos, Audios, Links you have found inspiring, stories of someone or a pet who needs help you personally may not be able to give but can bring to others attention, things we do not require and can pass on to others as we did a few days ago with the Rucksacks for the homeless and the story about feeding the 5000 in London .

There is no small act, there is nothing which prevents a smile or a hug, even if one is also personally not well off, which canno tbe offered, at least once a day.

So here the modest foundations to join, share and naturally extend refuge, the basic nature compassionate nature of pure awareness we all share...