Use Your Tax Return to Save the World
March 14, 2009 by Lela Davidson
Filed under Finance
Christian Children’s Fund is encouraging you to spend a portion of your tax return to sponsor a child in a developing country for a year. Sponsorship leads to sustainable communities all over the world. An estimated 2 billion people live in poverty.
$288 is all it takes to help one child can grow up to become a leader in his or her community to bring lasting and positive change. According to the Christian Children’s Fund (CCF) the average tax returns in the United States is $2,200.
In addition to $288 to sponsor one child, CCF offers donors a chance to buy gifts for communities. For example, $6 can buy cough medicine for a child in Honduras; $10 can buy a duck for a family in Timor-Leste; $14 can provide an art kit for a child in Angola; and $36 can purchase a goat for a family in Zambia. Hundreds of gifts are available up to $5,300 apiece.
And don’t forget – donations to CCF are tax deductible. That’ll come in handy next year.
