Best Christmas Gift Ever!

I don’t know about you, but finding the best way to sneak a few moments of meaning into this wonderful but chaotic season is almost impossible.

Decorations and finals

…and concerts and parties

…and shopping and travel

…and my parents and YOUR parents…!

It’s no wonder many of us can’t find time to appreciate the simple quiet at the center of all the noise.

For those of you who rank Linus’s speech from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in your top 5, you may be looking for a better way to connect to the true spirit of Christmas with your family.

One way, of course, is through giving. But these days it’s so hard to know if your hard-earned dollars are being put to good use. If only there were a way to actually see with your own eyes exactly how your gift helps real people.

We recently found a way to do just that through DonorSee.

DonorSee connects supporters with experienced people on the ground in less fortunate parts of the world to create opportunities for help.

But here’s the special sauce:

Rather than collecting miscellaneous funds from donors and telling them how many rice bowls they bought, DonorSee shares videos with the specific needs of actual people who will be getting your individual support directly. You can search for people in need by country or by type of need, such as medical, infant, or shelter. Some projects are big like building a school or small like building a well or buying an irrigation system or seed for a farmer. You can fund a project by yourself or pitch in with others.

The Best Part: You actually SEE the people in need….TWICE. Once on the front end, where the project video introduces you to the people – children or women or teachers – who appear to help explain the situation. Then again when the project is completed, they send a follow up video with an update and a personalized thank you. YOU. Specifically.

In our family, we sat around the table and picked a project together. Each kid had a say. Together we chose to help pay for an artificial leg for a 6-year old girl in Tanzania who lost her leg in a domestic violence attack.

Several months later we got an update with a video of Nasra smiling, raking, and playing word games.

SEEing the smile on the real person whose life was changed by a decision our kids made was better than any gift I bought or received that year. By a mile.

“…And that’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown”

Teach your kids how big an impact they can have on someone’s life.

Do your Christmas shopping here: https://donorsee.com/

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Best Christmas Gift Ever!