Ahh what a great thread!!
I donated this year to a charity that is very close to my heart. It is called
Child\'s Play and it provides games and books and entertainment to children all over the world who are sick and in the hospital. Having had a younger brother who spent most of his short life in a hospital... I remember the boredom of waiting rooms in hospitals.
So what is it? Basically a few years back and bunch of gamers decided to show that they weren't a generation of people who didn't care. The creators of a webcomic called Penny Arcade set up a small partnership with a local Seattle hospital and their goal was to gather 100 toys from a wish list the hospital had made. They received 100 toys in the first hour... and ever since then it's been expanding. They have 60 hospitals they work with currently and every year it grows.
The hospitals they support are in the US, UK, Canada, and Egypt.
So... if you don't have something like Toys for Tots in your country maybe you should consider this one that helps children all year round as well as Christmas.
