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>> CharityNavigator.org - Find Out Where Your Donations Really End Up!

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Hello dear readers! N ice to see you back on IBreakTheNews.com .  🙂 If you want to make the world a better place, it can seem like an overwhelming task! 🤔 One way to go about it, is to make a donation to a charity (online or in person) that is supporting a matter close to your heart or a cause you believe in.  But with so many charities worldwide, which is the most trustworthy one? Where do your dollars, euros, pounds etc. make the biggest impact? You do not want to donate your hard earned cash just so the charity founder can buy a new car and the people in crisis regions still have nothing to eat.. You want to help and make an actual difference! You want to support a charity that is in fact building hospitals and feeding people in war zones, uncovering injustices or saving animals where laws do not protect them. This is why CharityNavigator.org might be a useful tool to you! There, you can find a list of all registered charities including a rating of ...

>> Food Waste - Step In The Right Direction: TESCO Is Going To Donate Unsold Food To Charity

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For a new initiative TESCO announced that  it is committed to ZERO food wastage in its stores by the end of 2017 . The plan is to support  5,000 local charities and groups, instead of sending tons and tons of food to the bin. A recently published report shows, that an unbelievable   55,400 tonnes of food were allegedly thrown away at Tesco stores across the United Kingdom in 2015 .  Because I have read a similar news story a while ago in my home country, I did some research about this topic and found out that about  18 million tonnes of food produced in Germany are going to the bin yearly. How is it possible, that in 2016 this is happening? Is the world getting better, are we improving based on progress in technology and logistics or is it actually getting worse because of carelessness and ignorance? Where is the disruption app for this.. Unfortunately I can not pack it all up personally and send it to the countries where peopl...

>> Adorable Idea: IKEA Turned Children's Drawings Into Super Cute And Unique Plush Toys!

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IKEA has done it once again. For their annual fundraiser ' Soft Toys For Education ', the Swedish furniture giant took some adorable monster drawings by children and turned them into real-life, touchable plush toys.  Since their first charity effort of this kind in 2003, the Ikea Foundation has donated more than $90 million to worldwide children's causes to date. The young designers behind these colorful creations, definitely put all of their imagination and heart into the original drawings. The 10 winning entries, have been brought to life by IKEA's toy designers, with much love to detail. From each plush toy sold, Ikea will donate 1 Euro to Children's education projects via UNICEF and Save The Children .   all images  ©   IKEA