Don't donate to those telly ads misty. They're just grief porn designed to tug at your heart strings. 95% (my reckoning, no link supporting that figure, soz) of telly donations go to making the vids and funding the high rolling executives at the top of the chain and very little gets to the needy. Support local charities. Soup kitchens and charity shops run by volunteers supporting local animal sanctuaries or homeless shelters. We are no longer a thriving country and we need to direct our charity toward our own people around us. Even food banks are dodgy. I started world war 3 with a
witch on a site where you review items, including food. She was reviewing food from three boxes of food her mum had got her from the foodbank she works at !!! ... while also reviewing the hotel she stayed at in the Maldives the previous month and the big name theme park she'd taken her kids to for the weekend.
I blew up and went ballistic at her for daring taking from a food bank. Told her that if I knew where she lived I'd report her and her mother for abusing the food bank. I'm still raging thinking about it yet, grrrr.
Fucked me right off.
Sorry, off topic, but it's my pet hate. SUPPORT LOCAL, and you see where it goes.