Are you feeling Charitable this Christmas?

Christmas is a festival of JOY! Christmas is celebrated on 25^th December each year as the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ, the savior of the world, the son of God. Christians as well as non-Christians celebrate Christmas in most countries across the globe. It is synonymous to celebration of joy and festivities with near and dear ones in every place.

In most countries, the last week of December is holiday season in most countries where people celebrate the festival with friends and family at home or travelling to different part of the globe, and many expats go back home during this time to celebrate the festival in their home country. While Christmas is a celebration, a number of people go through the blues during the chill of winter, as they may not have any one to celebrate it with or enough funds to celebrate it.

A very important or integral part of Christmas is gifts. Gifts to spread the joy of the festival and make everybody’s Christmas a merry one. However, there are many who do not have near and dear ones to share the joy of the festival with them, which gives rise to another important part of Christmas, being charitable and spreading the love and your good fortune with ones who are blessed with lesser on the financial and family front.

There is very famous saying, which makes us realize that being Christian is about being helpful and charitable. There are various campaigns which allows one to be charitable and gift the less fortunate ones at the click of a button. 

UNICEF is running a gift for charity Christmas campaign, that allows an individual to donate money for a cause they wish, which may be weighing scales to check underweight kids weight regularly, packets for therapeutic food for children, pencils for education for children, or even 200 polio vaccinations. UNICEF in return will send a gift card acknowledging your good deed.

For those who want to give something with their own hands or be a part of the process and spend time with the less fortunate while spreading the joy, there are the traditional old age homes, orphanages, spastic societies and numerous other places as well as NGO’s who from time to time not only require regular supplies like clothes, medicines, food supplies, blankets, Diapers for kids and aged individuals, Writing supplies for children etc.  These institutes also welcome individuals to come and celebrate the festivities with individuals living in the NGO’s, helping one feel charitable as well as spreading joy while Christmas. There are numerous ways in which, an individual can spread the joy of this festival as well as be charitable. No small good deed goes unnoticed, it always gives immense happiness to give, even if it is the begger down the street or the housemaid who works endless hours each days at your home to keep your home functional or for the matter the old man who comes to collect garbage.

The sky is the limit, there are various ways in which one can spread the joy, and lead to boundless happiness in others lives along their own. The question is : are you feeling charitable this Christmas?