If you are looking for a decent secular charity, please accept my invitation to join the Kiva microfinance website: http://kiva.org/invitedby/erroll2505
For just $25 (which you can pay via Paypal or a major credit card), you can help funding a loan to worthy individuals and groups almost anywhere in the third world. Once the loan has been repaid, you can relend the funds - it's truly a gift that keeps giving.
You also have the option of joining community groups within Kiva in order to show that you support the interests of that particular community. Not surprisingly, the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers community (my chosen group) is leading the donations this month, like most months.
Please note that I am not suggesting that Kiva is the answer to alleviating suffering or poverty in the third world. The people that receive loans through Kiva pay interest (not to Kiva lenders but to the organizations that administer the loans) and often at rates much higher than what we are paying in North America. That being said, Kiva makes seed financing available to many people/groups who would not be able to borrow money but for Kiva.
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