I just bought someone a pair of chickens, and bought someone else a mosquito net. There are all kinds of cool things you can buy for poverty-stricken people all around the world (Africa, India, etc.), ranging from AU$5 to AU$5000. (Note: The exchange rate is currently very close to even, with 1AUD equal to about .95USD)

I love to shop online, and I love to donate to charity, so shopping for charity was super fun and now I feel all happy to know that someone, somewhere has a supply of eggs now, and someone (possibly an entire family) is going to be that much less likely to contract malaria.

You can purchase school supplies, stoves, tree seedlings, mosquito nets, goats, toilets, HIV awareness plans, fund a literacy program or a women's self help group and other interesting things. I really recommend people check it out. It's a fun way to send tangible healing and help to people who really need it.

(Oh, and before anyone is concerned, the charity group is Christian, but they do absolutely ZERO evangelism. None. Nada. They save their evangelism for churches and other Christians, trying to get them to donate to the cause. They do this charity work because they just plain believe it's the right thing to do, and I agree. It is. And it's fun to buy chickens and goats for people, yeah?)