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Welcome to Charity Begins, a non-profit organization that helps socially-conscious travelers benefit the communities they’re visiting.
Started in November 2006, Charity Begins delivers school supplies, shoes, and clothing to orphanages, schools, refugee camps, and women’s shelters throughout the world. By making these deliveries via vacationers, business travelers, backpackers, and other independent travelers, the cost of shipping is eliminated and 100% of every dollar goes to helping people living in poverty.
How it Works
You tell us when you’re traveling to a developing country, and we’ll do the rest.
We’ll research your destination, identify a local non-profit, collect the needed supplies, deliver them to your door, and arrange for you to meet the non-profit upon arrival so you can deliver the supplies. We’ll even give you disposable piece of luggage you can leave behind. It’s that easy and it's FREE! There is no extra charge for checked baggage on most international flights.
Resources To volunteer as a traveller, click here.
To donate supplies, click here.
To add a non-profit to our data-base, click here.
A list of developing countries can be found here.
Charity Begins can be contacted at CharityBeginsInfo@Gmail.com.
Thanks to Soles4Souls.org, CharityBegins was able to deliver shoes to
children in Peru (top row photos), and porters and guides in Nepal (bottom row photos).