How Your Christmas Shopping Can Help Victims of Human Trafficking
With Black Friday less than a week away, we'd like to let you know of a great way you can help Magdalene Hope in the fight against human trafficking.
If you plan to shop online- not just during Christmas, but year round- through Amazon, simply use their alternate URL: www.Smile.Amazon.com and sign-in to your account like usual. When you pay for your purchases, you can select the organization of your choice, and Amazon donates 0.5% to that organization.
It does not add to your purchase total, asking if you wanted to donate anything extra. The company itself decides to donate from their own funds, to Magdalene Hope, at your request.
Check out what Business Insider says about this feature:
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If you're not already using AmazonSmile when you shop, you should start right now.
Smile gives Amazon shoppers a way to donate a small percentage of their purchases to almost any charity they want. Once you sign up at smile.amazon.com and choose a charity, 0.5% of your eligible purchases will be donated.
There are nearly one million charities available to choose from, with more getting added every day, and hundreds of thousands of products qualify (you'll see an "Eligible for AmazonSmile donation" badge near the "Add to shopping cart").
The service doesn't cost anything to the charities that sign up or the shopper (for that reason, donations are not tax deductible). All you have to do is start your shopping at smile.amazon.com.
Even though .5% isn't a lot on each purchase, everyone should sign up for Smile because giving something is always better than nothing.
In its annual tally of our insane holiday shopping, Amazon reported that 16 times more Amazon customers shopped on smile.amazon.com than last year, and the company has donated millions of dollars since it launched the program in October 2013.
