MLMauction Charities & Causes

At MLMauction, we recognize that there are numerous worthy charities and causes that deserve support.  While we wish we could support them all, we recognize our ability to support the ones we do is directly attributable to your participation in the MLMauction Penny Auctions.  We, and the children we support, are deeply grateful for your support.  As our success permits, we will add more organizations to the list.  The charities we currently support are listed in alphabetical order as follows: 

The MISSION of Dove House is to minimize trauma to child victims of sexual abuse and their non-offending family members by providing a centralized, safe and child-friendly facility from which a multidisciplinary team (MDT) conducts investigation and intervention activities; to advocate for and support child victims and non-offending family members by representing their interest throughout the process, promoting appropriate therapies and making referrals to community resources as needed; and to enhance the process for optimal case resolution.

Working together as a Team from the very beginning of a report of child sexual abuse not only significantly reduces the trauma that children and their families go through, but the multidisciplinary team approach also results in much higher quality investigations, which leads to optimum conditions for effective prosecution of perpetrators against our children. Our District Attorney’s office has averaged an 86% successful prosecution rate of these perpetrators since 2003 – a tremendous improvement over the less than 20% successes prior to Dove House’s existence.

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Palmetto Place Children’s Shelter’s mission is to provide a safe and nurturing emergency shelter bringing together a broad range of services for children who are victims of abuse and neglect.

We are a temporary, safe and caring haven for abused, abandoned and neglected children in the Midlands. The Shelter provides residential care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. At Palmetto Place, we provide medical and mental health care, crisis adjustment/transitional counseling, after school tutoring and recreational and social activities in addition to food, clothing and shelter. Since the Shelter opened in 1977, we have cared for more than 6,700 at-risk children from newborn to age 17. When home is not a safe and loving place, we open our doors and offer each child the opportunity for a better, healthier and more productive future.

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The Indian society is defined by a Hindu caste system that results in discrimination.  It consists of the haves, the have nots, and the untouchables.  Wallowing at the bottom of this system of degradation are the “untouchables.”  They are treated as outcasts.  They are considered impure and suffer constant discrimination.  They receive no government services or support.  No schools, no hope…

An estimated 3,000 of these children are slave children in the rock quarries of Andhra Pradesh, “sold” by their parents as payments for high interest debts.  These boys and girls, 6-18 years of age, are members of the “untouchable” caste and have never attended school.  Until Praveen Chakravarthy did something about it.

Our mission partner in India, Pastor Praveen Chakravarthy, started ministering to these slave children back in 2008.  After years of effort on behalf of the children, in 2011 a door opened for Praveen with sympathetic government officials who gained the release of 250 slave children.  As a result, laws were enforced and the quarry owners were forced to release large numbers of children.  Pastor Praveen and his organization, Sylom Pastor's League, assisted over 500 children to relocate to their villages.  Many children were not able to remember where they lived or their parents did not want them back because they were too poor to care for them.  Pastor Praveen and other pastors took the children into their homes and currently they care for over 400 children in seven different leased homes around Andhra Pradesh.

www.setfreealliance.org

Mission

The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.

Our foremost responsibilities are to the children with catastrophic diseases, their families, and to the donors that have committed their personal resources toward our Mission. To fully meet these responsibilities, we are committed to an explicit set of values. These values are the standards of behavior that we use to guide our daily actions and decisions. We will ensure that these standards of behavior are adhered to through ongoing training of all personnel working at St. Jude, and by annually evaluating the executive leadership, faculty and staff in their adherence to these values.

·          A commitment to provide our patients with the highest quality of medical and supportive care, and their families with the level of information and support necessary for them to make informed decisions and to become active participants in the care of their children.

·          A commitment to respect the ethnic, cultural, religious and lifestyle differences of patients, their families, our colleagues and our supporters.

·          A commitment to our donors that every dollar donated will be wisely spent toward achieving our Mission of advancing cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic disease through research and treatment.

·       Honesty, integrity, and accountability in our actions and decisions.

·        A commitment to social responsibility and institutional citizenship on a local, state, national and global level.

No family ever pays St. Jude for anything.

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Approximately 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to clean water. Our mission is to bring them hope…one village at a time.

Water of Life is an organization dedicated to providing access to clean water to those in need while offering the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A non-profit organization based in Greenville, South Carolina, Water of Life has been sending mission teams around the world into different countries since 2001.

WOL trains and equips teams to serve two purposes: dig the wells which bring fresh water to the community, and offer the clear message of Jesus Christ which brings living water to their hearts.

Our ongoing mission is to connect people who are passionate about providing clean water to impoverished communities. 

Here are just some of Water of Life's achievements since we began in 2007:

·    58 new wells drilled

·    147 wells rehabilitated or repaired

·    120,190 people estimated to be directly affected with access to safe drinking water from WOL wells

·    28 clinics held

·    107 missionaries sent

·    70 new churches planted in Liberia

www.givefreshwater.org