It’s Christmas day 😀

Time to open up your presents if you haven’t on Christmas Eve, and time for me to reflect on people who are less fortunate and deserve all the help they can get.

This is something that is very important to me, I support a couple charities with occasional small gestures, or donations if I’m able. I don’t usually share online when I do so, but I think it should be spread because you never know, someone reading might be encouraged to help however it’s possible for them to.

For Christmas this year, since mostly this holiday is about kids, I chose two charities that work hard to help children in need. I am a frequent flyer member of two airlines that make it available to donate the miles you acquire after your trips, and even though I didn’t have too many, I always think that even the smallest action could end up being meaningful to someone, somewhere.

Air France allowed me to donate all of the miles I had acquired, to UNICEF – 7,634 Miles-Prime to 0 for me ! Unfortunately Lufthansa has a stricter miles donation program, and it has to be either 5,000 / 10,000 or 20,000. Thankfully I had a little over 10k miles so I was able to donate 10,000 to SOS Children’s Village. Those miles will now sponsor 18 children in the town of Nhlangano, Swaziland with medical care.

Donating your miles doesn’t cost anything. If it happens that you have some and don’t know what good you could do with them, this is a nice gesture especially in time for Christmas, season of giving back. In the past, I used to keep my miles to upgrade for a better seat on long-haul flights, I know some people who keep theirs to order material things from the airlines’ online stores;

When I found out about the miles donation programs, it didn’t matter  to me anymore, what type of seat I could upgrade for on an intercontinental flight… and I am not really like Madonna, a “Material Girl” 🙂 so the choice was easily made. I hope this post will inspire you to help someone in need, it doesn’t have to be a donation, anything helpful is usually welcome and being selfless brings positiveness.

I am really glad there is something like this I could use my miles for, and I will for sure in the future always donate all the miles I possibly can. I wish a beautiful Christmas to all of you, enjoy this holiday !

The official sites for UNICEF and SOS Children’s Villages