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Each year, about half a million Lithuanians give up to 2% of their income tax to non-profits, which amounts to millions of euros. While tax authorities can track who gets the money, they hardly ever scrutinize if it is used for its intended purpose. Occasional inspections reveal, however, that somet...

More than 70,000 requests for tax redirections to various charities, non-profits and nongovernmental organisations have been submitted in Lithuania this year. According to the State Tax Inspectorate (VMI), the number of requests and recipients has been growing every year.

During a two-day Food Bank collection, the food-based charity collected more than €300,000 worth of food products, which has set a new record for collections held during the spring.

The law on political campaign financing, adopted in 2011, bans politicians from accepting donations from corporate entities, although they can still accept support from individuals. However, politicians can bypass the rules and campaign through charity funds, Lietuvos Žinios reports.

The Lithuanian Riflemen's Union has bought blood processing equipment from donations to fund new equipment for a blood centre located in the Ukrainian Donetsk region.

On Wednesday, the Radisson Blue Astoria in Vilnius hosted the final part of the International Christmas Charity Bazaar organised by the International Women's Association of Vilnius.

On 5 December, the Christmas Charity Fair in Vilnius will be organised in the Vilnius Town Hall to benefit some of the most vulnerable in society. The International Women's Association of Vilnius celebrates this year the thirteenth edition of the charity fair.

Proudly transitioning from an aid receiver to an affluent Western society, Lithuania has yet to live up to its commitments of financial help to the world's poorest.

Ireland's Lithuanian community raised over EUR 8,000 during a charity event that will be donated for cancer treatment of kids in Lithuania.

Refuting the myth that Lithuanian expatriates in the United Kingdom care little about social problems at their home country, some members of the Lithuanian community wish to bring focus on what they think is the biggest social sore in Lithuania, suicide.

To help Lithuanian women, Sarah Hunt, wife of David Hunt, the British Ambassador to Lithuania, assists the International Women‘s Association of Vilnius (IWAV) with the organisation of the charity auction at the annual Blossom of Hope event, which will take place on May 30th 2015 at the Merchant’s Cl...

“Hope Run 2015” in Klaipėda was dedicated to the memory of the first British ambassador to independent Lithuania Michael Peart.

The International Women’s Association of Vilnius (IWAV) mixes charity with a twist of James Bond, in order to help Lithuanian women fighting breast cancer.

Lithuania will deliver a shipment of humanitarian aid worth EUR 83,532 in response to the appeal of the Head of the European Commission DG for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, Lithuania's MFA said.

Lithuania's Defense Minister Juozas Olekas on Friday met with Ukrainian soldiers undergoing treatment in the southern resort of Druskininkai, the ministry said.

Humanitarian aid, collected by the Lithuanian charity organization Caritas, is being distributed in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk, the Catholic organization said on Tuesday.

Seven Ukrainian soldiers will arrive in Lithuania soon to undergo medical treatment, the Baltic country's Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said on Wednesday.

On Sunday, 28 December, the traditional Christmas charity evening was held in Kaunas Town Hall. It was the 25th Christmas charity event.

Supplies bought for the money raised at a Vilnius art auction in December should reach Ukrainian troops by the New Year, the organizers say.

A camp for children from Eastern Ukraine who have been directly affected by the war will be organized in Vilnius in January.