Are smartphones stealing your time from meaningful relationships? Is endless scrolling breaking your focus? Are gambling or online shopping habits causing concern? These behaviours are linked to dopamine, an important hormone produced by our bodies that affects emotions, behaviour, and movement by regulating feelings of pleasure, satisfaction, and motivation. Our modern devices stimulate dopamine production, leading us to crave more. At the International Blue Cross, we see how these and other behaviours – including alcohol and other drug use – impact youth, families, and entire communities.
We believe in fostering healthy behaviours for everyone. Through skills development, practice, and support programmes, we empower individuals to choose and cultivate health-promoting habits and discover life’s better alternatives.
But we can’t do this alone – we need your help to reach those in need. We work in some of the most vulnerable contexts in the world, where our services are often the only realistic support for those living in multidimensional poverty.
This Giving Tuesday, make a difference by donating to the International Blue Cross. Together, we can foster healthier choices, stronger relationships, and brighter futures.
Your support changes lives. Donate today!
