Why is there a PayPal charges?

We understand your concern of the charges - we would too!

Basically, PayPal is our payment gateway, once donations are made by Credit Card sometimes PayPal perform a USD 1 transaction to validate a card. This transaction wont be deducted from the donors card its just a validation. If you don't mind to check your credit card statement, if the USD 1 appears in your statement, just let us know - and we will check from our end and verify with PayPal.

We apologies fro any inconvenient cause which we are about to implement a brand new custom donor gateway which provide safe a secure way for people to donate Via SimplyGiving.com without using third party like PayPal (which always be and option if preferred).