Gift Scheme
If you choose to give a gift, this means that your money will also be used to fund livestock projects and other ways of helping people to earn a living. If you choose a latrine, this means your money will also go to fund vital health and sanitation projects, saving many lives.
Whilst we will provide thousands of the gifts described, we don’t promise we will only buy goats, blankets, latrines or pencils – but we do promise that your money will be spent on work in those areas.
Whatever gifts you buy, you are helping to transform the lives of people in the developing world.
A School starter Kit
Gift Price £7.00
Many children in developing countries cannot go to school for lack of simple items such as a uniform, pencils and exercise books. This kit provides what is needed to get disadvantaged Children/young people into the classroom and out of poverty. Your gift will get to children in some of the world’s poorest countries and give them the chance to shine!
Give a latrine
Gift Price £25. 00
This gift gives the materials and advice to build a practical, hygienic pit latrine – the perfect way to stop the spread of deadly diseases like cholera and typhoid and keep whole communities safe and well. This will be one of the most talked about gifts you can give this Christmas.
Give a Vegetable Plot
Gift Price £25. 00
Give a family the chance to grow their own veg and they’ll reap so many more benefits. As well as a source of healthy food for themselves, any surplus crops can be sold to buy clothes, medicines or pay school fees.
Your gift of seeds, tools and horticultural training will help a family to provide for themselves.
Give Hope in Fighting HIV
Gift Price £18. 00
Up to 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV and AIDS, with devastating consequences for themselves, their children, families and communities.
And 95% of HIV and AIDS cases are in the developing world where poverty makes coping with the disease even harder.
Your gift will help pay for education and awareness raising programmes in the fight against this deadly virus, and bring practical support in the form of food and medicine to those living with HIV and AIDS.
Give a Goat
Gift Price £25. 00
Who’s got your goat?
Whoever gets your goat will get far more than they bargained for because every goat that’s given to someone living in the developing world has the potential to provide up to 12 pints of milk a week to drink or sell. It will be a free source of fertiliser to help crops grow and, ultimately, result in more goats!
Give emergency home basics kits
Gift Price £30.00
When you've lost everything you've ever owned and haven't even got the basics that will enable you to collect water, cook, eat or even sleep in comfort, this gift is a true lifeline.
It will give a refugee or displaced family the essential items they need to set up a new home including pots, pans, soap, cutlery and blankets.
Give Clean Water
gift Price £30.00
Water is life
None of us can survive without it, but for people in some of the poorest countries in the world, sources of water can be a gruelling trek away or contaminated with deadly disease.
This gift will bring a clean, fresh and reliable source of water right to the heart of a village. Crops and livestock will also soak up the benefits!
Give a woman her own business
Gift Price £50.00
For anyone who's ever fancied a partnership in someone else's business, here's their chance.
This gift of gift will offer opportunities for skills training and education and unlock the potential of a hard-working woman and will help them to set up their own small businesses. Weaving, baking, honey collecting or computing, the opportunities are endless.
And the extra income she earns will mean food, clothes, medicine and an education for her children will suddenly be within reach.
Give Tools to a Farming Family
Gift Price £15.00
Give them the tools...
In conflicts around the world, thousands of families have been driven away from their homes and land, and precious crops have withered and died.
This gift will provide farmers with hoes, spades, rakes and other tools to work their land and rebuild their lives.
Give a Child Soldier a new life
Gift Price £65.00
Every childhood is precious but for those who've been forced into becoming child soldiers, the horror of what they experienced can scar them for life.
This amazing gift provides food, shelter, skills training, trauma counseling and sports therapy for ex-child soldiers, and ultimately, aims to reunite them with their family.
Give training to midwife and community health worker
Community Health Education
Gift Price £172.00
No one ever said having a baby was easy. But when they live miles away from any expert medical support, poor sanitation and disease can put mums and newborn babies at risk.
This gift package will help train a local locals to be a traditional birth attendant, in community health work, and provide them with the hygienic kit they need to bring more babies into the world, safe and well.
Give an Education Teach a teacher
Gift Price £450.00
We all know education can be the key to helping break the cycle of poverty. But sometimes it's just as important to send a teacher back to school.
This inspiring gift trains a teacher in modern teaching techniques as well as providing them with tables, chairs, teachers' handbooks and guides that they need for their classrooms.
And of course, their pupils benefit too as they will leave school better educated and better equipped for a life free of poverty. Ten out of ten for effort we say!
Life saving medicines
Gift Price £500.00
Give Health
Millions of displaced people or refugees are living in appallingly overcrowded camps. They have little food, little shelter and disease is rife.
Weak and malnourished, their resistance to even the most ordinary disease is incredibly low.
This is your chance to make a very big difference because this gift provides a clinic with a month's supply of medicine to treat refugees at one camp and give them the strength to get well again.
A decent place to live
Gift Price: £2, 500
Shanty towns with shacks made of cardboard and string; mud houses perched on remote rural hillsides that let in the cold and rain; city slums with no sanitation where diseases can breed – decent housing is a right that is denied to millions of our neighbours around the world.
Your gift can pay for timber and nails, tiles and bricks, windows and doors, plumbing and sanitation, as well as construction know-how and essential tools to build decent homes for families and communities.