Give a gift that keeps on giving – choose from Christian Aid’s Present Aid
Give to someone you’ve never met via someone you love – a goat to a family in Bolivia for Uncle John, perhaps – by sending a ‘Present Aid’ gift. Present Aid is run by Christian Aid, but other development agencies now run similar schemes.
Present Aid provides a range of gifts to choose from that will make a real difference. Starting at £8, they make ideal gifts for those friends and family members who seem to have everything. The agency receives your donation, and your loved-one receives a card telling them precisely what the money has bought: crutches in Bethlehem, reading glasses and classes in Honduras, ducks in Bangladesh, and so on.
The range of options is such that you can chose something relevant to pretty much anyone you find you’re buying for now.
Related links
Present Aid
World Vision’s Great Gifts
Traidcraft’s Just Gifts
Oxfam Unwrapped
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Liphook, GB , 10 Mar 2009
How can we feed 6 to 9 billion people in a finite world that can only support 3 billion meat eaters?
I believe that encouraging the poor to raise animals for consumption is irresponsible.
Poor people can hardly feed themselves let alone animals as well. Most also live in water stressed areas and cannot afford to give their precious water to animals who get as thirsty as we do. Animal agriculture is also the 2nd or 3rd most damaging contributor to Climate Change and most other environmental problems (see UN FAO report Lifestocks Long Shadow). Finally, according to the World Health Organisation, vegetarian societies are far healthier and live longer.
12 Mar 2009
There are now many charities and organisations that offer the chance to give a gift that lasts. WaterAid do an excellent range in their SH2OP for Life catalogue www.wateraid.org/shopforlife.
Godshill, GB , 13 Mar 2009
Present Aid is excellent – unless it is an animal. Helping others to be dependant on livestock is helping them to increase their carbon footprint.