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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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by World Vision
The new Alternative Gift Catalogue for Spring/Summer 2007 from World Vision is bursting with inspirational ideas that can’t fail to make an impression on birthdays, weddings and any other special occasions. You’ll be spoilt for choice with over 70 inspiring and original gifts. What better way to celebrate a new baby than with a birth certificate (£6), offering a Bolivian child a brighter future. Or give your angling mate fish for his 40th birthday (£17). You could also add an extra kick to a couple’s wedding day with a donkey (£51).
World Vision gifts connect people fighting poverty and our work in a community depends on their priorities. People may need your help to grow enough food to eat, improve access to education, healthcare and clean water. Or improve incomes so they can send their children to school. Your gifts will help connect with people who’ll appreciate your help and World Vision work is long term and rooted in the communities and we’ll stay working within a community for up to 15 years working with local staff who know the area.
Once you’ve decided on your gift, you can personalise it even more by creating your own fantastic greetings card online. There’s a choice of 3,000 card designs – something for every kind of celebration. You can even upload your own photos and add new captions to the card.
So take the “donkey work” out of shopping by ordering online at www.greatgifts.org . If you order online before 2pm, your gift will be dispatched within 24 hours (weekend orders sent following Monday). Your life-changing gifts will be well received by friends and family on those special occasions and will improve the lives of people living in poverty around the world. The communities with which we work have requested all the gifts, so you can rest assured they will be well received and make a real difference. So I hope you’ll be inspired to make more than one person’s day with our outstanding range of gifts.
World Vision is one of the world’s leading relief and development agencies, helping over 100 million people in nearly 100 countries in their struggle against poverty, hunger and injustice, irrespective of their religious beliefs. |
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Friday, 21 March 2008 |
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OUR EASTER CHOCOLATE CAMPAIGN The chocolate industry has until July 2008 to deliver on its promises to stop using exploitative child labour on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast. In the next few weeks our action will show the chocolate industry that we will not stop our campaigning until the trafficking of children is stopped. STOP THE TRAFFIK GREAT EASTER EGG HUNT This is an Easter egg hunt with a difference. The best way to know that your Easter egg is traffik free is by buying fair trade chocolate eggs. Hunt out fair-trade Easter eggs in your town. In a traditional egg hunt the eggs are hard to find. Sadly it may be the same with fair-trade eggs. This may be frustrating but we must tell this story so people realize what is going on. Go to every shop & supermarket where you live to hunt out a fair-trade egg. Take a photo of yourself outside the shops where you find a fairly traded Easter Egg. Print off and give the shop manager one of the STOP THE TRAFFIK coupons. And then make your find the talk of the town … 1Upload a photo, put your first name, where you are from & one line saying what it was like onto the www.stopthetraffik.org/easterHunt. 2Fill in this letter and give it to the manager of every shop you visited that didn’t sell a fairly traded Easter Egg. 3To make this story the talk of the town sends your story and photos of your Easter Egg Hunt to your local newspaper/local radio/school newsletter or other community newsletters. You can tell everyone what you found even when Easter has passed. |
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Monday, 24 December 2007 |
Most of us can remember being given our first bicycle - often from under the Christmas tree! Once graduating from training wheels, mum or dad would hold the seat and push you along as you gained more and more confidence. Suddenly, you look back and realise you're on your own. You've mastered riding a bike! Maybe your own children, grandchildren or nieces/nephews are hoping for a new bike this Christmas? They won't be the only ones. Communities in Zambia have asked for bikes for their volunteer health workers. For £54, a bike can be bought for them from World Vision Alternative Giftsg(17057030)a(1392918)) . These health workers won't be the first to benefit from a bike from World Vision Alternative Gifts. Antonia Tchilombo from Angola received her own bike last year. Antonia, 33 years old, is a female health worker in the Huambo Province of Angola, Southern Africa. Huambo Province is home to a huge population of people, many who were displaced by the 27-year civil war, which ended in 2002. World Vision is working with local communities there to improve the health of families, particularly children under 5 years of age. Bikes are making a life-changing difference here. Thanks to World Vision Alternative Gift supporters, fifty bikes were purchased for health workers and traditional birth attendants to be able to reach remote villages. These individuals are all local volunteers and are chosen by their communities. This means they are the best people to educate and raise awareness of health problems as they are well respected and understand their communities' needs. After receiving her bike, Antonia said, “I thank World Vision for the provision of this bicycle. It will help me reach many more families and bring about a change in the health of our communities. I like being able to meet new people and gain new experiences, and at the same time help make people's lives better in my community.” According to World Vision staff on the ground, Antonia is hard working and committed to her job help people who do not know how to prevent diseases in their communities. Just in the last year, there was a cholera epidemic in the region and she taught people how to recognise the symptoms of cholera and how to prevent it spreading. A bike (£54) is not the only life-changing gift that you can buy from World Vision Alternative Gifts this Christmas however. With 79 gifts from £5, you can choose from gifts like school textbooks(£6), child vaccinations (£20) and a llama (£45). More news... |
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