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Stuck for the Perfect Gift? Buy a Donkey!
Why not buy a goat or maybe an animal care kit? At Oxfam Unwrapped, your gift could also be used to fund the livestock most appropriate to the individual community, depending on their circumstances and local environment. If you buy a toilet or safe water, your gift could also be used to fund other items and services related to the provision of clean water and sanitation.
Other gifts, such as; teaching a teacher, textbooks, school desks and chairs, girls’ clubs , kitting out a teacher, renovating a classroom and school dinners may also be used to support other educational work, including adult literacy classes.
How Your Gift Works
All the gifts at www.OxfamUnwrapped.com are needed. The people Oxfam work with around the world tell them what items they need to make the biggest difference in working themselves out of poverty. Oxfam responds flexibly to varying needs across the world as they occur. So in some cases what they will have shown is an example, but they will always spend your money on a related item. This approach means that the communities they work with can use items that are most appropriate to their needs at that time – maximizing the chances of beating poverty and suffering.
Here are just a few awesome gift ideas:
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Looking for a potty pressie idea? Buy a toilet! You don't need to be flush to treat someone to lovely loos. Installed by experts, they prevent disease from spreading. The writing's on the wall for cholera and typhoid!
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Forget computer-based learning, millions of children (and their teachers!) around the world would be happy with a book or two… or twelve or forty.
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Dirty water kills. More than 25,000 people die every day because of water-borne disease. With water filters, tap stands and tanks to supply water to 1,000 people a day, Oxfam have the solution that saves lives. Give the gift of safe water.
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Nothing can replace the loss of a parent or family, but youth club projects around the world help to give children a sense of normality and the ability to fend for themselves. This gift will give orphaned and vulnerable youngsters life-skills, food and friendship.
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Your gift can make a difference
If you buy counselling sessions, HIV awareness events, essential medicines, training a health worker, radios, helping an orphan/vulnerable child, condom kits, home-based care or mosquito nets, Oxfam may also use your money to fund other essential work protecting people’s health.
Buy gifts of tree planting, fertiliser, tools, irrigation, an allotment or food growing pack, and you could also help to provide seeds, crops and the tools and training to cultivate them.
Your gift of fishing nets, alpaca package, training a farmer, a market stall, a farm to market make-over, mango saplings, a plot of farming land, a livelihood for a village or starting a small business may also be used to support other initiatives that give people the chance to earn a living, designed to offer a sustainable income to those who need it most.
See the benefits
Rwanda
Over 10,000 women and young people in northern Rwanda have benefited from Oxfam Unwrapped beehives and training. Women now have the skills and knowledge to keep bees for honey production - an area previously dominated by men. The Oxfam Unwrapped 'Feed A Family' gift has also provided food to 2,172 households in the Eastern region of Rwanda.
Brazil
Brazilian families have been given water filters from Oxfam Unwrapped to help prevent water borne diseases such as diarrhoea.
Indonesia
Shelter kits, water filters and buckets were given to families in Nabire, Indonesia following two huge earthquakes in November 2004. These gifts save lives in emergency situations, helping to stave off the threat of disease by ensuring people have access to shelter and clean water.
Poverty can and must be overcome
Visit www.oxfamunwrapped.com
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