Looking for thoughtful gift ideas for the people on your list who want to make a difference? CARE Canada has more than a few ways to shop for a cause and help take action this holiday season.
A registered charity committed to ending poverty around the world, with a focus on women and girls, CARE Canada currently supports 50 projects and initiatives in 30 countries. And through the CARE Gifts program, featuring symbolic gifts, you can make a donation in the name of a giftee to support the organization’s important work, and they’ll receive a digital or printed card that explains the gift and its impact.
You can choose from over 40 unique gift ideas, each a meaningful example of how CARE Canada supports women and families around the world and works to advance women’s leadership. Read on for our shortlist of 10 gifts that make a difference.
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This gift ($200) can help provide a family with essentials like food, medical care, blankets, heaters and fuel for heating. For an extra $50, you can add six additional blankets to help keep them warm through winter.
Support families facing climate and other emergencies, and those who are temporarily displaced, with a shelter repair kit ($195), which includes building materials like nails, tools and roofing that can keep them protected from the elements.
During a crisis, women and girls often have trouble accessing much-needed hygiene products. This emergency hygiene kit ($50) provides essentials like sanitary pads, napkins, soap, detergent and more.
This gift ($75) provides clean and safe water to a family, where they need it. In some countries, women and children can spend hours walking every day to find and collect water for their households. With water available close by, they can find more time to attend school or earn an income.
For just $20, you can provide some baby chicks to a family, which can provide valuable eggs. To add to the menagerie, you could also gift two chickens or a pair of ducks.
Climate change is impacting food security globally. This simple yet important gift ($40) gives farmers in developing countries much-needed drought-resistant seeds like sorghum, maize and other vegetables, which can provide both food and a source of income.
Access to fresh, healthy food can be a challenge in some communities. With the gift of a kitchen garden ($195), you can help provide the tools, seeds and training necessary to grow vegetables.
Infants have specific needs that can be hard to meet in an emergency situation. This specialty care kit ($50) provides a month’s worth of essentials, like diapers, soap and skin cream, to families who have been displaced.
This gift ($120) helps CARE Canada quickly get humanitarian aid to wherever it’s needed most around the world. Current emergencies include the Morocco earthquake, the crises in East Africa and more.
