Buy a GOOD GIFT
How often do you find that you can't think what to give? How often have you given (or been given) something that the recipient doesn't need and doesn't like, which is then quietly hidden away and forgotten, or taken to a charity shop, or given to someone else as a present (which they won't like either)?
So here's a really great alternative: buy a Good Gift which will be donated by a charity to a person or a family or a community in need.
The recipient gets a card with details of the project and a badge to tell them that they are 'Gifted'. They can take pleasure in their gift, which is doing something positive; and they do not need to worry about how to get rid of yet another unwanted and unneeded present. You feel good, and your Good Gift will make a difference to someone's life.
...and make three people happy!
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There are all sorts of occasions when you may need to buy a present: someone's birthday, Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, to celebrate a wedding, as an in memoriam gift for someone who has just died, because you've been promoted, or just because you feel like giving someone something...
Buy a Good Gift from the Good Gifts catalogue for someone as a Christmas or a birthday present.
Once you've done it once, do it again for someone else.
If you're getting married, put Good Gifts on your Wedding List. Everything you're given is sure to be wanted.
There are gifts for all occasions, and for all sorts of people. You can even give your worst enemy a brain cell - for medical research!
The gifts are fun to give and fun to receive. Giving will never be the same with a Good Gift.
Find Out More
The idea of Good Gifts was started by Hilary Blume of the Charities Advisory Trust, and has now been copied by many leading international charities. But the Good Gifts Catalogue remains the most original and the best.
A Good Gift pays for something very specific to happen. All of the cost goes towards helping someone in need.
See the catalogue at: www.goodgifts.org
Find out more about the Charities Advisory Trust and its work from: www.charitiesadvisorytrust.org.uk
A selection of Good Gift ideas:
- Life Cycle: give a bike for a midwife in places like Cambodia and Ethiopia. This will enable her to get around more quickly when she's needed. £35
- Swords into ploughshares: help a village blacksmith turn a Kalashnikov or a tank into farm implements in war-torn Sierra Leone. £25 and up
- Adopt a vegetable, and save it from extinction. £12
- Pedal power in Kigali: give a young Rwandan a bicycle with a pillion seat, and he'll earn an income by giving people rides around the city. £55
- A nomadic camel for a nomadic family, to provide transport, milk and good company as it wanders between Ethiopia and Somalia. £125
- Animals for peace: cows, goats, bees are all given to families to generate more income. The latest good idea is ducks. Four plus starter feed. £15
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Don't give someone something they don't want or need. Get them a Good Gift instead.
Have a look at the Good Gifts catalogue next time you need to give a present. There are lots of great ideas, and you will be sure to find just the right present.
Go to: www.goodgifts.org
