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Gifts that keep on giving

16-03-2021

2021

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Want to give a gift that will really make a difference? Consider giving to charity on behalf of your loved ones and see the benefits spread far and wide. Good Health; issue 1212; p164 - 166; Text Available

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caption165 goodalternatives. CREATE Every November, online giving network Give Now publishes a Good Gifts Guide. Past gifts have included a book of photographs in honour of Black Saturday victims and preserves made by people with a disability. www.givenow.com.au FEED The FEED project began in 2006 when activist Lauren Bush designed a bag to benefi t the School Feeding Program run by the United Nations. Purchase her fashionable 100 per cent cotton burlap FEED 1 Bag, $80, and you’ll provide school meals for one child for one year. Everything in the FEED shop is eco-friendly and produced with fair labour. www.feedprojects.com GO The Kindred Gifts website offers a collection of eco-friendly, charitable gifts, and has big-name fans such as Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep. For a feminine fi nd, the Same Sky Glass Beaded Bracelets, $219 each, are handmade by women in Rwanda who survived the 1994 genocide. The tiny, hand-blown glass beads are crocheted together and are delicately beautiful. Your purchase directly supports these artisan cooperatives. www.kindredgifts.com.au CULTIVATE Thrill friends and family with innovative, charitable gifts from the Karma Currency Foundation. Purchase a charitable voucher so the recipient can choose their cause or select from one thousand gifts divided into categories for mum, granny or the kids. Check out their popular Gift Registry – Wills and Kate used it for their royal wedding. www.karmacurrency.com.au BUY TEAR Australia offers useful gifts for Christmas that help fi ght poverty If you’re mulling over what to give friends and family this Christmas, it could be a shock to discover that aussies received 19 million unwanted gifts during the 2010 festive season. Despite this gift-giving lottery, playing scrooge isn’t an option as science suggests giving is good for you. to reap the benefi ts of giving at Christmas – and avoid inevitable unwanted presen

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caption166 long-term. Buy a goat for $50, a great source of meat, milk and cheese for families. www.usefulgifts.org ADOPT AN A cute, charitable gift idea for children, choose from a tiger, turtle, orangutan or pygmy elephant and your child will receive a soft toy, adoption pack and updates from the fi eld for $15 a month. www.wwf.org.au. SUPPORT Tick off your entire Christmas list at the Oxfam Shop and help support Fair Trade. “Fair Trade empowers disadvantaged communities by paying fair prices for their work and giving access to world markets,” says Oxfam Australia’s marketing director Sara Pelvin. One click and you can buy handmade toys, home furnishings, coffee and chocolate from indigenous artisans here and around the world. www.oxfamshop.org.au WATCH YOUR Visit the Oxfam Unwrapped website and choose from 44 useful gifts such as school breakfasts for needy children for $20, a fi shing net for $50, or a farm package for $114, including two ducks, a pig and a goat. It includes a fun gift card with captions like, ‘I found you a gift that can feed a village in India’. And the best part? You can watch your gift in action in the community on YouTube. www.oxfamunwrapped.com.au PLAY The Smith Family helps disadvantaged Australian children to get the most out of their education. Check out their Joyspreader Gifts and buy a gift pack for disadvantaged kids to open on Christmas day. During the year you can support their Ready, Brekkie, Go initiative, which provides nutritious breakfasts to disadvantaged school children, together with mentoring. www.thesmithfamily.com.au PROTECT UNICEF works to protect the rights of children and is the world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries. On the UNICEF website you can buy measles vaccine for $27 and protect 100 disadvantaged children. Just click on their Christmas charity gifts link. www.unicef.org.au SPONSOR Why not sponsor a Worl