CONCERN Worldwide is offering a number of gifts this Christmas that can change the lives of people living in extreme poverty.
Each Concern Gift has been carefully chosen to save and change lives long into the future.
Gifts come in all shapes and sizes with prices to suit everyone. You could fulfil a family’s wish for 10 banana plants for as little as
?¬50. These fruitful plants will yield enough bananas for a family to eat and any left overs can be sold at a local market.
Rabbits multiply fast and you can start a family on a more prosperous path by buying three for just
?¬12 from Concern. Soon those three rabbits will become 33! The income they bring will help a family feed, clothe and educate their own little ones.
An exciting new gift from Concern this year is the family’s first farmyard. This gift costs e114 and includes a cow, a goat, a piglet and some chickens which can help give a farming family a diverse diet and enough nutritious produce to sell or trade at the market.
Companies can also help. By donating some, or all, of their Christmas gift budget to Concern, they will be sending a message of hope to people in the world’s poorest countries as well as to their business colleagues.
For example,
?¬650 will provide three start-up kits for a club scheme (stationery, record books, lock-up box for safe keeping of club records) together with staff training and coordination.
The savings scheme would then enable vulnerable families in Malawi to start saving and borrowing money to buy basic necessities for day-to-day survival and in some cases, start up a new business venture.
Richard Dixon, Director of Public Affairs with Concern, said:
“While it can be great fun to give someone an unusual or quirky gift like rabbits or a banana tree for Christmas, the real advantage is that the recipient in one of the countries where we work will enjoy the benefits for a very long time.
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You can order online at www.concerngifts.org or you can call 1850 458 400. Concern will then send you a special card that you can give to someone, telling them all about their gift and the money gift you buy goes directly to the people who need it most.