Looking For Unique Gift Ideas? Donate To A Charity! We all have that friend or family member that is difficult to buy for. Perhaps they seem to have everything or you are stuck for an idea or maybe they are someone with high ideals. Well why not buy them a chicken or a goat?
There are hundreds of
unique gift ideas that you can buy in the name of your love one.
How about new businesses that will help lift a family out of poverty and set them on the road to a useful life and provide them with an income and some dignity? And yes you can afford to do that. Just $150 will provide a woman in a poor country with a Shea Butter Business.
In northern Ghana, for example, women have traditionally had limited access to income yet they often had several children and perhaps an aged relative to support. The man of the household may have died in war or from malnutrition or disease or he may be struggling to earn enough to maintain his family. A Shea butter processing business will provide a women, or group of women the opportunity to earn their own money.
Women will gather nuts from the shea tree and then process the nuts into valuable shea butter. This can be sold locally and even internationally. The charity will teach the women valuable business skills and encourage them to organise themselves into groups so that they can negotiate higher prices for their wares. This not only provides the women with valuable social support activities but also enables them to save money on such factors as storage and processing.
So your small charity donation will set one of more women and their families on the road to a sustainable future and give them the opportunity to provide for their families. Not only that but you provide them with dignity.
There are numerous other gifts to charity that you can make – from corn and maize to whole water filtration systems. All of them will make a difference.
So if you are looking for
unique gift ideas – why not give, not once but twice? Once to your loved one and the second a gift of a new life for a family in a far off nation!