Even with the economic recession those of us in North America are extremely blessed. If you are reading this post than you likely have a home, food and clothing... and most of you have your own computer and your children have their own toys. That is a lot more than SO much of our world's population.
This Christmas why not consider giving a gift that will help those less fortunate than we are?
Through the World Vision Gift Catalog, you can make a donation to dozens of different projects around the world to help children and families in need. It’s much better than giving an impersonal gift card or a last-minute purchase like a sweater, and the donations can go a long way to promoting health and wellness in the developing world. These items make great gifts for moms, dads, grandparents AND children! The World Vision Gift Catalog is a wonderful opportunity to give great, inexpensive gifts that no one will want to exchange.
The World Vision gifts are a great value for people trying to pinch their pennies and please their loved ones. And they stretch a family’s “giving dollars” this year because, thanks to corporate product donations and government matching grants, many of the gifts will help provide much more than the $25 gift! A sampling of inexpensive gift items include:
- $16 will buy two soccer or basketballs for a child
- $17 will buy improved hybrid or drought-resistant seeds for a nourishing harvest and income
- $18 will buy enough bed nets to protect an entire family from malaria
- $25 will provide $350 worth of school supplies in the U.S.
- $25 buys two chickens to provide a lasting source of nutrition and income for a family
Last year alone, World Vision’s Gift Catalog raised $25 million and provided assistance to more than 500,000 people around the world.
World Vision launched the Gift Catalog in 1996. And while a goat ($75) may be World Vision’s number one seller, there are more than 100 gifts (many under $35) to choose from.
To order: www.worldvisiongifts.org. Or call toll-free (888) 511-6511. All items are tax-deductible.
The amazingly generous folks at World Vision are offering up this beautiful Ugandan bracelet for one of my lucky readers!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO WIN THIS LOVELY BRACELET?~Leave me a comment here telling me that you want to win!
FOR EXTRA ENTRIES
~ head on over to the World Vision site and look around. Come back and tell me about one of the gift ideas you love.
~ tell me how you are planning on being generous this holiday season.
~ become a fan of World Vision on Facebook.
~ follow World Vision on Twitter.
~ head on over to World Vision's YouTube channel and watch one of the great videos there. Come back here and tell me about it.
~ Tweet about the World Vision gift catalog with a link to www.worldvisiongifts.org and then come back and tell me you did. (*as many times as you like)
~ subscribe to the World Vision e-mailing list and then come back and let me know that you did.
~ Subscribe to this blog via email
~ Subscribe to this blog via the reader of your choice
~ Follow this blog
~ Add my button to your site
~ Follow me on Twitter and tweet this giveaway (as many times as you like)
~ Become a Fan of this blog on Facebook
~ Share this giveaway or about the World Vision gift catalog on Facebook or another social networking site of your choosing
~ email a couple friends about this giveaway OR about the World Vision gift catalog and let me know that you did
~ stumble this site or giveaway
This giveaway is open to readers in the USA only (sorry to my fellow Canadians). I will choose a winner on December 1, 2009.
Winner will be chosen with random.org and notified by email so please leave me a way to contact you. Winner will have 48 hours to reply to my email or I will choose a new winner.
Don't forget to enter my other great giveaways...
21 comments:
I'm a big fan of worldvision, and we support 5 children through them. thank you for your giveaway!
this thanksgiving, we'll be giving to food baskets distributed by our church to those in need in our community.
I love that you can give a gift to someone in WorldVision's program instead of something that your family members will throw in a drawer. Giving someone a goat that needs a goat is an awesome gift.
Follow worldvision on twitter as @atrane
fan on facebook as amythomas at gmail dot com
I would like to win beautiful Ugandan bracelet. God bless the World Vision Organization and their supporters for all they do.
subscriber to tarasviewoftheworld. Hope you are feeling better.
follow your blog.
I used to work for World Vision..i would love to have that bracelet!!!
gypsiegirlsilver
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What a beautiful bracelet! thanks for the chance.
dawn
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I support two children in Uganda (named Dorothy and Leticia) through Compassion International and have since Dorothy was 6 (she's now almost 14) and Leticia since she was 6 and she is now eight.
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I want to win this bracelet to give as a Christmas gift. This gift will be for a very special women in our church. She heads up the mission committee and her son is a missionary over in Kyrgyzstan. She is passionate World Vision and Voice of the Martyrs. I would love to win this bracelet to gift it to her.
I am already a World Vision email subscriber.
I am a World Vision fan on Facebook
I follow World Vision on twitter
I subscribe to this blog via email
I subscribe to this blog via Google reader
I follow this blog
I am a Fan of this blog on Facebook
Worldvision sounds like a great company! I'd love to win
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