A repost of my wishlist, just in case anyone wants it. :)
Some of these send cards once you've made a donation. If you have my address, go ahead and do that--or else have the card sent to yourself, and just tell me about it, or scan it. Either way I'll be just as happy.
Or, for things that have an ecard option, my email is: miss_c_bligh@yahoo.ca
I've stolen the descriptions directly from the websites.
1. From Unicef Canada:
Plumpy Nut: Eating three packages a day for one week of this peanut-based therapeutic food can help a malnourished child gain up to two pounds. Your gift provides 16 packages to boost a child’s chance of survival.
$10.00 CAD2. From Unicef Canada:
Bed Net: It’s a shocking statistic that malaria kills a child somewhere in the world every 30 seconds. Your gift of an insecticide-treated bed net will help keep a child safe from malaria-carrying mosquitoes for up to five years.
$10.00 CAD3. From Unicef Canada:
High-energy Biscuits: During an emergency, children need energy-packed biscuits with vital nutrients to help keep them nourished. Your gift includes over 500 tasty biscuits.
$28.00 CAD4. From Unicef Canada:
Water Purification Tablets: What we take for granted is denied to millions of children and families. Your gift will provide over 2,400 water treatment tablets for a family – enough to provide clean water for over three months.
$20.00 CAD5. From Unicef USA:
Therapeutic Milk: This gift provides therapeutic milk that saves the lives of severely malnourished children. While UNICEF strongly supports and encourages breastfeeding, this therapeutic milk is used in emergency feeding centers, refugee camps and hospitals in regions where food security is affected by famine, drought and crop failure. A milk-based powder for treatment of severe child malnutrition, this successful formula includes added vegetable fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals and boosts the chances of child survival. Your purchase will provide 12 liters of liquid diet.
$24.75 USD (
Also available in 8 litre lots via Unicef Canada for $20.00 CAD.)
6. From Plan Canada:
Home Birthing Kits: When you picture a home birth, do you envision a mud floor in a straw hut? That’s where most women in the developing world deliver their babies. These home birthing kits, given to trained traditional birthing attendants, are filled with such things as sterilized instruments, gloves, antiseptic and fresh towels — enough supplies to give 10 babies a healthy start in life.
$25.00 CAD7. From Care Canada:
A pair of chickens: When her husband disappeared in Kabul, Hanifa Sakhi and her six children were left to fend for themselves. Her boys sold chewing gum on street corners to pay for food. Today, Hanifa lives in a small house, and earns enough from dairy products to feed her family and to send her youngest son to school. It all started when CARE trained Hanifa to rear chickens and cows, and advanced her the credit to invest in a dozen chickens.
Donate a pair of chickens, and help a family just like Hanifa's to lift themselves from poverty.
$32.00 CAD8. From Good Gifts:
Protect 50 people from river blindness endemic in Africa with a once-a-year pill. £8 GBP9. From Good Gifts:
Thirty School Dinners: School dinners. You can't study if you´re hungry. Provide 30 school dinners for a class in an African school.
£9 GBP10. From SPCA International:
Donate to Baghdad pups: U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan befriend local animals as a way to help cope with the emotional hardships they endure every day while deployed in a war zone. The Operation Baghdad Pups program provides veterinary care and coordinates complicated logistics and transportation requirements in order to reunite these beloved pets with their service men and women back in the U.S. These important animals not only help our heroes in the war zone, but they also help them readjust to life back home after combat.
11. From Plan Australia:
Donate to Plan: Donate to Plan's emergency appeals or to priority projects in Asia and Africa that we undertake in addition to those funded by child sponsorship.
By making a tax deductible donation to these priority projects, you can help communities lessen the impact of HIV/AIDS, improve a child's health status, support the training of teachers and health workers, or improve a child's ability to do well at school.
12. From Unicef Australia:
Donate to Unicef Australia's Malnutrition Appeal: Malnutrition plays a part in up to half of all child deaths.
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