Gifts of Hope

Give the gift of savings and loans to women experiencing poverty who don’t have access to banks or financing options. This gift provides financial programs for women’s groups to save money together and invest in their children and community. It will also provide money management training, improving household income and helping women boost their independence.

Girls' perspectives belong everywhere decisions are made. This gift engages girls in Canada and around the world, including those in refugee camps, in decision making. Through seat shares, advisory panels, innovation hubs, consultation sessions and more, this gift helps girls have meaningful interactions with governments, corporations and civil-society organizations. It supports training for girls that builds their leadership skills as well as community sessions for girls' perspectives to be both heard and factored into decisions.

The goal is to End HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria infections around the world by 2030. It's a big, bold, audacious goal, and you can help make it happen. This gift supports the efforts of government and health care workers to provide communities with awareness, prevention tools and treatment.

What if your life depended on this phrase: Khajc jklc aslkjp akhcbp. Can't make sense of it? That's what life is like for the millions of women in the world who cannot read. But this gift of literacy, including financial literacy, is helping thousands of women in low-income countries make sense of the world.

This eco-conscious gift will support women and youth in growing businesses that nourish communities and help the planet flourish. It works to sustain environments, food availability and incomes with training and supplies for ventures like seaweed farming, mushroom foraging and beekeeping. This gift also helps protect regions most vulnerable to climate disasters with community-led initiatives like mangrove planting and conservation to reduce storm dangers and damage.

Equip and revamp preschools, primary schools and other education facilities for thousands of children. The schools can provide access to water, separate latrines for girls, canteens filled with tables, chairs, pots and pans, and essential food staples to make healthy, filling meals.

The Mom Shop helps women become entrepreneurs who can support themselves and their children. This gift includes vocational training and financial­ literacy courses. It offers village savings and loan programs so women can work together to create small businesses, making things like honey, peanut butter, clothing or soap - initiatives that provide a solid income for family needs and independence.

This eco-conscious gift will support women and youth in growing businesses that nourish communities and help the planet flourish. It works to sustain environments, food availability and incomes with training and supplies for ventures like seaweed farming, mushroom foraging and beekeeping. This gift also helps protect regions most vulnerable to climate disasters with community-led initiatives like mangrove planting and conservation to reduce storm dangers and damage.

Water is a basic need, and access to it is a basic right. Yet more than 1.5 million children die annually from illnesses related to drinking unclean water. Let's change that. Help thousands of people access clean, reliable water systems and sanitation facilities and give them the training and skills to protect their water supply and ensure it will be there for future generations.

About a third of the world has never used the internet; most are women and girls who are disconnected from learning, careers and independence – especially during crises. This gift helps girls and young women build fundamental tech and online skills so they can keep pace, create businesses and succeed amid uncertainty. It sets up development centres and computer training, and teaches the use of mobile wallets and digital financial services to increase self-reliance.

No child should go hungry – and this gift can help make sure they never do. Through both food distribution and agricultural support, this gift helps ensure that girls and families in regions most challenged by climate change not only have nourishing meals for a day but also their own sustainable sources for a full, healthy lifetime.

Break down barriers to health care by tackling the stigmas that prevent millions of marginalized individuals from accessing life-saving treatment. Your gift will help empower women, girls and members of the LGBTQ+ community to assert their rights by helping them secure medical, legal and psychological support services. This gift helps ensure every person can survive and thrive as their authentic selves.