What Are Most Needed Gifts?
Most Needed Gifts are carefully selected to address the most urgent needs in the communities we serve. These gifts provide essential resources like clean water, education, health care, and protection when and where they’re needed most around the world, helping children and families survive and thrive. These gifts are more than symbolic - they’re a lifeline for children and families facing the world’s toughest challenges.
Why these gifts matter
During global emergencies like hunger, conflict, and climate disasters, the safety of children, especially girls, is most threatened because it’s hardest for them to get necessary essentials like food, shelter and health care. Most Needed Gifts help protect children and girls.
When you choose a Most Needed Gift, you’re helping our global teams:
Deliver emergency aid during disasters or conflict
Provide life-saving health care and nutrition
Ensure families have clean water and sanitation
Protect children and their right to continue education
Featured gift
Greatest Need
$50Looking for a gift that can make all the difference in saving a life? This is it. This gift spans the world to support girls facing extreme poverty, injustice, disasters and conflict. Packed with purpose, it helps reach those in greatest need across 50-plus countries with everything from vital supplies to urgent services.
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Most Needed Gifts are one of the most effective ways to support children around the world. Some, like our Greatest Need gift, are designed to be flexible and responsive so they can support urgent issues as they arise or close critical funding gaps for projects supporting children. Whether it’s responding to a crisis to help save lives or making sure that community transformations can last, your gifts ensure help reaches those who need it most.
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» Shop all giftsThe world needs more health workers, especially in remote communities facing extreme poverty. This gift helps make medical care, life-saving medicine and immunizations against deadly diseases available to those who need them. It helps ensure that even people living in the hardest-to-reach places have access to things like maternal and newborn care, mental health support and clinics with supplies and skilled staff.
When the clinic is too far or pharmacy shelves sit empty, a treatable illness can turn fatal. The Healthy Communities Bundle restocks pharmacies with medicines and supplies that families count on. It sends health teams into remote villages to reach girls and women who might otherwise go without care. This bundle also provides mental health support and activities to help recover from trauma.
Looking for a gift that can make all the difference in saving a life? This is it. Food baskets are filled with staples like beans, cooking oil, fortified cereal blends and sugar and given to those facing dangerous levels of malnutrition, like pregnant women, new mothers and young children. Help fight the hunger crisis and restore health with this crucial gift.
Clean water isn’t optional; when you don’t have it, getting it is the goal that matters most. This gift helps provide clean water sources so families can focus on other things, like staying healthy and safe. Girls are most often the ones to travel long distances to fetch water, so this gift also helps them save time and energy for school.
Your gifts have a real impact
IMPACT CORNER
Génesis overcomes trauma through play
One night, a torrential storm flooded nine-year-old Génesis’ home in Peru. “I thought I was going to lose my mother and father,” she says. After moving to safety, she started visiting a Plan space for children coping with trauma. “When we started playing, I didn’t think about the rain anymore,” she says. “Sharing made me see that I was not alone … that it’s normal to be sad or scared during emergencies, but together we can get through anything.”
DONOR QUOTE
I wanted to reach out to children and families who could benefit from kindness. Even a small gift has so much value, especially when matched. It’s a chance to make a real difference in a world where caring is essential.”
– Dianne, British Columbia
About Gifts of Hope
Gifts of Hope help create a more just, peaceful and equal world. They provide tangible goods and vital services to children and families while also tackling the greatest challenges girls face.
Last year, 84 cents of every dollar we spent went to programming for children and families worldwide. And Gifts of Hope helped make real change happen for 4.7 million people through 60 projects spanning three continents!
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