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.

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When you choose a Most Needed Gift, you’re helping our global teams:
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Deliver emergency aid during disasters or conflict

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Provide life-saving health care and nutrition

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Ensure families have clean water and sanitation

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Protect children and their right to continue education

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Food Basket
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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.

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Why choose a Most Needed Gift?

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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$85 matched for $510 value

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.

$400 matched for $1600 value

No child should be caught in crossfire or crisis. This life-saving gift bundle makes the biggest impact for children who are affected by conflict or disasters. It helps reunite separated families and provide essentials like hygiene supplies and safe shelters where children can learn, play and have the protection and support they need.

$25 matched for $175 value

When crises and emergencies strike, families need help fast. Flexible financial support helps families meet their children’s most urgent needs. Give this gift to provide food vouchers, cash and e-transfers to women and girls, who face higher risks of dangers like hunger and violence.

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$150 matched for $1350 value

When the closest clinic is days away, a simple infection can put a child’s life at risk, and childbirth can become life-threatening. This gift helps mobile health workers reach isolated communities with transportation, medicine and supplies to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases like HIV, malaria and TB. From remote islands to deep in the desert, it saves lives — especially for mothers and children.

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$10 matched for $50 value

A book can spark young minds, introducing meaningful ideas, expanding the limits of possibility and opening a world of creative discovery. A book in the hands of a child can inspire a whole journey through learning and life.

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$50 matched for $350 value

This Gift of Hope helps women become midwives, nurses and community health volunteers. It helps them build valued skills, careers and independence while also boosting local health and driving change throughout communities.

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.”

Génesis, at right, with her mother and
younger sister, Estrellita.
Génesis, at right, with her mother and younger sister, Estrellita.

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, 83 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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