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 giftsExtreme hunger is one of the biggest problems in the world today – and it shouldn’t exist. With your help, we can fix it. This gift provides emergency food so no child has to starve. It also provides farming support so at-risk girls and families in the most climate-challenged parts of the world have sustainable food sources all year.
Help us break down barriers for LGBTQ+ community members and marginalized women and girls, especially when it comes to claiming their right to safely access health care and life-saving treatments. This gift helps ensure that medical, legal and psychological support services are available to anyone who needs them so we can end discrimination and build communities and systems where everyone is free to thrive.
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, 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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