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 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
Food Basket
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.
Add to CartWhy choose a Most Needed Gift?
Most Needed Gifts are one of the most effective ways to support children around the world. Many are designed to be flexible and responsive to direct your support to areas with the greatest urgency or critical gaps that need to be met 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 giftsYou walk into your local drugstore with a prescription for your sick child, and you expect to walk out with the medication they need. But families in some parts of the world don't have that option. Your gift will help improve the supply of medicine in low-income countries, stocking shelves and saving lives.
This gift bundle includes the essentials for good health: food, clean water and access to crucial care. It also goes beyond the basics to help give families, especially women and girls, the protection and support they need to escape violent situations and overcome some of the most challenging situations.
When a crisis hits, children can’t wait. This gift delivers help within days to children in vulnerable settings. Whether it’s food in Gaza, shelter in Haiti, or clean water for children fleeing Sudan, it’s how life-saving aid and hope arrive fast. You’ll help protect childhood in the most dangerous places, when every minute matters and response can’t wait.
Help create safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth around the world. This gift ensures LGBTQ+ youth can access counselling resources and legal and health services and learn about their rights in a comfortable, supportive setting. It also backs efforts to advocate for more inclusive communities and systems that recognize every person’s right to protection, respect and the freedom to live as their authentic self.
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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