Your gift brings peace of mind for parents as they try to keep their families free from illness and safe. For girls, it means a day at school instead of an arduous journey to fetch water. For all children, it means quenched thirst and new health. This gift, given in your name, springs better days for families.

Your gift will help quell the pain of hunger for thousands of women and children. Filled with staples like beans, cooking oil, fortified cereal blends and sugar, it’s a basic food basket with an impact that is anything but. This gift of food, given in your name, for pregnant women, mothers and young children under five who are malnourished is a critical step to prevent a slide into a life and death situation and instead restore children to health.

Sometimes newborn babies need the simplest things – like a clean, warm place to curl up. That’s what your gift provides, in the form of a soft, cozy blanket to keep babies safe and snug. This gift is wrapping newborns up in warmth and safety before they’re delivered into the loving shelter of their mother’s arms.