Help reach refugee and internally displaced children at the most critical time. Besides providing basic food, water, and shelter, this gift keeps children safe, reuniting them with their families and giving them hope that life will once again feel normal.

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 for thousands of 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. Basket by basket, you’ll be saving lives.

Fill schools in low-income countries with all the essentials to give students the best possible education and the best possible start to a better life. With this gift, you’ll not only be helping provide basics such as textbooks and pencils, you’ll be funding essential school meal programs and teacher training.

You walk into your local drugstore with a prescription for your sick child and you expect to walk out with the medication your child needs to get better. But families in some parts of the world are walking out of pharmacies empty-handed because of a lack of supply.

Help nourish bodies and minds with daily meals for an entire school. This gift supplies school kitchens with nutritious ingredients, cookware and even clean water. You’ll help classrooms of children enjoy hot lunches, protein-rich snacks and the benefits of good nutrition to grow healthy and fuel learning.

Help families at their most critical moments. You’ll help girls and women secure financial assistance like food vouchers, cash and e-transfers during displacement and extreme hunger crises. Help families meet their most urgent needs while empowering women to lead themselves and their families through emergencies. 

A book is the most basic of objects, essentially a pile of paper and ink. But combine it with the curious mind of a child and a book ignites change of the world-shifting variety.

This gift provides training for health workers of all stripes, from midwives to community health volunteers to nurses. It’s helping strengthen health systems to improve health care from the doorstep to the delivery room and everywhere in between, with a focus on reaching the people most at risk, especially women, newborns and children.

Girls have a unique ability to change the world and the lives of those around them. This gift is about unleashing that power in every girl. It’s about offering girls nourishment, education and protection.

Empower health heroes by giving them the tools to safely do what they do best: save lives. This gift will supply health care workers and their health facilities with sanitizers, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), mobile clinic vehicles for hard-to-reach communities, training and even digital tools to help them stay informed.

This gift connects children suffering trauma from conflict or disasters with mental health and psychosocial services. Help children access safe spaces, therapeutic outlets and professional counselling from trained social workers. Support orphaned children and help reunite families separated by emergencies. Help a survivor find their lifeline.

You’ve just received an extra-special gift – the gift of give to where the need is greatest. It doesn’t come wrapped with ribbons and bows, and you’ll never hold it in your hands. The magic of this gift is that it will support projects in areas like maternal and newborn health, education and livelihood, transforming the lives of children around the world. This gift – made in your name – will support the Plan International Canada fund each month, changing lives all year long.