Gifts of Hope

Your gift is improving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children. Supporting initiatives like maternal and newborn health programs, and education and livelihood projects, this extra-special gift helps provide access to essentials and mobilize personnel so they can be where the need is greatest.

With this gift, you’ll help girls seeking refuge from violence or natural disasters maintain their right to human dignity. This kit is filled to the brim with soap, toothpaste and sanitary products like menstrual pads. Your gift will help protect health, promote hygiene and prevent stigmatization so girls in need can carry on with confidence.

This gift might seem like a simple gesture, but it’s far more effective – and essential – than anyone can imagine. This gift is all wrapped up in education, empowerment, health and equal opportunity. It will help girls Defy Normal by giving them the resources to keep attending school during their periods and to stay healthy. It will also teach girls how to safely manage their periods and can teach them how to make pads for added income. And the most powerful part: it also helps end period shame and stigmas, that limit girls’ potential, by driving community trainings that include men and boys.

Your gift will help refugees begin to heal and start anew. It will provide them with essential services and supplies like shelter, health care and emotional support. It will protect girls vulnerable to exploitation, set up safe spaces for children to learn and play and open new opportunities for families. This gift, given in your name, will not only help refugees recover, it will help them reclaim the promise of a better life.

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.

Your gift will provide a girl with the support she needs to continue her schooling. It will help her see that she has many new options and that her future is opening up wide in front of her. It will help her inspire her sisters, her brothers and others in her community. This gift, given in your name, will help a girl change the direction of her life and change her world.

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.

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.

Your gift will provide a source of income, often for a woman, who will sell the eggs, breed the chickens and help provide for her family. They also teach young girls livestock management skills that they can use to make a living. This tiny gift brings hope that life can and will get better. In your name, women and girls can earn an income and learn skills they can use to take charge of and improve their lives.

Your gift provides families with food for today and essentials for a bountiful garden: quality seeds and agricultural tools and training to nurture lush crops and a new source of livelihood. It will help girls, who are more likely to be malnourished, get the nutrients they need to grow healthy and strong. This gift, given in your name, will provide an endless harvest of hope, helping possibility flourish.

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.

Around the world, millions of women, girls and members of the LGBTQ+ community are discouraged from accessing health care and sometimes denied treatment, due to stigma. Your gift will challenge this through trainings and workshops, as well as helping those affected secure a range of medical, legal and psychosocial services – working to ensure health systems can become more inclusive to all.