It’s deadly, it kills more than 400,000 people every year and it’s entirely preventable: it’s malaria. This gift is a simple solution designed to stop a killer in its tracks. Mosquito nets are treated with insecticide and last up to three years.

Give the gift of leadership training, mentorship and opportunities for girls who live in diverse contexts within low-income communities around the world. This gift will help girls build their confidence, self-esteem and life skills so that they can make their own life choices, thrive and lead the way for the next generation.

Support girls in bridging the digital divide, by providing equal access to information technology and safe online spaces. This gift will provide safe online spaces where girls can learn about their rights and share their opinions without fear of discrimination or harassment. Help ensure girls can build thriving communities unbound by borders.

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.

Help improve the lives of children everywhere. 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 to where the need is greatest.

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.

A pair of shoes, a school bag, a pencil, a notebook: simple items many families can’t afford, simple items that too often keep children out of school. This gift provides children with everything they need to get to the door of their classroom, ready to learn – everything from shoes, books and supplies, to bursaries that help with transportation expenses and uniforms.

It just might be the most unique gift you’ll give this year. It most certainly will be the most life-changing. Goat’s milk means important protein for growing children, especially girls. The sale of offsprings means an income to pay for essentials – like an education – that open up opportunities for girls. Hoofs down, we’re m-a-a-a-d about this gift!

Give the gift of savings and loans to women experiencing poverty who don’t have access to banks or financing options. This gift provides financial programs for women’s groups to save money together and invest in their children and community. It will also provide money management training, improving household income and helping women boost their independence.

Face masks are one of the most effective guards against COVID-19. Help prevent the spread of this deadly virus by providing children, teachers and community members with reusable masks and training on use, as well as equipping health workers with medical-grade masks.

When disaster hits, children are separated from their families, and girls are open to the risk of trafficking, violence and forced labour.

What if your life depended on this phrase: Khajc jklc aslkjp akhcbp. Can’t make sense of it? That’s what life is like for the millions of illiterate women in the world. But this gift of literacy, including financial literacy, is helping the world make sense for thousands of women in low-income countries.