Gift Guide 2016-2017

GIFTS FOR CHANGE

G IFT G UIDE 2016/2017 EDITION

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Rather than just giving our partner communities what we think they need, we ask which items or programs the community needs or wants. After calculating extra costs like the training and education that accompany each gift, we share those items and plans with you!

IT’S ABOUT THRIVING COMMUNITIES.

SHOP 2 YOU and you send a gift card Browse through the gifts and learn how each contributes to a community’s goal of becoming sustainable. Select and order your gifts by phone, online, or mailed form.

Then, for each item you purchase, you can opt to receive a printed gift card or go online to choose an electronic card – which you then send to your friends, family, or clients to recognize that a gift was made in their name. Each card explains how the specific gift will help a developing community.

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada, part of the global FH family, is a Christian non-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide.

With partners like you, FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout the developing world as they strive toward sustainability. Recognizing that each community faces unique challenges as well as advantages, FH is committed to an integrated, holistic approach to development including priorities such as agriculture, education, health, livelihoods, and gender equality.

FH believes in creating innovative, long-term solutions and providing everyone an opportunity to join in the pursuit of a poverty-free world.

FH Canada currently partners with communities in Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Rwanda, and Uganda.

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PROMISE OF STEWARDSHIP

In-country staff purchase the items locally, supporting small businesses and local markets. They then incorporate them into the community’s sustainable development strategy to ensure the gifts have the maximum impact.

Priorities are set by the partner communities, not by us. FH Canada promises to implement your gift where the need is greatest; to ensure your donation stretches as far as possible through innovative, cost-effective methods; and to operate efficiently, spending a minimum of resources on fundraising and administration. We will always spend your donation on the gift you choose or a gift in the same category should that item reach fulfillment.

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And the community continues working towards GRADUATION! 2

Since 1994, 63 communities worldwide have graduated with FH Canada!

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“Before, I was only producing 8kg of bananas. Then I got a pig and could fertilize my crops. I now harvest up to 80kg! I can feed my family and still earn a profit.�

FOOD & FARMING

- Vedaste, farmer and father to six children, Busekera, Muhanga, Rwanda

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$50

Pair of Pigs Pass the pigs! A pair is just the start; next come the numerous piglets that can be sold in the market or raised at home to produce manure for vegetable gardens. This gift includes training to keep the pigs healthy as well as instruction on making the most effective fertilizer.

FOOD & FARMING PAGE 3-7

EDUCATION PAGE 9-12

MAKING A LIVING PAGE 13

HEALTH PAGE 14-15

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$60

Animal Rescue Kit Is your cow feeling colicky? Does your goat have gout?

The Animal Rescue Kit provides expert training for a local para-vet and equips them with a mobile first aid unit for livestock animals. The para-vet then makes important stable calls that could save an animal’s life (and a farmer’s livelihood!).

$1000

Stock A Stable By supporting farming co-ops, Stock A Stable truly promotes community development at its finest. Combining entrepreneurship and teamwork, this gift helps multiple farming families. Old McDonald doesn’t have anything on this livestock combo that includes cows, goats, chickens, medical aid, and animal care training, E-I-E-I-O!

$25

Pair of Chickens

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There’s nothing like the taste of farm-fresh, organic eggs. And let’s be honest, there’s also nothing like the taste of farm-fresh, organic chicken. More than providing families with eggs and meat, chickens are a long-term investment. Future eggs and chicks can be sold while droppings can be used as fertilizer.

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FOOD & FARMING

$60

Hive of Honey Bees What’s all the buzz about? Small but mighty, these expert pollinators make growing our food possible! By supplying a farmer with training, beehive materials, and bees you are providing a reliable source of income from honey sales while boosting local agriculture at the same time.

$75

Sturdy Goat

A goat provides milk, meat, manure, offspring, and income to an entire family for years. Your gift includes training on the best ways to care for the animal and to use what it produces. The recipient family will happily give the goat’s first kid to a neighbouring family in need.

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$120 Dairy Cow

A dairy cow produces milk for children to drink, manure to increase a farmer’s harvest, and future income through selling calves. With this year’s automatic match, your gift multiplies to help cover not only the purchase of a dairy cow, but all the training a farmer needs to make their cow, and their farm, thrive! *YOUR DONATION MATCHED BY GENEROUS BRITISH COLUMBIAN FARMERS. See details: fhcanada.org/match

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$240

Cooking with Gas Enable families to turn cow pies into cow power! By helping set up a bio-gas system with a farmer, you are turning manure into clean energy that fuels household lights and cook stoves.

This environmentally-friendly system stops families breathing toxic smoke from wood fires and saves trees.

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$20

Piece of Crap This unconventional gift may stink but it’s not a waste! Farmers are taught to turn manure into environmentally-friendly, organic fertilizer to grow prolific veggie gardens. Whatever your friend or family member did to deserve this gift, there’s a family in a developing community that will be incredibly grateful!

This page STINKS!!

It's the smell of sustainability!

Oh! And I thought it was me!

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$45

FOOD & FARMING

Garden Tools Families rely on home-grown vegetables to boost their children’s nutritional intake.

With garden tools, they can build compact planters from local materials that will help increase their vegetable yield. Juicy tomatoes, crisp kale, crunchy carrots they’re perfect for a nutritious dinner!

$25

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Fruit & Veggie Seeds

Big impact can come in small packages.

Fruit and Veggie Seeds provide a family with nutritious food and surplus produce to be sold for a profit. Also included in your gift is localized training on crop rotation and compost use – two techniques that lead to abundant harvests.

“The money I now earn - thanks to new kinds of vegetables and new tools allows me to live in a new home and send two of my children to school!”

- BARSISA, BUSINESS OWNER AND FATHER, SASIGA MID-HIGHLANDS, ETHIOPIA

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$20

Coffee Seedlings For the price of a few lattés, you can enable farmers to grow tiny coffee seedlings into the lush, incomegenerating crop that fills your mug each morning. As the demand for quality coffee beans goes up, these farmers will improve their production of a high value cash crop.

$35

Sack of Potatoes It may seem like small potatoes, but to a farmer, this gift has hearty potential. It supplies high-quality seed potatoes that can be grown into several crops. Multiplying and selling these seeds generates ongoing income for the recipient – plus it helps countless others start crops to feed their families!

$50

Plant a Tree Your gift provides a farmer with agroforestry skills and seedlings to start his own tree nursery. Trees improve soil, retain groundwater, and prevent erosion. They also provide fruit, lumber, a renewable source of cooking fuel, and steady income. They’re not only good for the community, they’re good for the world!

Think like a tree...!

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$65

Girl Power!

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EDUCATION

This gift helps women access needed resources and, most importantly, helps girls go to school! It provides gender equality training for leaders, parents, spouses, and children.

When a girl stays in school, it reduces her risks of child marriage and domestic violence, while increasing her future life opportunities and independence.

$25

Children's Breakfast Club

Breakfast is an important meal for children, yet many kids in developing communities have to go without. Your gift supplies a child with a nutritious school breakfast for the entire school year! With such a good deal on breakfast, consider buying multiples of this item.

“Your support helped me to become one of the top students!�

- DAWIT, STUDENT, SASIGA, ETHIOPIA

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$25

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Sports Equipment Kids around the world love to be active and dream of playing on a team. By purchasing Sports Equipment, you’re creating a learning environment where students will have fun as a team while developing their individual skills.

Who knows? You could be supporting the next Olympic champion! *YOUR DONATION MATCHED BY FIFTH AVENUE CLUB (Calgary, AB) fifthavenueclub.ca See details: fhcanada.org/match

$500

Furnish a Classroom Bare walls and empty floors are a depressing (and impractical) learning environment. With this gift, you can furnish an entire classroom with locally purchased blackboards, desks, and chairs helping keen children get a quality education.

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$50

School Fees & Uniforms Bright, eager kids want an education, but families often can’t afford the mandatory fees and school uniform. Your gift not only enables a child to go to school, it also gives parents a chance to develop income-generating skills that will empower them to support their child’s education in the future.

EDUCATION

$50

Send a Child to AWANA

Growing up can be especially difficult for kids in communities where insecurity and violence are common. Weekly kids’ clubs use certified AWANA curriculum to affirm each child’s worth while they learn biblical values, make new friends, and enjoy crafts and games in a safe environment. *IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AWANA CANADA awanacanada.ca See details: fhcanada.org/match

$30

School Supplies

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Who doesn’t love the smell of a freshly sharpened No. 2 Pencil?

Many kids around the world don’t have the luxury of textbooks, notebooks, or even pencils. When you give School Supplies, you’re directly supporting a child’s education in a practical and valuable way.

$80

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School Garden School isn’t just about reading, writing, and arithmetic, it’s also about life skills. In the school garden, students have the opportunity to learn effective farming techniques, and how to care for their environment through composting and creative recycling. By giving seeds and training, this gift helps kids proudly cultivate produce that also supplements nutritious and tasty school lunches.

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$25

Art Supplies Children everywhere are bursting with creative energy!

Through special clubs, kids are given mentorship and space to enjoy colours, painting and crafts. Help them spread the wings of their imagination. Art and music are special treats that lead to huge smiles and a healthy sense of fun and self-worth.

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$100

Sewing Machine

$50

When you buy a Sewing Machine, you provide a woman with the skills to handcraft and sell quality products, generate income, and provide for her family. If you know someone who loves beautiful fabrics and custom tailored clothes, but also cares about social justice, this SEAMS perfect!

Piggy Bank If you want to make an impact that earns interest, invest here! This gift provides a Savings and Loans Group with training in financial literacy, money management, and small business management to help grow their modest incomes into substantial capital. Also included are a secure lock box, ledger, and personal accounting books.

$120

Help a Family Start a Business There’s an ambitious entrepreneur out there itching to begin her own business venture. When you purchase this gift, you provide skills training and money management, as well as start up supplies, for individuals and co-ops. For the creative, forward-thinker in your life, this gift is right on the money! mail orderpage form, 8page call 1.800.667.0605 visitfhcanada.org/gifts fhcanada.org/gifts mail order form, call8 1.800.667.0605 visit

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$35

Purification Filters Imagine turning on the kitchen tap and getting a refreshing cup of...cloudy, infected water? Yuck! Your gift provides a family with a locally-made water purification system as well as education on sanitation.

Imagine how this will improve their quality of life the next time they take a drink.

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$75

Clean Water Tap

Tap into the world’s most precious resource: water. This gift provides families with handwashing stations and access to clean water storage so they can drink, cook, and wash safely. Families will also learn life-saving hygiene lessons like hand-washing and water purification techniques.

$2500

What seems to be the problem?

Water Well

Location, location, location! An easily-accessible, clean water source is revolutionary for the health of a community, and for the girls who can return to school because they no longer spend hours walking to fetch water. This gift will help dig a well for an entire community.

$25

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Send Food Aid

Ladle up food relief for communities living in crisis or transitioning to self-sustainability. Whether it’s for kids at school or refugees struggling to get by, micronutrient food shipments bring hope and life to every place they’re sent.

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$40

$50

What would happen if your child fell ill and every pharmacy was out of the medicine she needed?

This scenario plays out daily in crisis communities around the world. Help restock shelves with medical supplies, malaria medication, and life!

Your gift also supports desperately needed HIV prevention training.

This life-saving gift helps provide medical insurance for one family in a developing community for one year. Whether it's regular check-ups, vaccinations, maternal care, or treatment for common illnesses – it’s covered when you purchase this gift!

Send Medicine

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Medical Insurance for a Family

HEALTH

$500

Ultrasound Machine If you’ve experienced seeing your baby on an ultrasound screen, you know why this gift is so amazing! Sending tools like ultrasound machines enables doctors in developing communities the abilities they need to care for expecting mothers and their unborn babies. The proper equipment and diagnosis is the difference between life and death.

$75

Clean Toilet What’s worse than not being able to find a bathroom when you really need one?!

This gift helps construct clean, secure toilets so families (especially children) can avoid common health problems caused by poor sanitation. It's sure to bring a smile to someone in your life, too!

$30

Chubby Cheeks

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Proper nutrition in the first months of a newborn’s life is foundational to their lifelong health. This gift equips “leader mothers” to teach new moms life-saving lessons about breastfeeding and nutrition. It also provides counselling, vitamins, and supplemental nutrition so mommy and baby stay healthy and strong. mailform, orderpage form, 8 page call 1.800.667.0605 visit fhcanada.org/gifts mail order call8 1.800.667.0605 visit fhcanada.org/gifts

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$40

Where Needed Most Sometimes, the unplanned hits a community hard. Drought robs a farmer of her crop. Broken transportation blocks staff from accessing communities. A malaria outbreak threatens the lives of school children. When the unpredictable strikes, your gift will be there to provide an immediate and appropriate response where needed most.

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