Transracial Adoption, Transcultural Adoption Blog

12/14/06

Holiday gifts with meaning

Posted by : Erin H in Transracial/Transcultural Adoption Blog at 04:00 am , 388 words, 80 views
Categories: Resources, Holidays/Important Days, Websites

Here are five ideas for “gifts with a meaning this holiday”, that are not too late to buy. If you have someone on your list still that is one of those people that “has it all”, why

not give them a meaningful gift…something beyond the normal “stuff”. Or, pick one of these to do with your children to help them get into the spirit of giving this holiday season.

All five of these suggestions are related to adoption, orphans and children. I welcome other suggestions that you may have. Leave me a comment and I will add to my list. :)

Adoption.com’s Orphan Christmas Fund benefits orphans in Brazil, India and Mozambique. 100% of your donation goes to providing food and toys to orphanage children, and Adoption.com will be matching, dollar-to-dollar, all donations, up to $5000. That’s a lot of Christmas dinners and presents!!

SPONSOR

Melissa Fay Greene’s Book There is No Me Without You is a fantastic, eye-opening book about Ethiopia, orphans and the AIDS crisis. You can read what I wrote about it in an earlier post here. I think it would make an awesome Christmas present for all sorts of people.

Give a gift of hope to kids in Ethiopia through Adoption Advocates International’s website. At this site you can shop for Ethiopian items with all proceeds benefiting the GRACE fund that gives grants to parents adopting harder to place children (siblings, special needs kids, older kids, etc.) from Ethiopia. You can also sponsor a child, buy ornaments, buy Christmas cards and choose from several other ways to give this Christmas.

Sponsor a child at AHOPE. I think I’ve written enough about how I feel about AHOPE and those children. You can sponsor a child for $30 a month…if you haven’t already…do it! You can also check out their Christmas wish list on the website, and find something big or small that you can send to make a big difference in the lives of some awesome children.

Help out Heather and Avery with their Yesus on the Streets project. Heather and Avery are working on bringing home a brother and sister from Ethiopia and trying to give back to the many poor and homeless that live there.

Let me know if you have some to add to this list. :)

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Comment from: knit2purl2 [Member]

www.christianchildrensfund.org
Christian Children's Fund has many gift opportunities to help orphans.
Dh and I have been involved with CCF for 24 years and have seen the results of their work.
This year in lieu of gifts to family members, my 90 year old mom has gone through the CCF catalogue and chosen gifts 'for' each of us. It's a win-win-win situation. She gets to give, we get to receive, no one gets the clutter and the children benefit.
Kathleen

Permalink 12/14/06 @ 08:16

Comment from: hollyrcpm [Member]

www.motherswithoutborders.org - working with orphaned and vulnerable children all over the world, but focusing their efforts in sub-Saharan Africa.

Permalink 12/14/06 @ 13:37

Comment from: S [Member]

Since our baby doesn't know the difference yet, we didn't get him any toys this Christmas. Instead, we signed up for a sponsporship of an orphan in Nazret in honor of our baby. This can be done through the AAI website as well. We thought it was a great gift because 1) our baby is from Nazret and 2) it is allowing a child to stay with extended family and to pursue their education. If I'm not mistaken, the AAI program social workers have identified something like 1000 kids eligible for this program in Nazret alone, yet only a few hundered are being sponsored at this time.

Merry Christmas!

Permalink 12/14/06 @ 14:11

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