Giving with purpose

So the past few weeks I have been gathering some new Christmas Shopping ideas.  Check them out, learn about what they do, and help this season to change the world for one.

 

The purchase of a handmade necklace helps a women take care of her family and feed a child in Uganda.

amazima.org

                                                     

Host a shoe cutting party.  Or buy some cute shoes for your toddler and help another child in another country.
solehope.org

Hit the link below to go to special Christmas party ideas from Sole Hope

 http://solehope.wazala.com/?page=product_det&id=105948

 147 Million Orphans works to serve the orphans crisis all over our world.  Buy  shirts, jewelry, mugs, ect and the money goes to feed a child, provide medication, and schooling.

Visit them at 147millionorphans.com

 Go to missionethiopia.com to find out about their mission, view a video about what they are doing and help a women provide for her family by buying these handcrafted necklaces.  Some of which are made from the beautiful soil of Ethiopia.

Light Gives Heat works to create world-changing opportunities in both Africa and America.  

In Uganda we partner with local Artisans to create consistent incomes where there once was none. Through our Brands SUUBI and EPOH, our In-Country Staff create long-term partnerships with Artisans to create beautiful handmade products that will soon grace the shoulders, necks, and wrists of fashion conscious consumers in America and beyond. 

In America LGH is committed to not only offering beautiful products and a way for people to support our Artisans in Africa, but LGH is also committed to creating experiences that call all of us to look outside ourselves, to find Beauty in the Risk , and to pursue big, beautiful, crazy dreams. 

Watch the video below to learn more about LGH and go to their website to see their beautiful products.  lightgivesheat.org

Join helponenow.org to a build school in Haiti.

 Charity Water

What a great gift, give a community without clean drinking water a well in someones name or a group name. Check out Charity Water.   They are doing some amazing things.

Charitywater.org

Our Mission is to inspire and empower ORDINARY people to make an extraordinary difference in the life of a child in need.

Go to ordinaryhero.org to see their merchandise, sponsor a child, or give a gift to help a child in Ethiopia.

My boys will be sporting a t-shirt from them this Christmas!!

 

 

How about sponsoring a child or giving a gift to an organization in another persons name.

Holtinternational.org

Compassioninternational.org

Worldvisiongifts.org

 

Samaritanspurse.org

Like I said just a few.  Let me know if you have any other ideas!  And don't forget your community.  Food shelves, homeless shelters, Ronald McDonald Houses, oh and maybe your very own NEIGHBOR!!!