A Virtual Gift Shop by eileen
Created on the 23rd February 2010.
This is a Virtual Gift Shop created by eileen. You can help overcome poverty and marginalisation by buying a gift from this shop. You can also create your own Gift Shop and contribute even more to a fairer, more just world.
Green Giving
Gift cards supporting people and the environment
Gift Selection:
Tree seedlings and land-care training will help a farmer address soil erosion and protect local water supplies. Depending on the variety, these trees will also provide animal fodder, fruit or fuel.
Training for families to grow sustainable and nutritious fruit and veggies without chemicals. Households can save seeds for future harvests and earn an income from selling surplus produce.
Global food shortage? Time for local action, through skills to help families increase the yield from their fields, and improve their diet, while caring for the land. Includes training in small-scale irrigation.
Pampered pet? Far from it! Goats earn their keep as providers of nutritious meat, milk and cheese. With training in animal husbandry, families can breed goats to pay for their children's education and health care.
When fully grown, heifers plough fields and provide fertiliser, milk, and offspring to increase local herds. When the first female calf is weaned, it is given to another poor household to share the benefits across the community.