World Vision Alternative Gifts started in 2000. People love it because they really value the unique gifts they can buy for their
friends and family, while changing the lives of some of the world's poorest children and families.
As a result, for example, over 5,000 children have been immunised against six childhood killer diseases. Today, over 12,000 fruit trees have
been planted, growing plenty of nutritious produce to eat and sell. Almost 3,000 children have had their sight restored through cataract operations.
Your response means even more good things will happen around the world. Here's how World Vision has helped communities, families and children in
their fight out of poverty.
 | | “My children’s education and basic needs are supported by income from goats,” says Janet Kondwani, mother of five. Janet received a billy goat from a supporter through World Vision Alternative Gifts, allowing her to breed goats to sell to cover school fees. And the milk helps to keep her youngest daughter, 7-year-old Mphatso, healthy and strong.
Click here to buy a goat |
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 | | A couple from Bristol, Simon and Rosie Satchell opted for ‘alternative gifts’ such as chickens, immunisations for children and vegetable starter kits for a poor community in Zambia. Many couples just like Simon and Rosie are making a lasting difference with a Alternative Wedding Wish list.
Click here to set up a Wedding Wish list |
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 | | For indigenous children living in the mountains of Bolivia, the gift of a birth certificate and ID card is amazingly life changing. Two little girls were the first recipients of ID cards in the Wiñaypaj area...
Click here to buy two birth certificates |
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 | | “My daughter’s temperature was very high and she had diarrhoea,” said Elphrida. “That was the longest night of my life…but now we have a clinic right at our doorstep!”
Click here to buy great health gifts |
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“It was absolutely a horrible situation; imagine 660 students in one school and no bathroom facilities,” said Bledar, a senior in high school and a member of the student government. “It was hard and embarrassing for girls to use the bathroom,” said Edona, a junior in high school.
Click here to buy a toilet |
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 | | Your gift of plastic sheeting helped thousands of displaced Sudanese to build shelters for their families. Learn more by clicking the link above.
Click here to buy the gift of emergency shelter |
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 | | “For as long as I remember we have been poor and we have always struggled to put bread on the table,” said Nik Doshi. However, life for the Doshi family has been much better since the family received four sheep from World Vision Alternative Gifts...
Click here to buy a sheep |
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For two little girls in Bihar, north-eastern India, the emergency cooksets World Vision supporters have bought in the UK are more than a fun gift idea. Pinky and Pooja, both 5 years old, live in Narsara, a small village in the Darbhanga district of Bihar.
Click here to buy a cookset |
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 | | In Huambo Province, Angola, an Alternative Gift bicycle means a lot more than just transport. The 50 bikes bought by World Vision supporters in the UK, are giving 50 health activists the ability to reach more children and families in the remote villages of Huambo, taking vital health information to places normally inaccessible.
Click here to buy a bike |
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 | | The children at Ibrahima Nima School in Senegal are benefiting from the Alternative Gift of some sheep, donated by World Vision Supporters in the UK. As well as providing an income for the school, the sheep are used in lessons to teach the children about breeding and raising livestock – valuable skills in this area, where much of the land is ideal for this sort of farming.
Click here to buy a sheep |
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 | | In Malda, India, 4 schools and 139 families received toilets from World Vision Alternative Gift, bought by supporters here in Britain. Having a toilet means more than comfort, the improved hygiene it allows means that water and food sources are less likely to become contaminated, making water borne diseases much less common.
Click here to buy a toilet |
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A popular alternative gift has been an ox. The Corano family farm in Chioco, Mozambique, is thriving again thanks to the pair of oxen provided to them through World Vision Alternative Gifts. Along with the oxen, the Corano family also received a plough, making it possible for them to cultivate all their land, giving the six children more time for studying and playing.
Click here to buy a llama for a farmer in Bolivia |