What's on your list this year?
A little comparison shopping
| Item |
Cost |
What that buys from World Vision's Gift Catalogue |
| Coffee-table book |
$35 |
Harvest packs, containing seeds and tools, and advanced agricultural training to help struggling farmers. |
| Electronic baby doll that eats, drinks and squirms |
$50 |
Give a backpack stuffed with school supplies to two Canadian children living in a low-income household. |
| Woman's handbag |
$120 |
Help a child labourer avoid exploitation through access to education, advocacy and direct assistance. |
| Boxed DVD set of a TV series |
$200 |
Eight hens and four roosters, providing two families each with up to 150 eggs a year. |
| Silk dress |
$295 |
Access to medication to help three HIV-positive mothers avoid infecting their babies plus clothing for 50 children. |
| Nano-tech MP3 player |
$300 |
Provide a source of clean water for two African families. |
| Bottle of skin cream from France (50 ml) |
$380 |
Antibiotics for 60 children plus seed money and assistance for two women in Zambia to start their own businesses. |
| Digital camera |
$450 |
Feed 300 hungry children for a month. |
| Portable DVD player |
$500 |
Moringa trees for four families, providing them with an excellent lifelong source of vitamins and nutrients. |
| Leather recliner |
$700 |
Immunize children against preventable diseases in seven different communities. |
| High-end interactive video-game console |
$1,000 |
Furnish two classrooms in a developing country with chairs, desks, blackboards and tables. |
| Treadmill |
$2,000 |
Stock 20 medical clinics with vital supplies, including syringes, IV kits, painkillers, sterile bandages and medicines. |
| Plasma TV |
$4,000 |
Build a home for children orphaned by AIDS. |
| SUV |
$50,000 |
Provide loans to 500 budding entrepreneurs in developing countries. |
| Sapphire and diamond necklace |
$315,000 |
Help an entire community by funding a five-year community development project, benefiting up to 10,000 people ($250,000) plus drill two wells, construct five latrines, drill one borehole, install 10 hand pumps and train 22 community members ($50,000) plus provide nutrition and health care for 400 children ($10,000) plus construct one classroom and rehabilitate another ($5,000). |
