Top fifteen offers from 2009

COST	GIFT ITEM	DESCRIPTION	FACTS ABOUT GIFT OFFERS
$50	Two Hens and Rooster	Two hens and a Rooster can provide up to 150 eggs a year, which can be eaten, sold or hatched to provide a continual supply of nutritious food and essential income.	A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. Chickens are very social animals. They will fight to protect their family and will mourn when a loved one is lost.
$100	A Goat	One dairy goat can give up to 250 litres of milk a year. Two can be bred to produce 2 to 3 kids a year and eventually multiply into a while herd.	Goats were the first animals to be used for milk by humans. Worldwide, more people eat and drink milk from goats than any other animal.
$100	Stock a Medical Clinic	This gift will help stock clinic shelves with life-saving medicines like antibiotics, antimalarials, de-worming drugs, vitamins, aspirin, bandages, syringes, bed nets and more.	Two-thirds of child deaths around the world could be easily prevented with simple, low-cost medicines.
$35	Warm clothing for 25 children	Children in harsh climates need warm clothes and good shoes to protect them from freezing temperatures and sickness.	Toques became fashionable in Canada when fur traders began wearing woolen night caps during the day to stay warm.
$40	A piglet	One female piglet can produce a litter of piglets every year to sell. They are simple to raise and can weigh up to 90 pounds in three months.	Pigs can't look up at the sky. Pigs have no sweat glands, so they can't sweat. They roll around in the mud not to get dirty, but to get cool.
$30	Five Fruit Trees	Five fruit trees such as banana, papaya, mango and orange will be given to a family. This ripened fruit can provide children with essential vitamins such as A and C, boost their immune systems and prevent potentially deadly diseases. The fruit from these trees can also be sold for additional income.	Mangoes are an excellent source of vitamins A and C, both important antioxidant nutrients.
$50	Supply a Classroom	This gift will supply children with the tools they need to learn, like books, desks and chairs.	In some countries, children in rural schools often have to sit on the hard ground and have no desks to write on.
$35	Agricultural Pack	The Agricultural Pack includes supplies like crop seed, animal feed, tools, irrigation equipment, fertilizers, pest control and agricultural training. And when emergencies strike, food is provided to hungry families in need.	Three out of five farmers in Africa are subsistence farmers, growing only enough food for their own needs.
$30	Literacy for children	The gift of literacy for children provides storybooks, textbooks, literacy assistance, and student support.	There are at least 72 million children who cannot attend school each year due to poverty and discrimination.
$30	Antibiotics for 10 Children	This life saving gift will provide enough antibiotics to fight deadly infections.	Pneumonia is easily treated with antibiotics but less than 20 per cent of children with the disease receive the medicine they need.
$35	2 rabbits	Bunnies are fun to give and a great small business opportunity for a family. A pair of rabbits can produce up to 20 baby bunnies a year.	Rabbit meat is lower in cholesterol, fat and calories than chicken, pork or beef.
$30	3 soccer balls	For girls and boys around the world, real soccer balls are rare. At the sight of one, shouts of excitement erupt and a game instantly begins.	Around the world, children play with soccer balls made from rags, banana leaves, or even wads of plastic tied together with string.
$60	Educate a girl	In many countries, young girls never have the chance to go to school and achieve their dreams.
$30	2 Mosquito nets	Every 30 seconds, an African child dies of malaria. Family-sized, treated mosquito nets are a proven solution that can save the lives of about 500,000 African children every year.	Treated mosquito nets could help save the lives of roughly half a million African children every year.
$30	Feed a hungry family in Canada	One in 8 children in Canada lives below the poverty line. Your gift will help support the Food for Hungry Families Programme, which feeds at-risk Canadian families who live at or below the poverty level.	Each month, 770,000 people in Canada use a food bank. Forty percent of those relying on food banks are children.