Does your holiday shopping list look anything like this?

Smartphone: $499. eReader: $199. New boots: $150. Long lines. Busy parking lots.

If this sounds familiar, save your anxiety and wallet and celebrate the true spirit of Christmas by giving a gift that can change lives. Use this as your guide to some meaningful (and inexpensive) holiday gifts from World Vision!

Popular & Meaningful Gifts
Choose a gift to donate in honor of someone special, and get a free card to let them know. Browse among more than 100 gift ideas online. Your gift will bring help and lasting hope for a child, family, or community in need.

$35 per month: Sponsoring a child is the best Christmas gift you can give. World Vision sponsors help provide children with the basic building blocks for a better life: clean water, nutritious food, healthcare, education, economic development and more. And child sponsorship provides such benefits not just for the sponsored child, but his or her family and community as well!

Starting at $60: One in every five people in the world lives on less than $1.25 a day. But with gifts that empower, you can give a small business owner the help he or she needs to escape this cycle of despair. And when the loan is repaid, it’s recycled to help even more entrepreneurs in need!

Starting at $30: Give loved ones a World of Change Giving Card and let them pick out their own gifts this year.

$35: Three guinea pigs can help a hard-working family earn vital income. These animals are easy to breed, grow quickly and make a great small business.

$30: Five fruit trees—including bananas, oranges, mango and other healthy fruit trees—help provide the vitamins and nutrients growing kids need. Perfect for the gardener on your Christmas list!

$30: Two mosquito nets can help save little ones from the deathly threat of malaria-bearing mosquitoes—one of the number one killers of children in sub-Saharan Africa.

$35: For this small donation, you can help provide over $100 worth of clothing for 25 children. Thanks to our generous corporate partners, your gift will multiply three times to ship and if needed, purchase, brand-new jackets, clothes and boots.

$32: Imagine being denied an education, simply because you’re a girl. More than 36 million girls worldwide are forced to stay home. But you can help change that for one little girl.

$75: Help provide hope for sexually exploited children. An estimated 2 million children are enslaved and abused in the global commercial sex trade. Most of them are girls. Your gift will offer girls assistance like safe shelter, medical care, vocational training, compassionate counseling and, where possible, reintegration into a loving family environment.

Gifts That Will Help Canadian Families
Here at home, one in 8 children live in poverty, unable to afford basic necessities like nutritious food, or school supplies. You can make a difference.

$25: Help a little one living in Canada by providing essential school supplies like pencils, notebooks, rulers, crayons and more. Perfect for the teacher in your life!

$30: Feed a hungry family in Canada, living at or below the poverty line.

Small Price, Big Impact!
Give a donation that will multiply in impact thanks to our generous corporate supporters!

$35: An agricultural pack can help lift families out of poverty, providing them with supplies like crop seed, animal feed, tools, irrigation equipment and much more. Thanks to donations from the World Food Programme, your gift will multiply 3 times in value.

$100: Stock a medical clinic and help save lives, with supplies like antibiotics, anti-malarials, de-worming drugs, aspirin, bandages and more! Plus, see your impact multiply 17 times in value!

$50: Know someone with a passion for education? Honour them with the Supply a Classroom gift and help transform the learning experience of impoverished children. What’s more, your gift will multiply 15 times in value to provide even more books, pencils, paper, notebooks, rulers and art supplies!