Gift Catalogue Learning Tools
Reference material and lesson activities
Grades: K to 4 and 5 to 8
Price: Free

Through World Vision's Gift Catalogue program , classes can give meaningful gifts to children, families, and communities in need. These resources include learning activities that demonstrate how the gifts are used.

All Star Gifts (Grades K to 4)
This resource includes games and activities that help young children learn about hunger and poverty.

Understanding Community Development (Grades 5 to 8)
This resource includes activities that demonstrate how community development works.  

Emergency Response
Reference material and lesson activities
Grades: 9 to 12
Price: Free

This resource explores the causes and effects of disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies. It looks at humanitarian relief operations and World Vision's response model and provides a case study of the international response to the Asian tsunami. 

The Valley
Video and study guide
Grades: 9 to 12
Price: $19.99 (school price), $149.99 (school board price)

In this 55-minute video, 90-year-old Baba Damtew recalls the changes in his central Ethiopian valley as he and his community lived through years of war, famine, relief aid, and development. The video shows how, with the assistance of World Vision Ethiopia, Damtew's community has taken steps to reverse years of environmental destruction and can now look forward to a brighter future. This video comes with a study guide.

Transforming Lives
DVD with study guide (also available in VHS format)
Grades: 9 to 12
Price: $19.99 (school price), $149.99 (school board price)

This 17-minute video explains international development by telling the story of community development in the Samuye region of Tanzania. Transforming Lives is a hopeful story of community empowerment and change, told by the people who are making it happen—the Tanzanians themselves. Click here to download free lessons for senior geography and civics courses. Click here to download the study guide. (also available in French)

Emergency Response and Community Development / Global Citizenship /
HIV and AIDS / Human Rights / Hunger and Poverty  / Water and the Environment