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The Ultimate Christmas Gift Catalog

Still looking for the perfect Christmas gift for someone special? Well let me suggest this resource. World Vision has a 2005 Christmas Gift Catalog from which you can send meaningful gifts for the person who has everything. For only $150, you can provide a family with a sewing machine that will not only help in making clothes for themselves, it can also become a source of income. For $150 you can help a disabled child by giving the gift of mobility in the form of a wheelchair. $50 will give a family 4 chickens which will provide food for a few meals, or eggs for a much longer period of time. But what I'm absolutely amazed at is how $35 will help support young girls who have been rescued from sex trade.

Every Christmas we get bombarded by the materialism of our society and get so caught up in the busy-ness of the season that it becomes easy to forget about the less fortunate. Whether its through World Vision or another organization, or just a need that you see that no one else is taking care of, I hope you will stop to consider how you can help.

Comments

Thanks for promoting this catalog, Sarah. I show it to my kids to help them understand how some children and families in other parts of the world live (except for the sex trade part, of course!) We have purchased/given some of these gifts as well.

Posted by: Bonnie at December 12, 2005 8:45 PM

These are the gifts we purchased "for" our extended families this year. Samaritan's Purse has something similar. I loved being able to print out a gift card and customize it for the recipient as well. The hardest part was choosing!

Posted by: Keer at January 1, 2006 4:53 PM

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