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Days to Amaze -
Days to Amaze – What’s this?
Days to Amaze are one of a number of Gift Experience web sites who solve the problem
of what to buy for those special people in your life. They offer far more than just
the Flying Lessons and Race Track Days. There are more relaxing, Pampering and Spa
days.
Give a unique gift experience they'll never forget!
Whether it's flying through the sky, sprinting across the water, speeding around
a racetrack, being spoilt on a spa day or any one of hundreds of very special gifts
ideas - Activity Gifts promise it'll will be an amazing experience.
They're perfect for birthday presents, anniversary gifts, Christmas gifts and Valentine's
Day romance - or just to say a well deserved "thank you".
With Activity Gifts if it turns out your friend would prefer a race track day instead of a flying lesson that isn't a problem. Experience vouchers are easily swapped, free of charge. You only pay any difference in price.
Your friend receives the very well presented gift pack and normally has ten months to redeem the Experience Voucher.
Large Corporations have realised the value of Gift Experience by rewarding performing
employees with Days to Amaze experiences. These unique rewards are better remembered
than any equivalent pay out of high street vouchers. These gifts have true value,
not just a cost price.
Of course it's not just Activity Gifts offering Gift Experience Days there's Sir
Richard Branson’s highly respected Virgin Experience Days and also Exhilaration who
have super, kids activities. There’s also Red Letter Days who pioneered the concept
of giving unforgettable experiences.
The activities offered by Experience Day providers
are not only adrenaline rush adventures, there are spa break indulgences, pampering,
relaxing beauty treatments and even a trip in a hot air balloon.
There is an inspirational gift to suit everyone, you'll want to send yourself a gift!
Charitable Gifts – that make a difference!
Oxfam Unwrapped
Don’t know what to give? How about a donkey for your dad? Build a bog for your brother? Get a goat for your granny?
Famously unusual gifts for people you care about.This really is where you can buy your friend a ‘Goat’ or a ‘Donkey’.
What on earth am I on about, take a look here at Oxfam Unwrapped they can explain
it far better than I can.
UNICEF helps children receive the support, health care and education they need to
survive the threats of childhood poverty - such as preventable disease or malnutrition
- and grow up to become healthy adults.
Support their work by visiting their online shop at UNICEF.org/uk a UK registered charity.
They stock a range of items from Christmas Cards, Greeting Cards, Gifts, Calendars & Diaries and Children's Games, books and toys. The big benefit of shopping here is that the money raised helps children around the world.
For example:
10 cards...
can provide Vitamin A Capsules to help protect 80 young children against
blindness for 6 months.
20 cards...
could allow UNICEF to provide vaccines to immunise 40 children against
measles, which kills almost 800,000 children each year.
60 cards...
could provide 4 insecticide-treated mosquito nets to protect families
from malaria.
Unsure of what UNICEF does?
UNICEF helps children receive the support, health care and education they need to
survive the threats of childhood poverty - such as preventable disease or malnutrition
- and grow up to become healthy adults.
They encourage families to educate girls as well as boys, so both men and women can play a full role in family life and broader society.
They strive to protect children from violence and abuse, and from exploitation through child labour or trafficking.
They protect children in the midst of war and natural disasters, and provide emergency assistance, usually within 48 hours.
Ethical Gifts and Fairtrade Products
Fair trade seeks to transform the lives of poor producers in the developing world by enabling them to use their skills and resources to trade their way out of poverty.
The fantastic charity Traidcraft helps to achieve this, take a look at Traidcraft.co.uk and select Online Shop or go direct to their ethical shop at traidcraftshop.co.uk
What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade seeks to challenge injustices in trading structures and practices that so often lead to the exploitation and marginalisation of poor people.
Key elements of fair trade - Fair trade sets out to:
• create opportunities for poor producers
• ensure trading practices are fair, both in terms of payment and prices
• ensure that children are not being exploited
• ensure there is no discrimination
• ensure working conditions are safe.
What Traidcraft do:
As an organisation committed to fair trade, Traidcraft:
• focuses on trading with poor and marginalised producer groups, helping them develop skills and sustainable livelihoods through the trading relationship.
• pays fair prices that cover the full cost of production and enable a living wage and other fair rewards to be earned by producers.
• provides credit when needed to allow orders to be fulfilled and pays premiums to be used to provide further benefits to producer communities.
• encourages the fair treatment of all workers, ensuring good conditions in the workplace and throughout the supply chain.
• aims to build up long-term relationships, rather than looking for short-term commercial
advantage.
The Fairtrade Mark
Some key fair trade food products can be identified by the Fairtrade logo on their packaging. The logo is certified by the Fairtrade Foundation. Traidcraft is a founder member of the Foundation.
Sales of fair trade products have been gaining momentum in the UK in recent years, and they are now more widely available than ever before. Figures released by the Fairtrade Foundation show that sales of Marked products are worth £300m per year.
Visit the traidcraftshop.co.uk/
Tear Fund. Who are we and what do we do?
While nearly half the world’s population (2.8 billion people) now live on less than $2 a day and 600 million children are among those living on less than $1 a day – in absolute poverty – there’s no doubt that this situation must change.
We are Christians passionate about the local church bringing justice and transforming lives – overcoming global poverty.
So our ten-year vision is to see 50 million people released from material and spiritual
poverty through a worldwide network of 100,000 local churches.
The local church is central to who we are and what we do. If you go to church then part of the solution to poverty is you. We’re asking you to be part of this miracle. Imagine:
…you’re a youth group in Exeter,
who washed cars for cash,
and sent money to Tearfund,
who
funded a church in Ethiopia,
to bring education and advice to a village,
which enabled
a generation of children to be born HIV-free.
We believe that to be a Christian, wherever
you are, is to be called to a life-time’s mission of responding to need here and
now – pressing need, the social injustices that need to be restored alongside eternal,
salvation needs.
We believe that to be a Christian, wherever you are, is to be called to a life-
Read more about them at tearfund.org.
Tearfund has unusual gifts on their sister site livinggifts.org.uk
The Gifts you purchase through charities like these, UNICEF /
Oxfam / Traidcraft
and Tearfund will have a lasting and positive influence on some of the Worlds most
marginalised young and old people alike.
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Quote –
‘THE OPPOSITE OF
LOVE IS NOT HATE,
BUT INDIFFERENCE’
Philip Yancey, Prayer
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Latest News: Help hatch hope today
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
The chicken provided by CIPCA, of course!
Present Aid’s partner in Bolivia has been working in El Beni, the poorest region
of the country, to help families there.
They provide families there with 18 hens,
two cockerels and training in how to look after them, so they can get eggs to eat
and sell. A gift like this could give a family an eggsellent chance of beating poverty.
Go on, think a little differently, and make a real difference - just £31 could provide
a brood of chicks which could help to secure a poor family’s future.
To view this and other quacking good gift ideas and to order online visit www.presentaid.org
