- Church of St John the Baptist in Cairo - food packages and immunizations for refugees, literacy classes, etc.
- Art Enables - paintings and prints by disabled artists, including the works of Sonny, Mo, Mike and Eileen, 4 core members in the l'Arche DC community.
- Heartbeats - handcrafted items (jewelry, soaps) and fair trade products from minority and developing world women artists
- Koinonia Farm - baked goods, chocolate, pecans, books, and fair trade coffee and tea
- World Vision - farm animals, water pumps, fruit trees, malaria medications, and more!
- Ten Thousand Villages - program of Mennonite Central Committee, one of the oldest and largest fair trade organizations in the world, selling fairly trades items from diverse cultures
- Angel Tree - give gifts to children of incarcerated parents
- Heifer Project - flock of ducks, trio of rabbits, trees, goats, cows
- L'Arche Noah Sealth of Seattle - cards, candles made by community members
- Putumayo World Music - international music label that contributes to non-profits in countries where music originates
- Mercy Corps - family garden kits, child health kits, women's small business kits, etc.
- Global Exchange - fairly traded crafts from around the world, fair trade action kits and holiday gift baskets, books and cds
- Oxfam America - school desks, can of worms, spinning wheels, sheep, mosquito nets, and crocodiles!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Alternative Christmas gifts...
Thought I would compile a list of some alternative/charitable/equitable gift ideas for the Christmas/Hanukkah season. Enjoy.
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I went to the heifer project base camp when I was 13. They had a weekend activity where you had to learn to live in a "3rd world ecosystem" or something like that to awaken global awareness. There were different ones with different resources, and if you traded them correctly, then you could actually eat. Not everyone ate. I decided that our system should kill the rabbit, which was our resource. They said that if we were going to eat it, we had to watch it be killed. My sister and I, who had grown up in a country were a trip to the market involved walking past a myriad of dead animals at the butchers, sat there and watched it die and helped skin it while a bunch of girls from an mississippi youth group sat there crying for the bunny. vivid memory.
So yeah... heifer project. Actually, their NGO side is really great. We have bought stuff through them before, really good.
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