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A £10 Gift Gets What?

If you've got £10 to spend on a charity, then you literally have a huge choice of gifts.

So lets have a look at the kind of charity gifts you can give.

School books are a good start. The gift will buy a number of textbooks for poor schools. In Africa, schools can go years without ever having a textbook that children can use. We take them for granted here, so why not help less fortunate kids around the world get a good start in their schools?

But it needn't stop at textbooks. Schools in impoverished countries are desperate for all the basics, including writing materials, paper, uniforms, even seats and desks. And many need help with even providing a child a basic meal a day; the only food a school child might get all day.

If you want to help with a country's infrastructure and help provide fresh drinking water, then ten pounds can go a long way in helping to provide the necessary bits and pieces for a safe drinking water system close to a community. Your money will be spent on buying the various components that make up such systems, including stand-pipes, taps, pumps and tanks. It's worth bearing in mind that fresh water will dramatically alter village life, relieving the community, especially the women, of the daily horrors of trying to find fresh water.

Another great way of helping and one growing in popularity, is helping to provide animals for a poor village. A ten pound gift will be enough to allow many villagers to buy chicks from a poultry rearing scheme. Just a few chicks, brought up by a family, will eventually provide mature chickens that can provide eggs for the family's consumption, or as a product to be sold.

This idea can be extended to other livestock animals, including most popularly nowadays goats, which your money will go towards providing. Your money might well buy a share of the goat, or go towards its upkeep, or materials for its shelter. But wherever it goes, gifts like these can literally help to keep people alive.

To stay on this food theme for a moment, a £10 charity gift buys a lot of vegetable seeds for growers who in many parts of the world have nothing with which to start growing crops. For many villagers, it's not just a question of popping down the road and buying seeds from the store. Successive crop failures, floods, droughts and all manner of natural disasters means that even if they could afford to buy seed, none of it is available.

And if not seeds, then a tenner could go towards tree seedlings, which again will help villages throughout the world get a vital start in money-making enterprises.

Closer to home there are a wide range of £10 charity gifts available, to help children in the U.K., or adults who have fallen on tough times and need the help and compassion of a caring charity.

There are also initiatives that benefit animals in the U.K. who have been deserted by owners, or injured, and require veterinarian attention.

So, remember, a £10 charity gift can go a long way and make a real difference to a whole load of people out there, whether here, or abroad.

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