World Vision Must Have Gifts are extra-ordinary charity gifts for your family and friends. They’re real – helping vulnerable children and families in the world’s hardest places – and they won’t end up at the back of the cupboard (or in the bin!).
Choose a gift that will truly be appreciated.
When any young girl starts her period, she can feel anxious or afraid. Girls feel isolated, miss school during their periods and fall behind in class. This amazing gift is simple and practical, could restore a girl’s dignity, and help her to continue her education.
above: Nurhaba, 10, smiles while holding her new sanitary kit
–Bangladesh. © 2018 World Vision.
You could provide a family with enough anti-bacterial soap to protect them for two months. Anti-bacterial soap can slow the spread of coronavirus and protect children and their families from diarrhoea and diseases such as cholera or typhoid.
above: Following the WHO guidelines, Suzi, 10, washes her hands after playing with her friends – South Sudan. © 2020 World Vision
Disasters can strike quickly and without warning. They can cut off basic services, including water. This gift could provide a family with a water filter so they can have clean water each day, for drinking, cooking and washing to help them recover after an emergency.
above: Tuyishimire, nine, gulps clean water out of his hands.
– Rwanda. © 2018 World Vision
Mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures in the world, causing fatal diseases such as malaria. And bed nets are essential to protect children from them. Your gift could buy a bed net and protect a child from nasty mosquito bites and deadly diseases.
above: Ellena’s children used to be at the mercy of mosquito bites and malaria. Now, she has enough mosquito nets to protect her whole family – Malawi. © 2019 World Vision
With this gift you could protect a child, an adolescent girl and a whole community. The health bundle could provide a treated mosquito net, a girl’s sanitary kit and communal handwashing facilities.
above: Zoya 9 lives with her parents and sister. She is sponsored child who loves to help her mother cook.
- Bangladesh. © 2021 World Vision
With this gift, children around the world could learn to read. You could give a selection of 10 books to an after-school reading club – each written in the local language and reflecting familiar customs and traditions.
above: Primary school pupil Lwandile and his classmates find it easier to learn thanks to their new books. “I used to struggle with learning but now am improving,” he says – Zimbabwe. © 2019 World Vision
This reading gift could open a window to a better life for a child, like 15-year-old Evelyn: “It has always been my dream to become a science teacher. There are few female science teachers in my country, and I want to become one. I live in a remote area where textbooks are hard to find. Besides this, my parents can’t afford to buy me textbooks.”
above: Evelyn, 15, proudly shows her science book – Malawi. © 2018 World Vision
With this gift, you could provide activity packs for 10 children affected by the coronavirus pandemic. With pencils, a writing book, puzzles and games in their own language, these packs promise fun and engaging opportunities to learn for all children.
above: children are delighted with their activity packs – Bangladesh. © 2020 World Vision
This gift could provide an adolescent girl with empowerment classes. In these sessions, girls can gain skills, learn about their rights and get support to protect themselves from different types of violence. The classes also provide a safe space where they can use their voices to tackle crucial issues like child marriage.
above: Girls and boys attend an empowerment class in Bangladesh. Eka, 14 (red headband), stopped her proposed marriage after learning about girls’ rights. © 2019 World Vision
Child Friendly Spaces are remarkable places. In the chaos of emergencies, they give children a place to play, learn and simply be children again.This gift could provide children with a safe space to play for three months, giving disasters’ youngest survivors a sanctuary where they can enjoy structured activities and start to heal after trauma or loss.
above: Jannatul, five, loves attending the Child Friendly Space near her shelter in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. © 2019 World Vision
This gift of mango, avocado and papaya seedlings could start a tree nursery, and provide fresh, sweet food for many years to come. This simple gift could help parents to provide nutritious and vitamin[1]rich food for their children. It’s a gift that will keep on giving.
above: Evelyn, 45, holds some of the mangoes she grows – Uganda. © 2018 World Vision
A pair of chickens could bring their own gifts to a family. Their eggs enrich the diets of children, like seven-year-old Thomas. His family is one of the hundreds of families in South Sudan who have received chickens, thanks to you and supporters like you. Chickens can also be sold – along with new chicks – to raise extra income. And even their manure can be used to fertilise vegetable gardens.
above : Thomas, seven, loves his chickens. Every evening, he carefully makes sure they’re safely tucked up in their nesting box – South Sudan. © 2018 World Vision
Goats make great gifts. They give nourishment to a family and can be bred and sold for extra income too. Debby’s family received five goats from World Vision in 2013, one male and four females. Her father, Obby, says the goats transformed their lives. By giving the gift of a goat you could make a real and lasting difference in another family’s future.
above : Debby, seven, with one of her family’s goats – Zambia. © 2018 World Vision
This gift could transform the life of a severely ill, acutely malnourished child. It’s a full recovery package including:
•awareness raising for a whole community
• a place at a stabilisation centre where they can be nursed back to health
• and treatment (therapeutic food and medicines, and continued weight and health checks).
above : Emergency nutrition packets are given to malnourished baby, Minara, 19 months, at a World Vision nutrition centre in Bangladesh. © 2019 World Vision
This gift could help give food to a family of five for2 month. Family food packs are filled with nutritious ingredients for basic, healthy meals. By choosing this gift, you could help a family in crisis, like Monira and her children, to survive.
above : Refugee mother Monira feeds her children, Jisma and Kaiser in Bangladesh. © 2019 World Vision
