Not Your Average Top Christmas Gift Ideas - World Vision

Top, Best and Cheapest Christmas Gift Idea articles for 2010 are already swamping the web to saturation point so without wishing to further add to it, I offer you Something A Little Different.

I'm still on the Christmas theme, and it's still about buying and giving, it's just that these gifts are not for anyone you know. In fact, they are for people that actually really need them.

World Vision offer a selection of gifts for people in the developing world. These are people without sufficient resources to live what we know as a normal day-to-day life. Ranging from cradles for newborns to books and classes for students to vaccines and nursing for the sick and many other basic necessities which we all take for granted, there is something for everyone who needs it.  These are not gifts only for Christmas, these are charitable gifts available at any time of year, but they make an ideal gift for someone from you during the Holiday season.

1) Browse through the selection of World Vision gifts, and find something that may have special significance for the person whose gift you are buying. Whether it be a goat to provide milk and an income for a family, a football or a set of children's playscheme toys to a child who has lost everything, a vaccination against a life-threatening illness or school textbooks to enable more children to receive an education that we take for granted.

2) Place your order for the gift to be delivered directly to World Vision supported communities around the world.

3) Give the details of the "gift recipient" who will receive a card/certificate showing how their gift will make a positive lasting impact on a life or lives in a World Vision supported community.

It is that simple. Christmas shopping has never been more rewarding, charitable or straightforward. Just to reiterate, your gift is delivered directly to the community, it is not a money held in a central fund, so the people who need these items really do benefit.

You may notice that the prices for these charitable gifts are in pounds, not dollars. This is because these gifts are offered by Amazon.co.uk not Amazon.com, who do not appear to stock them. There is no shipping charge for any of these items. One British pound equates to one and a half US dollars, I have attached a currency converter for convenience.

10 Fruit Trees
Buy: £9.00

School Textbook
Buy: £6.00

Meal For 70 Children
Buy: £12.00

A Tap
Buy: £9.00

Emergency Cooking Sets
Buy: £12.00

A Football
Buy: £11.00

Train A Community Nurse
Buy: £25.00

Cradle For A Newborn
Buy: £31.00

Herd Of Goats
Buy new: £85.00

Vaccinations For 2 Children
Buy: £20.00

Blanket
Buy: £7.00

School Dinners For 3 Children
Buy: £28.00

Seeds For A Family Farm
Buy: £9.00

A School Uniform
Buy: £20.00

Reunite A Child
Buy: £46.00

Build A Well
Buy: £1,356.00

Buy A Llama
Buy: £45.00

4 Day Trips For A Child
Buy: £12.00

Lessons For 5 Children
Buy: £20.00

Play Scheme Toys
Buy: £39.00

Peace Scholarship For A Child
Buy: £28.00

Pair Of Llamas
Buy: £90.00

Plant 27 Trees
Buy: £81.00

Deliver A Baby
Buy: £58.00

If you believe, as I do, that giving any one of the gifts above is more valuable than many other over-priced, over-sold items available for Christmas this year, then please consider bookmarking this page, or taking a look at www.worldvision.org

Thanks.