Hooray for Alternative Gifts!
Options for special occasions, Vacation Bible School, Mother's Day and more!
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New Community Project is all about giving people good options -
from girls wanting to go to school rather than a sweatshop, to women
looking for skills training to help them reach their potential, to planting
trees and protecting forests to give nature - and us - a chance to thrive.
Same with our network - what are good alternatives when it comes to
showing appreciation for the people you care about? Or when looking for a special
project for a class, a club, Vacation Bible School or other event? We have a few ideas!
(If it's for an individual, pick one or more of the items below, let us know what you
want to give to whom by when, and we'll send them a gift card or send you a card
to give them - or print your own card from this file! If for a group, let us know if we
can provide promo materials.)
- Every $1 plants 10 trees in Africa or Asia or 2 mangrove saplings in Nigeria
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- $5 buys shoes for a schoolgirl
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- $8 buys a school kit (backpack, notebook, pens)
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- $40-$250 keeps a girl in school for a year (depends on the location and grade level;
an average would be $60, so $75 would outfit her with scholarship, shoes, backpack
and supplies)
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- $250 keeps a girl from a Chepang ethnic village in the mountains
of southern Nepal in secondary school for a year. Otherwise, finished
with school after fifth grade, they are vulnerable to early marriage
(as young as 13 or 14) or even being trafficked. They'll still walk two
hours down the mountain to school, but they're happy to do their part
for a brighter future. [Youth-friendly Powerpoint and script telling
their story!]
- $40-$500 provides a microloan for a woman in Myanmar, Nepal,
South Sudan or Congo to start a small business (of course any amount
is welcome, as we add it in with all other contributions and then send
the requested amount to our partners for distribution to the women's groups)
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- $80 buys a sheep for a Batwa (pygmy) woman in Rwanda - and she'll share an offspring
with a neighbor!
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- $200 gets a bike ($160) and a scholarship ($40) for a girl in Malawi
who lives 14 miles from high school
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- $140 buys a sewing machine for a tailoring course graduate in Congo or Rwanda
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- give a general gift to our Two (!) Million Tree Campaign or to Give a Girl a Chance
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Send pertinent gifting info to dradcliffncp@yahoo.com. Payment method is your choice: pay
on the Donate page of the website, Core budget tab (there's also a Venmo option there),
or send a check to NCP, 117 Nature Road, Blue Ridge, VA 24064. As always, 100 percent
of donations to our Special Projects go to the programs themselves - indeed!
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And there are always our cool NCP t-shirts - stylin' while promotin' an alternative world!
Samples below - varied colors and sizes available. $15 short-sleeved, $20 long-sleeved
(includes shipping).
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