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Gifted is the alternative gift programme of Christian World Service (CWS). It has a gift for every occasion – all gifts help people overcome poverty and injustice in their local communities. So your gift gives twice – once for Christmas, birthdays, Mother’s Day, to say thanks or just because AND once to people in need around the world.
All gifts directly support current CWS community development programmes. Donations to CWS’s work are made on behalf of your gift recipient.
The Gifted programme provides fun and meaningful gifts. Donors and gift recipients get a strong sense of what their donations help achieve while also meeting local needs and creating long term change.
Select your Gift from the options—pick the gift, outcome, or price that suits you best. CWS will send you a card featuring your gift and space for your message and an envelope. You can send or give the card to friend or family – or keep it for yourself. Choose the ecard option and save on paper and postage. Your purchase becomes a donation to a programme that is helping people improve their lives and livelihoods.
Energy For Life
This year we are introducing a new gift category: Energy for Life.
Energy poverty is now a major absence that drives a downward spiral for many of the world’s most vulnerable. Our energy gifts compliment every other gift in the catalogue. For example, a healthy water system for one family can become a healthy water system for an entire community when a solar‑powered water treatment plant is built. With this new category added to the others in the enclosed catalogue, your gift — and your sharing of gifts with others this Christmas — helps our most vulnerable global neighbours gain access to the basic necessities of life, necessities we in Aotearoa New Zealand often take for granted.
We are often told how much joy our supporters experience in giving these practical gifts. They love sending our gift cards to friends and family and hearing how these gifts uplift the lives of those we serve. Others tell us they also experience great joy when they choose our gifts for themselves.
This year’s catalogue includes gifts within six categories of urgent need for people facing injustice and poverty: • Water and Sanitation • Emergency Relief • Food and Agriculture • Child Health, Welfare, and Education • Livelihoods • Energy Each gift is designed to help people begin to enjoy a better, less impoverished life.
