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Christmas is for everyone with gifts that give hope!

Choose from a wide selection of gifts for under your tree, family, friends or co-workers and feel good as your gifts spark hope, joy and opportunity for families who need it most. 

Every gift you give, including artisan crafted blankets, baskets, toys and housewares, provides hope and opportunity for families currently experiencing extreme poverty as it supports clean water, food security and learning for children and adults - all of which ensure families can step out of poverty.

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GIFTS THAT GIVE HOPE are compassion in action this Christmas.

Hope and opportunity spring up the moment your gifts arrive! These thoughtful gifts leave warm memories past the season.

The clean water, food security, livelihood training and education you provide will ignite hope right away and for years to come.

SHOP GIFTS OF CLEAN WATER & HEALTH

Gifts of clean water, safe sanitation and health supports start something big. Good health, more time for family and livelihood begin as soon as the water flows in a community.

SHOP GIFTS OF FOOD SECURITY

Gifts of reliable sources of nutritious milk, plow power, fertilizer and sustainable income are just a few of the big benefits creatures great and small bring to rural families.

SHOP GIFTS OF LEARNING & EDUCATION

Gifts that enable children to reach their full potential with safe places to learn, schoolbooks, supplies and healthy daily meals change lives today and tomorrow.

SHOP GIFTS THAT HELP WOMEN BECOME SELF-RELIANT

Help women in Nepal and India become self-reliant with skills training and support to start small businesses that generate reliable income and empower them to be active decision-makers in their communities.

We're on a mission to get 20,000 people clean water this fall

Clean water is life and when it flows from a new tap so do opportunities that put families in control of their future!

Within weeks of having clean water minutes from their homes, health and vitality emerges among families. Hope rises and brings with it a vision of new opportunities.

In just months, families are able to invest the time they once spent sourcing water into schooling, livelihood training and small businesses. People start to see a way out of extreme poverty - and it all begins with water.

"We had hope and could see a better future," says Chhai, a mother in Cambodia who gained access to clean water.

HOPE is embarking on an ambitious initiative. Help 20,000 people get clean water this fall. Our vision is to invest into 100 taps in 100 days, opening access to clean water as soon as possible.

Your gift will ensure mothers like Shancote, in Ethiopia, won't ever again say, "We never know what's in our water. But we use it because we have no choice."

Dirty water should never be an option, let alone the only one. Join families as they construct their water systems and change their lives.

Transform lives with your gift of $75, $250, $500 towards the $5,000 it costs to make clean water flow from a brand new tap.

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Children and youth in Ethiopia are tapping into their potential.

Recently, HOPE supporters committed to help children and youth in the slums of Addis who've lost one or both parents.

Children are getting the tools they need to build a future for themselves full of new opportunities.

Our partner in Addis reports children and youth are receiving life-transforming resources that will enable them to dream and achieve their goals, just like Natnael did when he became a Pharmacist.

Because of your generosity and new donors joining with us, children have increased access to: 

• Medical care, counselling, home visits
• School uniforms and shoes, books, backpacks and school supplies
• Transportation to and from school
• Warm meals and food (or dry goods) to take home

These services and resources mean children can go and stay in school, play with friends, dream big dreams for their future and feel safe in their community.

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Urgent needs of 2,500 people have been met with your help.

Haiti is close to the heart of HOPE supporters and you dug deep this past month to ensure the people affected by a massive earthquake in August get emergency services.

Our partner in Haiti reports work is underway to provide assistance to people in the 3 communities where HOPE works.

Through your compassion in action, HOPE supporters like you are helping provide:

• Emergency surgeries for people severely injured
• Medical supplies and medications for community members injured
• Counselling support to help people overcome trauma
• Ongoing medical support through 4 nurses and 4 doctors

Because of your support, families and their communities will recover from this setback and move forward with hope.

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HOPE has been standing with people in Haiti since 2010 when a massive earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince. Devastation has happened again.

Today, the 2,500 Haitian people we work with are very present in our thoughts and very much in need. Many in the 3 communities have been injured. Nearly all have lost their farms and with it, their family security.

As you know, 1,400 people were killed and more than 6,900 injured when a powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake levelled towns and villages 100 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince recently.

The weight of responsibility to 2,500 people weighs heavy. HOPE must send help to people that matter to us. We can't do everything, but we can help these families. Please, put your compassion into action again and send emergency relief to families in southwestern Haiti.

Your gift of $100, $250, $500 will provide urgently needed:

• Food provisions

• Temporary shelters

• Medicines, such as antibiotics and pain relievers

• Water purification tablets

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Your gift to save lives in Tigray, Ethiopia gets matched 4X!

"More than 400,000 people have crossed the threshold into famine and 1.8 million people are on the brink of famine". United Nations Aid chief Ramesh Rajasingham

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The people of Ethiopia are precious to HOPE. It’s where our work began and our hearts are heavy right now knowing what families in the north are facing.Conflict surrounds the region and famine threatens so very many.  But we can take action and be tangible compassion.

HOPE is joining efforts with two like-minded agencies to send humanitarian relief for Tigrayan IDP’s and refugees to increase the collective impact of our efforts and to address a critical and dire situation facing people caught in the conflict plaguing Ethiopia.

Mothers and children are most at risk right now.  They are the focus of our efforts. UNICEF reports that 140,000 children are facing level 5 famine-like conditions in the area as a result of the Tigray crisis.

"There is the risk of a loss of life running into the hundreds of thousands or worse," says Mark Lowcock of the UN.

Given the size of the crisis, please be as generous as you can and make the most of the 4X match. 

Your gift of $100, $250, $500 will save even more lives when matched as it provides:

• Emergency food provisions
• Emergency shelter
• Access to medical care

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The strength and resiliency of people like Nadeeka means poverty can be overcome

Before HOPE supporters put their compassion into action, Nadeeka and her family struggled significantly. There was never enough food to eat, no medicine for her ailing son, and no job prospects to support her family.

Today, just one year later, Nadeeka is the proud owner of a thriving sewing business. The income she earns enables her to feed her family every day, pay tuition for her school aged children, buy medicine when needed and save for the future.

Nadeeka was even able to add a room to her modest home so her children, now excelling in school, have a place to study. 

The same training and support Nadeeka received as a member of a HOPE-supported Self-Help group member will transform other families.

Putting compassion into action today will support women in their efforts to earn sustainable livelihoods through small businesses like rope making, mushroom growing, organic farming, dairy production and more.

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MOVE FOR H2O

In 2020 the world changed, so we did too. Formerly the Run for H2O, Move for H2O has expanded to include all the things you love to do!

Move for H2O will be held virtually across Canada! This event is open to all ages, skill levels, and number of legs (dogs are, of course, encouraged to participate). Pick any day over June 18th - 27th to complete your activity, and reach your fundraising goal.

No matter who you are or how you like to move, you are invited to join hundreds of participants across Canada as we work together to raise $200,000 for clean water.

Whichever activity you choose to do, and whatever distance you do it, you will be part of a team that is dedicated to helping 2,128 people in El Capotillo, Dominican Republic build a water system in their community!

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Our recent Evening of HOPE virtual event raised $394,000 to unlock opportunities for families in Sri Lanka to become self-reliant.

WATCH FILM

The premiere of our latest film, HOPE in Sri Lanka, featured three families living in Hambantota, and the changes that are possible with training and small loans to start a small business.

Livelihood Training

Skills training is enabling women across Hambantota to earn a sustainable livelihood through mushroom cultivation, rope making, organic farming, dairy farming and more.

Access to Loans

Small loans, from a revolving loan fund owned and run by the women using it, are enabling women to start small businesses that lift their families out of poverty.

Small Business

Using their loans, women start small businesses and join a network of other business owners supporting each other to create and market products.

Join us from the comfort of your home on Thursday, May 6, for a one hour virtual event to create real change for families in Hambantota, Sri Lanka.

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