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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Because of your support, families and their communities will recover from this setback and move forward with hope.
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
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:
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.
LEARN MORE
Our recent Evening of HOPE virtual event raised $394,000 to unlock opportunities for families in Sri Lanka to become self-reliant.
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.
”I am using my income to pay for groceries, household items, medicines, and the education of my oldest daughter, something I never had.” Fozia Jamal, small business owner
More than $39,000 was raised through In Her Hands. It will provide a group of remarkable women with tools to succeed in the coming months.This small business toolkit program supplies each woman with:
Women in Sargodha are ready to change their lives for themselves and their families. Friends of HOPE have helped 50 female entrepreneurs get the tools they need to start!
We’re celebrating International Women’s Day, March 8, by launching In Her Hands, a fundraising campaign to raise $40,000 this month so 50 women can change their lives through a unique small business program made by women, for women.
For women participating in the small business program it is about more than earning an income; it is about the intentional integration of women into the economy through the encouragement of female entrepreneurship and leadership.
Sonia Bibi, a women entrepreneur in Pakistan, tells her story.
I became a widow when my husband died 15 years ago, I was only 40. I have four daughters and one son, all of whom were studying at that time and suddenly I had no income. So I began to work as a daily labourer, moulding bricks at a brickyard. But I was always worried about my safety there as I faced a lot of harassment as a single woman.
Someone from my village recommended I visit the office of Taangh Wasaib Organization (TWO), a HOPE and tell them about my story. I entered the program and started a business buying and selling goats.
How did the program help you?
In my toolkit I received a small grant to buy my first goats. Currently, I am doing animal trade on a small scale. I purchase goats from different villages at a lower price and sell them at the animal market. I also attend different training workshops organized by TWO which have built my skills and confidence to handle the needs of my business. My communication and bargaining skills are improving day by day. Now, I earn more than enough for all of my family expenses and have been able to expand my business activity. With the success of my business my family is eating good food, can access healthcare, my children are getting a good education, and we are not worried about the daily expenses anymore.
What are your hopes for the future?
I have a plan to establish my own animal farm in the future where the breeding also takes place - currently, I am reinvesting a portion of my profits to buy more goats. I am also saving for my daughters’ weddings. I hope for more prosperity at my home in the future.
What are you most proud of?
In a patriarchal society, I am the head of my family and am fulfilling all of family’s needs. I feel stronger and safer with the help of my business. I am becoming a successful businesswoman.
