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Gift Ideas for $10 - $24Your gift will allow on student to enroll for one year in the Youth Leadership Academy (YLA), an innovative, Internet-based, multi-media curriculum that teaches life skills to teens in a language and manner that thoroughly engages them. more We will ensure that the children in El Salvadore and Ethiopia where we have active programs in place will receive the school supplies that they need to succeed in school. We will buy pencils, paper, erasers, rulers, small calculators, compasses, protractors, notebooks, and, yes, even a computer or two when we can. more Your gift will provide someone with one advance care planning packet containing everything needed to create and activate a legal advance directive. Decisions about end-of-life care are deeply personal, based on an individual’s values and beliefs. more Your donation will help support Sisimpur the Bengali version of Sesame Street. With a curriculum defined by Bangladeshi educators, the series emphasizes not only literacy, math and science, but also helps foster values such as self-respect, empathy and cooperation. more People living with Alzheimer’s and caregivers often face an overwhelming number of issues associated with the disease. more Your gift will provide one annual subscription to a national newspaper. No other bi-monthly publication provides comprehensive in-depth coverage of aging issues. A special In Focus section provides advances in practice, policy and research for professionals serving older adults and their communities. more Your donation will restore hope to farmers living in a post-conflict war zone. By clearing the enough land of landmines and planting one grape vine, your gift will help restore the livelihood and the dignity of self-sufficiency to a farmer. more Plan’s health programs attend to the nutritional needs of children even before the child is born. Infants and toddlers are monitored to ensure the proper weight for age—signs that the child is growing normally. more Your donation will focus on helping people prepare food and water that’s safe. A slow-burning, fuel-efficient cookstove, a kerosene stove, a pot, cooking utensils, soap for dishwashing – all will take some of the risk out of eating. more In countries where human rights are often violated, legal aid plays a crucial role: the most decisive indicator of the reduction of abuse and torture is the early presence of a defense attorney. By actively working with local legal aid offices and lawyers, we can prevent human rights abuses from ever happening. more Your gift will assist farmers to organize themselves into farmer's organization and gather enough quantities of bananas to sell in bulk and consecutively buy their own trucks to transport bananas to bigger markets. more You can help a child who is sick, perhaps even save a life. Your donation will purchase critically needed medicines such as antiobiotics and vaccines for children living in impoverished countries where International Releif Teams serves. more |