Ethical Gifts
Posted: Tue 2 December, 2008 Filed under: Animals, Customer Services, Festering Season, Thoughts 1 Comment »In general, if I am going to be buying people gifts come the Festering Season, I’d rather get them something they actually want. Yes, it means it’s not such a surprise, but personally I don’t see the point of buying something that the recipient will find to be utterly useless.
For that, wishlists are bloody great – they keep the surprise, but at least you can list a number of things that you actually want, rather than “Oh, just buy me anything. You know me, you’ll find something“.
Anyway, for those times where people don’t have a wishlist, and do stick to the “Buy me any old thing” ethos, I now tend to buy an ethical gift (Water supply, chickens, etc. to some remote third-world area) rather than buying something useless. And so I thought I’d bung up a quick list of places with ideas I think are great…
- World Vision‘s “Must Have Gifts” for projects around the world.
- Sponsor A Tree do a number of Trees for Individuals in packs of 5,10, 20 or 30 trees
- Slightly more expensive is WaterAid’s shop where you can buy water supplies etc. for projects around the world
- In the UK, Garden Organic have the ability to Adopt a Vegetable, where £20 pays for the seed handling, propagation and storage in the Heritage Seed Library. There’s a list of the veg varieties available here.
- Still in the UK, you can also support the Cats Protection League or sponsor a dog through Dogs Trust (something Herself does already)
I’m sure there are plenty of others, but these are the ones I tend to support/use. If you know of any other good ones, add them to the comments!
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