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AlterNativity 2011 www.alternativity.org

….doing Christmas differently!

More about this year’s charity gifts ….. available from Saturday, 5th November until December 5th

  • WORKLINK

£1.50 Diesel for the Worklink van used for collection and delivery of items. Local families who would otherwise not be able to replace broken items use this service also volunteer training.

  • CHRISTIAN AID

This year choose either ‘a pair of chick for a family in Bolivia @ £2.50’ or ‘a goat for a family in Bangladesh @ £7’.  Both these item provide food and an income for these families.

  • Derbyshire Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA)

The gift is ‘£10 towards the cost of consumable medical equipment for a person in an emergency situation in the local counties’.

  • SNIPS

This year you can buy ‘1 hour respite care for a person with learning difficulties in Hinckley @ £2.50’.

  • ADAPT Prembabies

A favourite gift ‘2.50 buys a baby pack for parents whose pre term baby requires special care in one of the baby units in local hospitals’.

  • INTERCARE

The gift is ‘50 quinine phosphate injections to treat 6 patients with malaria which is one of the biggest killers in Sub Saharan Africa @£5’.

  • BIBLE SOCIETY

£4 buys a Bible for a Christian living in Sudan’ in their own language.

  • FEED THE HUNGRY (UK)

New to AlterNativity for this year. The gift is food for 100 children in the Sudan @ £4’.

  • CAFOD

‘Business Start Up in Bee Keeping, Baking or Basket Weaving for an adult in countries such as Peru @ £8’

  • HINCKLEY HOMELESS

‘£5 buys a small bedding bale for a resident in Hinckley’ or £10 for a large bedding bale’.

  • SALVATION ARMY

The gift is ‘a Christmas food pack for a single person in Hinckley @ £5’ or ‘£10 for a family of four’

  • JESUIT NEVETT FUND

‘£5 Buys essential school books and equipment for a destitute child in South India’.

  • SEND A COW

This year’s gift is ‘Build a Tip Tap, hand washer to reduce diseases for a family in Lesotho where there is no running water@ £6’. 

  • KARIBUNI TRUST - ‘Food for a term for a child from a drought affected area in Kenya @ £15’.
  • LEPROSY MISSION

This year’s gift is bandages which are vital in the treatment of leprosy and other illnesses in the Leprosy Mission Naini Community Hospital wards, India @ £20’.

  • HEALTH ACTION LEICESTER for ETHIOPIA (HALE)

A new charity to AlterNativity. The gift is ‘9 month course of iron supplements to help and Ethiopian mother have a healthy pregnancy @ £5’.

  • MORNING STAR MINISTRIES

‘£18 will pay for a month’s full board at Morning Star Residential school for a child from the slum area in India’.

  • AIM FOR CHANGE

The gift is ‘A 3 foot, quick growing mango tree to generate income for a new orphanage in Pakistan or for the people of the bush in Uganda @ £10’.

  • SIGHTSAVERS - ‘£17 is all it takes to perform a cataract operation and restore the sight of a person in a country where Sight Savers are working’.
  • MERCY SHIPS

Mercy Ships can carry out a cleft lip operation for £40.  The gift is ‘half of the cost of a cleft lip surgery for a patient in Togo, West Africa @ £20’.