1. World Gifts Enterprise Day
Introduction

2. What are World Gifts?
An alternative gift scheme – a catalogue full of gifts that make a lasting difference
Gifts work in two ways:
something attractive for a friend or relative and
a real gift given, by a CAFOD partner, to someone in the developing world
World Gifts is a fundraising initiative which takes the form of an alternative gift catalogue.
The catalogue contains a range of 26 gifts – tangible things that CAFOD’s partners are providing to people in the developing world – like chickens, emergency basics kits, water, school starter packs, vegetable gardens and bicycles.
When a supporter buys something from the catalogue they are effectively buying gifts for two people:
- a ‘feelgood’ gift for their friend or relative
- and a life-changing gift for someone overseas

3. A gift of fresh clean water.
A whole family can soak up the benefits of having fresh water for drinking, cooking and washing without the risk of potentially fatal, waterborne
diseases.
Water for a family £30
A gift of fresh clean water.

4. Marta Attahiru from Nigeria, is so thankful for the water filter which provides clean water for her and her sons to drink. Previously they had no choice but to drink dirty water collected from the local dam. Her sons became desperately ill with Hepatitis B and
Marta faced expensive hospital bills.
Single parent Marta went to a workshop run by CAFOD’s partner the Archdiocese of Jos, to find out about contaminated
water and the benefits of water filters She learned how to recognise the symptoms of waterborne diseases, and how to set up a filter and maintain it. Marta is overjoyed that now the water she gives to her children won’t harm them.

5. Teach someone to read £10
Reading can open so many doors –
education, work, pleasure and self improvement
– and it’s never too late
to learn. This gift can pay
to train adult literacy teachers and
provide books.

6. 39-year-old Ean Poise from Cambodia, is living proof that learning to read doesn’t just change one life; it can transform
the lives of a whole community.
Since receiving literacy training from one of CAFOD’s local partner organisations, Ean has used her new skills to help her village, Samrong, to thrive. She organises regular meetings where villagers discuss what improvements need to be made in their community. After listening to peoples’ concerns and ideas Ean then writes a report, recommending which improvements the village should invest in. As a result, Samrong now has better roads, a school and a credit scheme to help villagers set up new businesses. Ean has even started a small library in her own home to encourage her neighbours to read.
Thanks to her natural leadership and the skills she has learned, Ean has recently been elected village chief – she is the
first woman in her community ever to hold this position.

7. Bicycle £50
A bicycle can help a community worker bring life-saving
medical treatment and care, or vital support
and counselling, to people living in remote
areas where help simply isn’t available.

8. When 22-year-old Jean-Pierre has to visit someone in distress, he knows he can get to them quickly on his new bicycle
from CAFOD.
As a volunteer counsellor and chairperson of an association called Twuzuzanye – Let’s join hands – Jean- Pierre offers vital emotional and practical support to 54 young people who were orphaned in the Rwandan genocide.
Jean-Pierre himself lost his parents and seven siblings in the genocide – so he knows how important this support is. The group’s members support each other through the difficulties of life as an orphan, helping each other to cope

9. Mother and baby care £30
Inspired by students from St Joseph’s Catholic College in Bradford.
Training birth attendants in pre- and post-natal care can give a new mum and her baby a much better chance of survival.
This gift can also pay for new equipment and vaccines to give babies a much safer, healthier start in life.

10. Having a baby is a wonderful moment in any woman’s life, but in Nigeria it is also fraught with danger. When Sarah
discovered she was pregnant with her first child, she began visiting St Monica’s health clinic, which is supported by CAFOD.
In a country where it is traditionally difficult for women to get medical help when they are pregnant, Sarah knew
that receiving the care of an experienced midwife could literally mean the difference between life and death.
In the expert hands of Sister Teclar, Sarah had monthly check-ups and vaccinations. And when Sarah went into labour, Sister
Teclar delivered her baby safely. Sarah is now determined to build on her daughter’s good start in life by bringing her to
the clinic for regular medical checks and vaccinations.

11. Pair of piglets £25
When
the piglets, or their off -spring go
to market, they’ll help provide
a poor family with extra money
for food, education or medicines.

12. In the last few years, life has got a lotbetter for Ruth and her family who live in a remote corner of Zamboanga del Sur province in the Philippines. Today, Ruth has enough food to feed her family and some much needed extra income which means she can afford to send her children to school. Before, she could barely put food on the table.
The family began their inspiring journey out of poverty with the arrival of two piglets. Our partner provided Ruth with a hog and a sow and taught her how to breed pigs. From these small beginnings, their household has come on in leaps and bounds. The pigs now provide them with food and an income, as the family sells some of their pigs’ offspring at market. In fact, this extra income has enabled Ruth to replace their old, leaky grassroofed hut with a brick house.

13. Temporary shelter £9
The gift of a temporary shelter
can provide a family who have lost
their home due to natural disaster or
conflict, with a roof over their heads.

14. When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, it left deep cracks in the walls of Phenol’s home. Understandably, his family is now too fearful to live in the building. As he says, “It’s too dangerous.”
CAFOD provided a large tent which Phenol has pitched in the family garden. It means that they can stay together on their own property and stay dry in the rainy season. Additional plastic sheeting has meant that Phenol has managed to make room for 17 of his neighbours to take shelter too!
With their homes in ruins, this simple shelter gives them somewhere to sleep, protection from the weather and a ray of
hope for the future. Since the earthquake CAFOD have distributed emergency shelter kits to over 60,000 people.
For Phenol, a tent gave his family a safe, temporary home in the aftermath of the earthquake.