2. Real Gifts are life changing, inspirational gifts that will mean a better life for someone living in poverty.

3. SCIAF Real Gifts supply lots of essential items from school books to wheelchair repair kits or different animals like pigs, sheep and goats. They even supply water wells that will supply a WHOLE village with clean safe drinking water!

4. Pigs! Families can feed and nurture pigs until they are big enough to sell. The money can be used to buy more healthy nutritious food. When the pigs breed, the family can sell the piglets to earn extra income to pay for other essentials like school fees and medicines.

5. The families will look after the pigs so that they grow big and can be sold

6. The piglets can be sold by the families to earn some extra money

7. From the extra money earned, families will be able to pay for school fees and medicine

8. The pigs also produce manure which can be used to fertilise the fields

9. Help plant an allotment In Colombia this gift provides seeds, tools and training to build an allotment. In the Choco region of Colombia, four out of five people live below the poverty line.

10. Fact file: Colombia Capital city: Bogota Population: 46,927,125 Size: 1,142,000 km² Life expectancy: 74 years Religion: Christianity Currency: Colombian Peso

11. SCIAF works in Colombia to ensure families have enough to eat and are able to send their children to school.

12. The allotment provides excellent opportunities for the children to learn too.

13. It will supply food for the whole community.

14. By providing seeds and tools the community, including children, will be able to grow their own food.

15. Thank you Created by SCIAF, Photo Credits: Sean Sprague, Thomas Omondi, SCIAF www.sciaf.org.uk/realgifts