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Alternative Gifts

Alternative giving opportunities listed in increments

   
             
 
   
         
 

Photo of women filling jerry cans and bowls with water
A capped spring. Photo: Larry Sthreshley

 

$100 - $400 — supports the capping or protection of a fresh water spring to ensure a regular supply of clean, safe water.

$250 — provides a community in Nicaragua affected by Hurricane Felix a basic tool kit for debris removal, roof repairs, cleanup of communal spaces and agricultural plots and rebuilding of houses. The kit includes shovels, mattocks, wheelbarrows, pickaxes, machetes and chainsaws.

$150 — enables a PDA National Response Team member to minister to pastors and communities affected by disaster.

$127 — supports a farmer group in producing disease resistant cassava, a vital food staple that provides vitamins and protein.

$125 — provides an emergency life pack to help disaster survivors pick up the pieces of their lives. Each life pack contains a tarpaulin, two blankets, a cooking set, two jerry cans for water, high protein biscuits and soap for one family.

Photo of PDA volunteer and woman going into her front door
A Katrina survivor comes home. Photo: Joe Williams

$200 — provides drywall, and
$100 — provides a front door to a home being rebuilt in the Gulf Coast for Hurricane Katrina survivors.

 
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$65 — provides the material to build a treadle pump that will irrigate a family farm.

Photo of producer association members in front of palm tree
A high yielding palm tree and palm producer association. Photo: Wayne Niles

$60 — provides the implements to produce one hectare of palms grown for oil production

$50 — provides 25 two-by-four wall studs for a home being rebuilt in the Gulf Coast for Hurricane Katrina survivors.

$50 — provides a Lowe's or Home Depot gift card used by volunteer work teams to purchase building supplies in the Gulf Coast for Hurricane Katrina survivors. Purchase the gift cards and mail to:

Presbyterian Volunteer Village
16148 Robinson Rd.
Gulfport, MS 39503

 
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$20 — provides a bicycle with platforms for women in Kenya to carry water.

$20 — provides five gallons of paint for a home being rebuilt in the Gulf Coast for Hurricane Katrina survivors.

$13.00 provides a school kit filled with supplies to replace those lost due to disaster.

$12.00 provides a hygiene (health) kit with basic personal hygiene items offering dignity to disaster survivors.

$12 provides a family with a jerry can to carry clean, safe and palatable water for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene.

$5.00 provides a warm, dry blanket for someone whose home is flooded after a hurricane.

$3.50 provides seeds for a farm family in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Your gift will help families to feed themselves.

 
             
 
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