Ten Thousand Villages Living Gifts
Ten Thousand Villages has created the opportunity to give a living gift to people who need training, food, school supplies, trees and more.
Other living gifts:
Care for Kids project: $19 provides one month of meals for an orphaned child.
- Make a Dream Come True: $58 provides school supplies for 25 students.
- Change a Life With Livestock: $33 buys a healthy goat and trains farmers to learn how to care for the animal.
- Barnyard Bliss: $330 gives a farm a cow, goat, pig, sheep and 18 rabbits!
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Shopping at Ten Thousand Villages
They are a self-supporting Fair Trade Organization that contributes to benefiting artisans that need help from low-income countries.
By supporting them or buying their products, you help give people fair wages so that they can feed their families and maintain the dignity and respect they deserve. Another bonus is that the products you buy there are supported by fair trade, come from sustainable sources and contribute to benefiting everyone.
- If you would like to read about creating your own handmade things, Barbara Waters is knitting all sorts of interesting items at Knitting Passion.
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