What Is Charitable Gifting?
Charitable gifting can happen all year long through GFA World’s charitable gift catalog. There are many options available to choose from, and the gifts are distributed according to need by local GFA-supported pastors and missionaries. These faithful ministers know the local community and understand how best to allocate gifts that can make a large difference in breaking someone out of the cycle of poverty.
These gifts come in many forms—livestock, skills training, blankets, warm clothes, water wells, literacy training, toilets and more.
Raylea[1] is a widow in an Asian culture where widows are often considered cursed and even blamed for their husband’s death. As the mother of two young children, she needed to provide for her family daily. It was a bleak scenario, with no hope in sight.
Things changed for Raylea when she was gifted two goats through a GFA Christmas gift distribution. She sold the goats’ milk at the market to provide her children with new clothing, food and school uniforms. She also served the protein- and calcium-rich milk to her children to help them grow up strong.
She was so thankful for this life-changing gift that she donated a goat to her local church so another family could be blessed along with her. As a widow once enduring without hope, Raylea’s life has been transformed by the generosity of others.
Farm animals can be an extraordinary factor for change in the lives of the destitute. As Palmer Holt of InChrist Communications says, “Alleviating extreme poverty around the world remains one of the most daunting challenges of our time. But there are effective ways to help poor families overcome impoverishment, like the gifting of income-producing farm animals.”[2]
These gifts are not a quick fix; they are a long-term program. The families receive instructions on how to care for the animals correctly, and this helps lift them out of poverty for good. As the animals reproduce, the farm grows and the profits increase.
We invite you to browse through our gift catalog and select something that you can be passionate about giving. It may be a farm animal—like the goats Raylea received—or you may want to give a sewing machine or a literacy class to a woman who needs hope for the future. Or maybe you want to gift a pure water well to an entire community in need. You can be the bringer of that hope today. Browse our catalog for current suggested donations.
Learn more about charitable Christmas gift ideas through GFA World[1] Holt, Palmer. “A surprising antidote to world poverty: Farm animals. November 30, 2021. https://www.gfa.org/special-report/solutions-poverty-farm-animals.
[2] Ibid.