Top ten Christmas charity gifts

By shelling out for six chickens, you can help feed a family all year round. One chicken alone can lay up to 200 eggs a year, which provides food and nourishment. By selling the surplus eggs or by hatching chicks throughout the year, a family can earn money for other necessities. Olivier and Kevin care for their family chickens, a gift from Concern and thanks to the proceeds, Olivier and Kevin can now attend school and look forward to a bright future. This egg-cellent gift really is a Christmas cracker!

Mosquito nets are a simple but effective way of protecting people against Malaria, keeping mosquitoes at bay and enabling a family to sleep safe and sound. Now, Brothers Salomon, David, Issa, and Selemani can sleep soundly together under the safety of their mosquito net. 

Families with limited food resources often eat the same simple meals to fill their stomachs. Often, these meals don't provide healthy nutrients that are especially important for growing children. Concern provides the seeds and training needed for families to grow their own home gardens. This will provide families with nutritious vegetables such as spinach and tomatoes that can enrich their diet.

Christmas is all about snuggling up with your loved ones, far away from the cold outside! Wrap a family displaced by war, conflict or natural disaster up in thermal blankets, and keep them safe from extreme weather conditions. This is a gift that will truly warm hearts!

All children should dream and aspire to be whatever they want to be. You can give a child the best start in life by investing in their education. The gift of education is truly lifesaving for children like Elizabeth from Nairobi. Elizabeth attends St. Francis School, and each day she goes to class, she becomes more empowered to lead a healthier, more productive life. This gift could help children like Elizabeth to shape their future and lead a life free from poverty.

This little piggy would make the perfect gift for a family. Pigs are affordable and super easy to look after. Better yet, they grow up to provide income and security, especially when they have little piglets of their own! Violette received a pig that she lovingly cares for, thanks to Concern Gifts. She can relax in the knowledge that she will have piglets to sell at the market. This necessary income enables Violette to send her children to school. She can now look forward to a better future for herself and her family.

Implemented by our potato programme to diversify livelihood options for farmers in highland areas, this incredibly versatile crop is now being grown by 5,000 families! The humble spud is useful for nutrition, as well as income generation and with high productivity on a small amount of land, these very aPEELing vegetables are truly improving the lives of many.

For a start, they provide 200,000 glasses of milk in their lifetime, which is an essential source of calcium for everyone in the family, particularly vulnerable little ones. Cows also produce lots of manure, a blessing in disguise to keep the land fed and happy! All in all, great moos for cow owners!

Reminds most people of doing the dishes right? Imagine you didn't have these items at home? What would you cook with? What would you eat from? These basic household items allow families to cook and eat hygienically, preventing illnesses from spreading and protecting those who are especially vulnerable.

These compact contraptions can cook all types of food quickly and hygienically, can boil water to clear bacteria and burn wood more efficiently than traditional stoves. This means that families don't deplete their wood store so quickly and these stoves can help to preserve forests.

Concern gifts are the alternative gifts offering from Concern Worldwide and help support our work in 24 of the world’s poorest countries. If you didn't quite find the gift that you were looking for, have a look at our full catalogue online.