| Gift List for the Group : Selection A - A broad mix of charities/gifts |
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The gift of mobility |
For many, irreversible blindness can lead to a life of hardship. We support education and rehabilitation training for those who will never see again. For example, a folding white cane enables people like Akwalinganira to get around on their own, regaining a life of independence. |
10.00 |
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One HeadStrong session |
Hair loss following treatment can be a devastating reminder of the impact breast cancer has on everyday life. Your donation could enable one person to attend HeadStrong, providing emotional support and practical tips to people who are coping with hair loss after treatment, giving them vital confidence. |
10.00 |
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Therapeutic session – cuddle a pig |
Your donation could enable us to send a person with a learning disability to a petting zoo, enabling them to experience something new and exciting. |
15.00 |
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A month's education at Masaka school |
In Africa the needs of disabled children often come last on the list, but HOPEHIV has built a new school in Uganda for children with hearing and speech impairments, most of whom have been orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS. Your donation could cover a month's schooling. |
15.00 |
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The gift of sight |
Buy the gift of sight. Bisola, is just one person who has benefited from Sightsavers’ eye care work. She had bilateral cataract from the age of 2, but a simple operation restored her sight. This gift will help us to continue our vital work in this area. |
17.00 |
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Information Packs |
24,000 teenagers are admitted to hospital in the UK each year after deliberately harming themselves. Your donation could pay for 18 Schools Information Packs - reaching out at what can be the most stressful time of teenagers' lives. |
20.00 |
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Specialist Training for a Breast Care Nurse |
Your donation could pay for a breast care nurse to attend specialist Breast Cancer Care training events, ensuring they are up to date with advances in the field of breast cancer and can offer the best possible service and support to their patients. |
20.00 |
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Physiotherapy for two people for one month |
Help individuals in recovery and healing - at our New Steps project in Sierra Leone thousands are victims of polio and civil war. Amputees are treated with prosthetics, assistive mobility devices like crutches, and physical therapy. |
25.00 |
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Children's toys and books |
Our Children and Families Projects offer children affected by HIV safe environments in which to play without fear of prejudice, taunts or discrimination. Your gift could enable us to purchase books, soft toys and puzzles to encourage them to interact and create lasting, supportive friendships. |
25.00 |
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Educate a young person |
Many of the vulnerable young people we work with have had little or no formal sex and relationships education. Your donation could run a session which provides them with the information and confidence to make safe and healthy choices about sexual health and helps to prevent HIV and other STI infections. |
30.00 |
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Equip a young peer educator |
GoLD (Generation of Leaders Discovered), an organisation based in Cape Town, uses a peer education approach - your donation could equip one of the teenage ‘opinion formers’ to become positive role models and agents of change in their communities, helping to reduce HIV infection rates amongst their friends. |
30.00 |
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The gift of specs |
Many people are 'blind' just because they lack a pair of spectacles. They are one of the simplest ways of improving the lives of people with poor vision. Your gift could provide eye tests and spectacles for 20 people, living with avoidable blindness. |
34.00 |
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Run a phone line for a day |
We provide confidential emotional support, 24 hours a day 7 days a week, for people of all ages who are in emotional distress - your donation covers the costs of a phone line manned by volunteers for 24 hours. |
35.00 |
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Learn and play |
With your donation we could buy much needed specialist toys for children with a learning disability at Segal House, a nursery for children with special needs. |
35.00 |
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Telephone Support Group |
Our unique Telephone Support Groups bring together 10 women living with breast cancer for practical and emotional support. Your donation could pay for two people to be part of the group, run by a specially trained therapist and a breast care nurse. |
35.00 |
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Help grieving orphans learn to play again |
HOPEHIV has funded work in Botswana since 2002, including a programme of Adventure Camps and Kids' Clubs. Your donation covers the costs for start up play kits for a community kids club, giving orphans back some of the childhood fun they have missed because of AIDS. |
45.00 |
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The gift of sight |
Trachoma is a painful eye disease caused by poverty, which is a priority for Sightsavers. In the advanced stages the eyelashes rub against the eyeball, causing agony. Just £50 could help support operations for 10 people and halt their pain. |
50.00 |
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Realising a dream |
Help a person with learning disability realise a dream. Your donation could pay for a simulated flight, an art course or classes where they can learn something new. |
50.00 |
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Prosthesis Fitting |
Your donation could cover an appointment at our prosthesis fitting service, which gives women invaluable time with a specially trained fitter to try on different types and styles of prostheses in a secure and comfortable environment and learn about lingerie that is most suitable for use with prostheses. |
50.00 |
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One-hour HIV test and advice |
“After testing positive at the Terrence Higgins Trust fasTEST clinic I just wanted to run out of the door. But then I thought, “Who am I running to?” I realised that the people who could help me through this were right there with me. I’m not sure what I’d have done without them.” – John, age 27 |
54.00 |
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Support Line |
12 million people in the UK are on antidepressants. Last year we received over 2.5 million contacts by telephone. Cover the costs of keeping an emotional support line running for 1 day, helping people to see a way through their emotional distress. |
55.00 |
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Kids Camp for an AIDS orphan |
HOPEHIV has funded a programme of Adventure Camps and Kids' Clubs in a number of countries in Africa. Your donation covers the costs for a child to go on a 5 day Kids' Camp offering adventure activities, bereavement counselling, group work and psycho-social support. |
60.00 |
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Dental Treatments |
Allow us to deliver dental treatments to 10 people in a developing country in Africa. In some countries there is one dentist for every 100,000 to 150,000 people. Mercy Ships dentists provide basic dental care, extraction, cleaning and surgery - relieving pain and bringing hope and healing. |
60.00 |
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A little sunshine |
Our understanding of the world around us is enhanced by the use of our five senses. Your donation could enable us to buy special sensory equipment that will make a difference to the lives of children with one or more sensory impairments. |
70.00 |
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The gift of education |
90% of children who are blind in the developing world do not receive any formal education. Your gift could pay for the training of a mainstream teacher, enabling them to teach low vision or blind children in a local school. |
72.00 |
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Healthy Living Day |
Healthy Living Days complement NHS breast cancer services and introduce women to a range of complimentary therapies, nutritional advice and exercise tips during their treatment cycle. Your donation could enable one person to attend a Healthy Living Day, which offers a caring and supportive environment to learn and share their experiences. |
80.00 |
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A cleft lip and palate operation |
Allow us to deliver a cleft lip and palate corrective surgery operation (the second most common birth defect worldwide). Newborns with cleft lips in developing countries may only live a short time through being unable to feed. Your donation could help to transform a life physically, emotionally and socially. |
85.00 |
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Volunteer training |
4.8 million people contacted Samaritans last year by phone, email and face to face visits. Our trained volunteers provide 24 hour emotional support. Your donation could pay for the recruitment and training of one new volunteer, to continue providing a dedicated service. |
100.00 |
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A support group for mothers and children with HIV |
Many mothers and children living with HIV don't have anyone to talk to and can become very isolated. £100 could enable us to hire a safe venue for five support groups, allowing mothers and their children to talk without fear about their concerns for the first time and receive the confidential advice they need. |
100.00 |
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Train a Volunteer |
All of our volunteers have personal experience of breast cancer and are an integral part of the support network we offer to people with breast cancer and their families throughout the UK. Your donation could train one volunteer to deliver the support, information and understanding that is so essential. |
100.00 |
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Communication |
It can be very difficult to communicate your needs and views if you have a learning disability.
Your donation could pay for a child who has difficulty speaking to go to a workshop to learn sign language. |
100.00 |
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Educational supplies |
HOPEHIV funds nursery schools for orphaned pre-school children - your donation could buy equip a new preschool with all the educational supplies it needs. |
110.00 |
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Community Health Education teams |
Our Community Health Education (CHE) teams travel to local villages in developing nations and work with community leaders providing training in basic hygiene and preventative health care. Help us fund 1 team in a village project. |
120.00 |
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The gift of training |
Support the training of local eye surgeons to provide long-term investment, helping us to continue our vital eye care work. This gift could pay for a 2 week training course for a surgeon just like Bakary Cesay, who can now do 2,000 cataract surgeries a year. |
150.00 |
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Vocational training |
Many teenage children in Africa are forced to become carers and breadwinners before their time. Your donation could pay for residential vocational training for an older orphan (in areas such as tailoring, mechanics, farming, electrician) and set them up in business. |
180.00 |
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A much needed break |
Many families with a severely disabled son or daughter struggle to get any kind of a break from full time caring.
Your donation could pay for a supported holiday for a person with a learning disability giving everyone a much needed break. |
200.00 |
