An Ethical XMAS this year

https://plancanada.ca/gifts09

Gift a gift that keeps giving to a community. I am buying a mango tree, I know its not much, but one tree yelds fruit, fruit can be eaten or sold, producing income.

Next year I want to buy a sewing machine for a community.

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3 replies since 25th November 2009 • Last reply 25th November 2009

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I am also donating to local animal shelters (no kill shelters)

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Thats really cool Happy

Im making all my gifts this year, since Im short on cash. But I asked my family to make donations to Kiva or Worldvision (or something along those lines) instead of buying my gifts.

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I don't celebrate any holidays, and it bums my mom out that I won't accept Christmas gifts. Instead, we usually go to the mall and find the Christmas tree with needy kids on it. We buy two Christmases or more, depending on what we can afford. Also, a lot of the larger chain bookstores have trees for needy kids and you buy books for them. Whenever mom and I do it, we don't give them cheap, plastic crap. We usually go to WalMart or Target and the sales rack at Gap Kids and buy them two outfits of cheap, but cute and really useful/practical clothing. We buy them books and something like a puzzle or a fun, learning toy. I find it to be really rewarding.

Last year, we saw two bikes at the tree. (Children who request bikes rarely receive them, because they are so expensive.) A woman who lost her son always chose a child that would be her son's age and bought them whatever she would have bought her son, bike, whatever. I thought that was just fantastic!

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