When I received an email with "This holiday season, give the gift of a goat or manure" in the subject line, I was intrigued. And since I was all out of unique gift ideas, I kept reading. Oxfam American has offered to give one of my readers the gift of a goat this holiday season!
Oxfam America, part of Oxfam International, is a relief and development organization that helps alleviate hunger, povery and injustice in more than 90 countries. Oxfam creates partnerships and rather than providing short-term aid, works with local communities to create lasting solutions to poverty by helping people address the root cause themselves.
There are many ways you can help Oxfam this holiday season. I was blown away when I clicked through the list of gifts you can give. For instance, you can buy a pair of sheep for $90, a cow for $75, a water purifer for $35 or a vegetable garden for $30. A school meal program for one child is only $25. You can also buy books, blankets, art supplies, medical kits, and so much more.
Once you buy your gift, a card is mailed to whomever you want the gift to be from, and the gift goes to where it is needed the most.
During the holidays, I like to do as much as I can to help others, from organizing events at work supporting the Children's Aid Society, to donating old snowsuits to the snowsuit fund. This year, I'm also giving gifts from Oxfam America Unwrapped to several people on my shopping list. There is nothing more satisfying that giving someone a gift that will do so much good somewhere else in the world.
I am excited to be working with Oxfam America this holiday season.
If you would like to win a goat from Oxfam America, just leave me a comment telling me how you try to spread cheer and goodwill during the holidays.
If you win the goat, you will receive a card from Oxfam notifying you that a goat was donated in your name. You can also choose to give away the goat to someone else, too. I normally post all my giveaways on my review blog, but a goat is a pretty big deal!
I'll pick a winner randomly on December 3rd.
Good Luck!
Comments
As far as my good deed goes, my kids cleared out and donated their old toys last weekend.
xo Emily
Oxfam do good work. our giving this year hasn't yet been decided - hell, our entire holiday season hasn't really yet been thought about, ACK - but i can get behind a goat no matter what.
Oxfam is awesome - we give to a similar organization - Heifer. They're rad too!
I'm posting this to my face book!
The other day 2 kids came to my door selling pine cones. My heart sank when they told me their father was hiding out in the truck down the street. After I cried my eyes out, I approached him with a helping hand.