{"id":1637,"date":"2009-12-02T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/other\/web-sites\/oxfam-unwrapped-a-small-gift-big-difference"},"modified":"2009-12-02T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T10:47:00","slug":"oxfam-unwrapped-a-small-gift-big-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/other\/web-sites\/oxfam-unwrapped-a-small-gift-big-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxfam Unwrapped A Small Gift &#8211; Big Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/images\/oxfam-unwrapped\/drinking.jpg\" class=\"right\" alt=\" Oxfam Unwrapped Small Gift - Big Difference\" \/>Looking for a way to make a small Christmas charitable gift, then look no further &#8211; Oxfam&#8217;s poverty busting activities and services are neatly packaged into small gifts with a big difference, with their Oxfam Unwrapped project!<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT WORKS:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Choose a gift<\/strong><br \/>\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s masses of choice \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from goats and cows to teachers and health workers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you can even help build a bog if you like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you get<\/strong><br \/>\nNow you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve selected a gift you can choose to send a printed gift card that features a nice little picture of the gift; there are plenty to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to make your gift that little bit sweeter you can add a box of fair-trade chocolates, or a little gift book that explains how Oxfam Unwrapped gifts help change lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You change lives<\/strong><br \/>\nOxfam Unwrapped always gets your gift to where it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needed most, and gifts are sourced in the country they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re used in wherever possible.<\/p>\n<p>SOME EXAMPLES:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safe water for 10 people &#8211; \u00c2\u00a310<\/strong><br \/>\nFew gifts are more important than this. Your gift helps set up or maintain a safe water supply, whatever the circumstances, in whatever form it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needed.<br \/>\nE.g. Set up a school or village for the first time, or restore the supply after an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured here are flood survivors Zujeta 5, (centre) and Lute 6, taking full advantage of fresh water from pumps built by Oxfam. Mutarara district. Zambezi river region. Copyright Andy Hall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feed a family &#8211; \u00c2\u00a37<\/strong><br \/>\nEmergency rations are a priority for crisis-hit families and this gift is the edible equivalent of first aid. Oxfam will be there with the essential eats \u00e2\u20ac\u201c grain, beans, oil, salt and sugar &#8211; to keep everyone going until normality is restored\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 bags of seeds \u00c2\u00a310<\/strong><br \/>\nSow the seed of self-sufficiency by filling these sacks with quality crops-to-be. Oxfam will get them to local farmers with the need for seed. They can be stored in a seed bank for harder times or sown to grow crops to eat or sell.<br \/>\nAnd lots more\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/shop\/oxfam-unwrapped\" title=\"OXFAM UNWRAPPED\"> the Oxfam website<\/a>.<br \/>\nTel:  (0300) 200 1252<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a way to make a small Christmas charitable gift, then look no further &#8211; Oxfam&#8217;s poverty busting activities and services are neatly packaged into small gifts with a big difference, with their Oxfam Unwrapped project! HOW IT WORKS: Choose a gift There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s masses of choice \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from goats and cows to teachers and health workers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you can even help build a bog if you like. What you get Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve selected a gift you can choose to send a printed gift card that features a nice little picture of the gift; there are plenty to choose from. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/other\/web-sites\/oxfam-unwrapped-a-small-gift-big-difference\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[273],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}