Looking For An Original Birthday Gift Idea? So Why Note Donate To Charity! More and more people are getting married after having lived together for some time. Yet others are on their second and third marriage. Others are marrying later in life and already have their own home. They are thus consolidating two homes. So buying a wedding or birthday gift is now becoming a nightmare for their friends and relatives. After all who needs a new toaster when you already have two? So looking for a good birthday gift is a problem. So why not donate to charity in their name as a birthday gift idea? There is a great website that lets you donate to charity as a
birthday gift idea: Gifts That Matter - Birthday Gift Ideas. Whether it's a wedding gift, or a birthday gift idea, donating to charity is a great idea.
Not such a silly idea, but a plain donation that is not really that original. So how about donating a cow, goat, a piglet or a chicken? You could be really original in your birthday gift and donate a bicycle or a rickshaw?
There are charities that allow you to donate a bicycle or rickshaw to an impoverished country and these small gifts, which cost under $100, can make the world of difference.
For example, the gift of $75 will purchase 4 bicycles in Kenya as well as milk canisters. This sounds really strange to a westerner but in Kenya milk production is a valuable income–generating activity. So whilst some people may donate a cow, others can donate the bicycles to turn these cows into a business. This donation of 4 bicycles will set several families up in a milk delivering business. This gives several families in an area access to fresh healthy milk, the carriers an income and the cow owners access to a method of selling their excess milk. So a small charity donation on an original gift idea provides all of these life changing, and sometimes life saving advantages.
So what about the rickshaw then? Well a gift of just $85 will provide a family in Bangladesh with a means of income that could make them self supporting in the long term. For a man in this extremely poor area of the world, pulling a rickshaw can be an extremely important source of income. Unfortunately few poor families can afford to buy a rickshaw. There is the opportunity of renting rickshaws but the renter often pays almost all their income in rental fees. Your very small investment in buying such an unusual charity gift will provide a Bangladesh family with a feeling of pride and self accomplishment as well as a future income for many years to come.
Donating to charity isn’t just for birthday gifts either. For those getting married in the future who do not know what gifts to place on the wedding registry, many charities now can start up a fundraising registry of unique gift ideas. These charity gifts will transform the lives of families struggling with extreme poverty in third world countries. This unique gift idea has got to be better than yet another set of steak knives?