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ADRA’sGrant aWish

Gift Catalogue

2015

ADRA’sGrant aWish

Gift Catalogue

2015

Grant a Wishand helppeoplethrive!Buying a gift for Christmas, a wedding or a birthday?

ADRA’s Grant a Wish Gift Catalogue enables you to give aunique gift to someone you care about, while also bringingjoy, hope and healing to a person or community facingpoverty or hardship. The gift catalogue can be used allyear round, for any event. You can share it with family,friends or colleagues and help them grant a wish forsomeone in need.

Granting a Wish is easy!Choose your tax-deductible gifts from ADRA’s Grant a Wish Gift Catalogue and order your gifts:

• using the attached form and envelope

• online at www.adra.org.au

• by calling 1800 24 ADRA (1800 242 372)

ADRA will send you a card or a tag to present to that specialsomeone, showing the difference their gift will make.

How your wishes are grantedThe wishes in this gift catalogue have been chosen byconsulting communities in need. Your purchase of a giftprovides support for the project through which that gift isgranted, empowering people to thrive. Should we receivemore support than is needed for the project, we will granta similar wish through another project or within the countryor project area chosen.

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$20 – Chickens

Your gift can buy cute little chickensfor someone in the Pacific or Africa.As the chickens grow they provide

eggs for food and income, andfertiliser for people’s

gardens.

$60 – Food Processors

Vanuatu is suffering a “hidden hunger.”Changing eating patterns and availabilityof low-cost, imported products starvespeople of nutritious foods. Your gift can

help locals produce their own food andrely less on processed foods.

$9 – Seed Loan

Your gift can go round-and-round.How? By providing a seed loan to afarmer to grow their crops, generatean income and return a portion oftheir seeds for others to use through

a revolving seed fund.

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Gifts of Food

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$300 – Drip Irrigation

Drip, drip, drip. This is the sound of aflourishing garden. Your gift canprovide Malawian households withchronically ill family members with away to water their garden so that it canproduce much-needed vegetables for

nutrition and income.

$1,267 – Greenhouse

Greenhouses allow people to producefood crops out of season and to protectthe crops while still in their infancy. Your

gift can provide a Zambian communitywith the materials to build a greenhouse

so that they can nurture their crops forsale as well as an ongoing food source.

$66 – Wheelbarrow

Your gift can carry many blessings.By gifting a wheelbarrow to aZambian farmer you can help themuse their energy more efficientlyand multiply their yields.

$150 – Solar Driers

Using the sun to dry food dates back to1700BC. Today communities still use

this low-energy, cost-effectivetechnique to keep food for longer. Yourgift can enable 20 households in Africato dry their produce for the future or to

sell at the market.

$250 – Garden Tools

Your very practical gift can provide toolssuch as hoes, shovels and wheelbarrowsfor a community in Zambia helping themprepare their soil for a plentiful yield.Why not upgrade your gift? $1000 canprovide 4 communities with the tools

they need to care for their crops.

$40 – Tinsmith Training for the Disabled

People with disabilities desire to belong,to make a difference, and to live afulfilling life. Your gift can make this cometrue. By providing disabled people inAfrica with income generation skills youcan help them earn a living and thrive.

$43 – Savings and LoanTraining

Imagine spending months in your fieldsonly to have all your crops destroyedby rats. Your gift can help acommunity in Myanmar to recoverfrom such a disaster by helping them

start a micro-saving group and accesslow-interest loans.

$200 – DriverTraining

Do you drive? For newmigrants to Australia the abilityto drive is vital as it helps themgain independence and securea job. Your gift today, can help enable new Australians toadapt to their new country by gaining employment.

$400 – Cow

Moooo… Who would havethought that this sound couldbe music to anyone’s ears?But it is! Your gift can enable

people in Cambodia to start a cow-breeding business to earna living and support their families.

$5,300 – Oil Presser

This is one splendid gift! It can press300kg of sunflower seeds into 100litres of oil in just one hour—helpingAfrican communities to produce amarketable product that they cansell to earn a living.

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Gifts for IncomeGeneration

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$50 – Cake Decorating Classes

This gift not only enables you to provideIndigenous youth with employable skills—but also helps them develop a healthyattitude that embraces life and culture sothat they can make a difference for theircommunity. Sweet!

$2,600 – Community Water System

Women and girls in developingcountries walk about 6km and spend 2hours each day fetching water. Your giftcan help save a woman in Laos up to15 hours per week by bringing water to

their community.

$7,500 – Borehole

Is this gift a bore? Not really. Your giftof a borehole can bring clean drinking

water to more than 400 people inAfrica. Not boring at all!

$100 – Cycling SafetyEquipment

Kicking the cycle of poverty startswith a bicycle. Your gift of cycling

safety equipment can help ADRA’sCrankt project to equip young

people with the confidence andlife-skills they need to thrive and

overcome adversities in life.

$321 – Garden Start Up

Starting a garden can be costly. Butwith your help, a community inAustralia will be provided with

plants, seeds, potting mix, weedmats, bird netting and chicken wire

to help establish a communitygarden and help those in need.

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CommunityBuilding Gifts

$3 – Education Materials

Drop everything and read—three in fourwomen in PNG can’t do the same. Your

gift today can change this by helpingwomen and girls in PNG to learn how toread and write. Why not upgrade your

gift? Just $93 can provide teachingresources for trainers so that they can

teach more students.

$10 – Water Filter

75% of the human brain is made upof water. It’s essential for cognitivedevelopment. Your gift can provideclean drinking water to families inCambodia, enabling children

to grow and thrive.

$13 – Prescription Glasses

People with Albinism experience impaired vison due to

underdevelopment of their retina. Yourgift of prescription glasses can help

them see better and participate in theirsociety more productively.

$80 – Training for Teens on Marriage andReproductive Health

Many people shy away from thistopic. It’s uncomfortable. But lackof knowledge can lead to the

spread of diseases, unwantedpregnancies or child marriage. Your

gift can train Vietnamese girls about howto avoid these unwanted effects.

$112 – Toilet

There’s nothing worse than beingstuck when ‘nature calls’. But for

families in Asia, this is an everydayreality. Your gift can change this by

providing cement, steel wire,ceramic pan, PVC piping and more,

to build a sanitary latrine.

$250 – Well

This eco-friendlywater solution ispopular indevelopingcountries as it canbe implementedat low cost. Yourgift can provide apoor family in Asia with a ring well, helping them accessclean water for family and agricultural needs.

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Inclusion andWellbeing Gifts

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$50 – Hygiene Pack

After a disaster, one of the biggest fearsis the spread of diseases. Your gift of a

hygiene packs can provide a familywith soap, toothpaste, washing powder,

towels and buckets—helping them tokeep clean and healthy.

$87 – Accommodation

In Australia one in three women over 15experiences physical violence and onein five are sexually abused. Your gift canprovide women escaping abuse with theaccommodation and care they need to

deal with their ordeal.

$115 – Shelter Pack

Cyclones, typhoons, tsunamis regularlyrip through the Pacific destroying

homes. Your gift can provide a familythat has just lost a roof from over their

head with tarpaulins, ropes, nails andtools to help them rebuild.

$5 – School Lunch

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Untilnow! Your gift can provide a free lunchfor a month to a Syrian refugee childattending remedial education classes—helping them to stay alert and learn.

$23 – ChristmasHampers

Christmas is a stressful time for manyAustralians. Mounting bills, groceries

and other costs add to the pressure ofChristmas. Your gift can lighten the load

on those doing it tough, helping themcelebrate Christmas.

$31 – Mangrove Plant

Can you imagine your house being washedaway? What a nightmare! But for peoplein Indonesia this is real. Storms, floodsand rising sea levels continue to claimtheir properties and livelihoods. Your giftcan help stop coastal erosion and help

reclaim their lives and income sources.

Emergency, Crisisand Relief Gifts

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Be an ADRA Everyday Hero andkeep granting wishes

Whoever said you need to stop granting wishes?

By becoming an ADRA Everyday Hero you can grantwishes all year long without spending another dollar. Byasking your family and friends to match your gift you canmultiply your impact. So how does it work?

1 Purchase a tax-deductible gift from ADRA’s Grant a Wish Gift Catalogue.

2 Go to www.adra.org.au/grantawishchallenge andestablish your very own Everyday Hero fundraisingpage.

3 Then send a link of your Everyday Hero page to yourfriends asking them to match your gift, assisting youto your goal of tripling, quadrupling or evenmultiplying your impact tenfold.

It’s easy! It takes just 5 minutes to maximise

your impact. Why not multiply your gift today?

TODAY, I wantto Grant a WishPlease fill out the order form below or order online atwww.adra.org.au or by calling 1800 24 ADRA (2372).

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■ Please send me a gift card for each item

■ Please send me a gift tag for each item

■ Please send me a Christmas Tree Pack

Gifts of $2 or more are tax-deductible. Receipts and gift card/swill be sent to the purchaser. ADRA cannot distribute cards onyour behalf.

*Please allow up to 12 working days to receive your gift card. Postal delivery may bedelayed during Christmas, June/July or to remote areas. The gifts included in thiscatalogue are current as of November 2014. If you would like to see ADRA’s latest gift items please visit ADRA Australia’s website atwww.adra.org.au or call 1800 24 ADRA. Should funds raised for a particular gift itemexceed the amount required to meet the needs of the project, ADRA Australia will directexcess funds to a similar project or to other projects in that country. ADRA Australiacollects personal and sensitive information to help provide relevant service andcommunication to ADRA supporters. If you do not wish to have your personal informationcollected or receive communication from ADRA, please notify us by phone (1800 242372), mail, email (adra.info@adra.org.au) or tick the appropriate box. For a full PrivacyPolicy see www.adra.org.au/privacy

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