Wool blankets, insecticide-treated nets, rehydration salts, high-nutrition
foods, vaccines and water pumps: these are some of the things Unicef hopes
people will purchase for a child in need during the holiday season.
Gifts for Life, Unicef’s 2008 winter campaign, focuses on items that are
truly indispensable, even lifesaving, to children in impoverished or warn-torn
regions of the world. With single gifts and gift combinations ranging from 15
to 1,000 euro, Unicef is appealing to a wide range of potential donors. Unicef
will ship the packages to the 150 countries where it is working to aid children
and their families, and gift-givers can track their delivery.
Because
children the world over love to play and learn, Unicef is also offering soccer
balls, crayons, notebooks and jump ropes among the ‘gifts for life.’ See the
full list at www.regaliperlavita.it. (Note that the campaign name varies by
country: see for example www.inspiredgifts.unicefusa.org, or use the country
option at www.supportunicef.org)
