Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, it's time to set our sights on the most wonderful time of year - the holiday season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa or another holiday, chances are you will be buying a gift or two. Why not opt for charitable gifts that provide help for those in need?
Here is Part 1 of our 2009 Gifts That Give Back series!
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- Lush Charity Pot Lotion ($20): Change the world, one pot at a time. This homemade and animal-friendly hand and body lotion made with organic almond oil smells like a fresh spring garden, plus, 100% of proceeds support environmental, humanitarian and animal rights charities.
- - Keep a Child Alive "Drug Dealer" Tank or Tee ($35): This shirt might earn you a few funny looks, but you can assure your friends that it's all for a good cause. Proceeds of these hilarious shirts will fund ARV drugs for HIV/AIDS patients via Keep a Child Alive.
- - Provide a goat for a third world family ($120): Gifts that give back means sometimes not receiving anything for yourself at all. By purchasing a goat for a third-world family, you'll be providing both nutrition and income for people in need. Goats thrive in extreme climates and on poor, dry land and can still supply a family with several quarts of milk a day - a ton of milk a year. Extra milk can be sold or used to make cheese, butter or yogurt. The goat manure can also fertilize gardens.
- - Build A Nest's 'better together' necklace ($62): This necklace features original artwork by Laurel Denise in a piece of translucent glass and by itself, makes a great gift. Paired with the fact that all proceeds go towards changing the lives of women in developing countries, it makes an AWESOME gift.
- - Pangea Organics Gift Sets (price varies): Each gift set of organically delicious skincare products comes in a box made from 100% post-consumer newsprint without glues or dyes and is embedded with the seeds of a Spruce Tree. Soak the box, plant it in your garden, and soon you'll have a baby Spruce tree! How festive.
- -St. Jude's Retro Green Scooter (
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