December 15, 2009 10:20 AM- In this holiday season, when everyone is looking for Christmas gifts, Bobbie Thomas, TODAY style editor and author of The Buzz column for In Touch Weekly, tells what charitable gifts can be offered to support various causes. These gifts include philanthropic trinkets and toys, to beauty with charitable benefits, and accessories that ignite a call-to-action. There are jewelery made from natural seed beads (some of them collected from the rainforest) by female artisans in Ecuador, who receive loans, school fees, business training, fair wages and cash bonuses from the Andean collection’s sales.
The handblown glass beaded bracelets are crocheted by women in Kigali, Rwanda who were raped, and as a result, infected with HIV/AIDS during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Not only these, there are lipsticks, frames, computer bags, kid's gifts etc. purchasing of which will help someone on this earth. To know about these presents that lend a helping hand, read Shop for change! Top gifts that give back