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
collections 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
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for change! Top gifts that give back