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MV Gift Catalogue
Balkans and Middle East
Gift Thumbnail Education & child support Add to basket
The Roma community in Shutka, Macedonia is the largest in Europe with high levels of poverty and illiteracy. This gift will help provide education for illiterate women and pre-school support for their children. £20
Gift Thumbnail Christmas Gift Pack Add to basket
The children in the Roma camp outside Thessaloniki in Greece are living in very poor conditions with high levels of deprivation. This gift of a Christmas Gift Pack will help to show these children that they are cared for and bring some joy to them at Christmas. £15
Gift Thumbnail Food voucher Add to basket
The Nabaa district of Beirut is very poor. More than 70 people are being fed on a weekly basis. The support work for the people of Nabaa also includes the organisation of social activities and a Church plant. This gift of a food voucher will help to sustain this vital work. £10
Gift Thumbnail Resources for Ministry to Muslims Add to basket
Many Muslims are becoming Christians in Cairo. Funding is required to support targeted mission work and provide resource materials. This gift will help to provide suitable literature for this mission activity. £10
Uganda
Gift Thumbnail Tippy Tap Add to basket
Three Stones is a health education programme for local villagers. In Uganda, food is cooked in pots resting on three stones - take one away and the pot falls. We teach that Safe Water, Good Hygiene and a Balanced Diet are all needed like the three stones. Water often has to be collected and carried from a distance. This gift will buy the materials to make ‘Tippy Taps’ to help facilitate increased hand-washing for four families. £15
Gift Thumbnail Farming pack Add to basket
The trainers working on the Three Stones project in Uganda are also farmers. Their work involves training villagers in rural communities. They need tools such as hoes, gloves, panga (machete), wheelbarrows and rakes, together with seeds. This gift of an equipment pack will help to promote and enable the sustainable growth of crops and healthy eating. £55
Gift Thumbnail Bicycles for trainers Add to basket
The trainers working on the Three Stones Project in Uganda cover long distances to work in remote villages. This gift of a bicycle will greatly help a trainer to these remote areas and enable them to spend more time supporting the villagers. £80
Gift Thumbnail Mosquito nets Add to basket
Malaria remains a constant threat to the local population, causing both poor health and early deaths. The provision of mosquito nets will help to reduce incidence of this disease. Your gift will provide nets for 3 people. £10
Gift Thumbnail Water filter Add to basket
The provision of safe water is a perennial problem in much of Africa. Without clean water health problems are exacerbated and the work in villages in Northern Uganda can be severely hampered. This gift of a water filter can make a huge difference. £85
Gift Thumbnail Chicken project start-up Add to basket
The Bweyale Chicken Farm project will provide a sustainable living for orphaned children who are currently reliant on ongoing sponsorship for support. This gift of a start up pack will buy and house a chicken together with vaccines and veterinary services. £12
Gift Thumbnail Banana project start-up Add to basket
The Bweyale Banana Plantation is a project designed help provide a sustainable living for orphaned children and poor families. This gift of a start up pack will help to pay for the establishment of the plantation. £12
Zambia
Gift Thumbnail Gift box for ex-prisoners Add to basket
The Zambian Prison ministry is bringing many men to Christ. This gift will provide a prisoner with a gift box on their release, containing practical items such as soap, salt, and mealie meal (staple diet) that are needed by their families when they return home. £15
Gift Thumbnail School equipment Add to basket
The Hope in Christ Community School is a small Christian community school devoted to orphans near the Roma compound outside Lusaka, Zambia. This gift will help complete the school construction and purchase essential equipment such as tables and chairs, and other school supplies. £15
Gift Thumbnail Christmas gift box Add to basket
The Hope in Christ Community School is a small Christian community school devoted to orphans near the Roma compound outside Lusaka, Zambia In addition to equipping the school there is also a need to support the children individually. This gift will buy a gift box containing toys and practical items for a precious child. £15
Gift Thumbnail School fees Add to basket
Approximately 50% of Africa’s population is under 16 and many children are orphaned and live with extended families. Whilst basic primary education is free, parents still need to pay for items such as stationary and books. Due to high levels of poverty, orphans are often kept at home to do chores rather than being sent to school. This gift can help enable a poor family to send a child they are caring for to school for a whole year. £25
Gift Thumbnail School uniform & shoes Add to basket
Orphaned children in Zambia are often prevented from attending school because their carers cannot afford to provide them with shoes and school uniform. Some children are only able to attend part-time as shoes and uniforms are shared between more than one child. This gift will provide shoes and a uniform for one child. £25
Ireland
Gift Thumbnail Gift hamper Add to basket
There is a concentration of underprivileged families in the Sligo area of Ireland. They comprise asylum seekers, homeless people and Irish families who live in poverty. This gift of a hamper containing practical and luxury items will give these families items they would not otherwise enjoy at Christmas and throughout the year. £60
Gift Thumbnail Bibles for asylum seekers Add to basket
There over 400 asylum seekers in Sligo alone. The Missionary Ventures field staff are working closely with many of them. This gift will help us to provide as many of these precious people as possible with a Bible in their own language. £10
India
Gift Thumbnail Bicycles for pastors Add to basket
Pastor G. Gyana Raju looks after one church in Eluru and a number of cell group churches in the surrounding rural areas. Pastor Simon Peter is working with a team of young people to reach the tribal peoples in the 70 villages around Jainoor Mandal. This gift of a bicycle will greatly assist one of the pastors to access these remote areas. £60
Russia
Gift Thumbnail Winter support for pastors Add to basket
Russian pastors exist on meagre resources but undertake vital work throughout the year including the severe conditions of the Russian winter. This gift will provide vital winter support (clothing, food, fuel. etc) during the most difficult time of the year when it can be very cold and dark. £30
South Africa
Gift Thumbnail Christmas gift box Add to basket
The Embo area has high rates of HIV/Aids and many children there have no parents and are cared for either by the elderly or the very young. Mission work is focused around the Embo Educare Centre. New classroom and kitchen facilities have recently been completed. This Christmas gift box will provide toys and practical items for children who have very little. £10
How it works

Ordering

Follow these steps to order from our gift catalogue...
  1. Browse the catalogue - there are lots of gifts to choose from and we've divided them into the different regions we work in.
    Click the "Add to basket" button next to each item to add it to your shopping cart.
    You can check what's in your shopping cart using the "View basket" link at the top of this page.
  2. Place your order - this is all done via PayPal but you do not need a PayPal account and a number of payment methods are accepted.
  3. Receive your gift certificate - we'll send you a nice printed gift certificate by post that you can give to the person you've bought the gift for.
    Each certificate has space for you to write on a personal message.
    If you haven't received your gift certificate within 5 working days of placing your order, please e-mail us at gifts@mvgb.org.uk with your order details.

How your money is spent

We have worked closely with our field staff in some of the poorest countries around the world to come up with carefully-chosen gifts that people need the most. On behalf of the person who receives the card, your donation will be sent, along with others, to the relevant project for the purpose outlined in the description above. A small transaction fee is deducted by PayPal, and a further percentage (up to 10% of the donation after deduction of the transaction fee) is used to cover the cost of running Missionary Ventures, including administration, training and other local running costs.

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