Alternative Giving Holiday Fair 2009


The Holiday Fair raised $5,035 for Church World Service to provide the following:

    17 beehives to provide honey
    20 groups of chicks to provide eggs and income for families
    2 shares in a draft animal to provide subsistence farms with power to increase food production
    29 groups of rabbits to help increase families’ incomes in struggling areas
    6 wheelbarrows to help farmers increase their production
    4 kits of seeds and tools to help refugees returning home replant their fields
    7 kits of basic grains to help farmers develop new crops
    24 oral rehydration therapy kits to help reduce deaths from dehydration
    31 soccer balls or multiples of soccer balls so people can build community through games
    1 share of a school building/renovation
    8 birthing kits to help midwives provide clean and safer deliveries
    10 literacy classes to promote reading and writing
    3 microcredit loans to enable women to jump-start businesses
    4 sets of 10 blankets for warmth and comfort to those stuck by disaster
    16 trees to rebuild forests in deforested areas
    12 shares in well building to provide access to clean water