Find charity shops selling gifts supporting poor communities in developing nations, and online stores of green organisations where your gift supports the work of the organisation.

This section also features charity and development agencies where you can give gifts on behalf of yourself, family or friends to villagers and communities in developing countries. You make a donation to the charity or agency and they use it to buy a specified item for one of their development projects. Examples of items include goats, chickens, pigs, donkeys, ducks or stoves, buckets, school equipment, seeds for planting.

You can have a card sent to a friend or relative telling them that a gift has been sent on their behalf.

These schemes are good ways to help disadvantaged communities in developing nations, with the environmental benefit of reducing the excessive materialism and waste often associated with Christmas giving.

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