For families struggling with food security, your gift of a chicken can help in many different ways. Chickens are great for controlling pests, especially in the garden. Chickens, in turn, provide fertilizer, fresh eggs, and meat that’s rich in protein, vitamins and nutrients for a growing family. You can give one chicken–or give multiples to help fill a whole coop!

Traditional foods like rice and corn provide calories, but a more varied diet is needed for long-term good health. Your gift of vegetable seed varieties provides families with spinach, beans, carrots, tomatoes, and other fresh produce that has the vitamins and minerals required for a long, healthy life.

Fruit trees produce food during difficult times when other crops may fail. You can give a farmer a tree sapling to plant that will produce guava, papaya, mango, or citrus fruit. These trees also provide income, medicine, shade, soil restoration, natural compost, reforestation, and protection from the environment. Give one tree or multiples for a whole grove!

When children don’t get the food they need to be healthy, your gift of a nutrition kit can supplement their diet to ensure that they get the vitamins and nutrients they need to help them grow big and strong. This kit includes vitamins, medicine to stop parasites, and healthy supplements.

When you gift ten bars of soap, you give a child the opportunity to wash up all throughout the school year and into the summer. Buy soap today and provide a child a year of cleanliness, along with instruction in the health benefits of hand washing and body hygiene.