Gifts of Change

Featured Item: Respond to Emergencies

PWS&D responds to emergencies around the world to help provide immediate assistance for those most affected. Typically, PWS&D partners help provide food, clean water, health care and emotional support, as well as other essential emergency supplies such as clothing, cooking pots, blankets, shelter materials and mosquito nets. Longer-term rehabilitation activities often include livelihood restoration and cash-for-work initiatives.

* Prices listed are taken from specific responses overseas; prices vary depending on the location and specific details of each situation.

$45 provides a hygiene kit for a family, including soap, towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes and feminine hygiene products
$67 provides vegetable seeds and fruit trees for a family for one growing season
$100 helps provide a displaced family with an emergency food package lasting one month
$3,000 builds a transitional home for one family

Establish Food Security

$2 provides a farmer with a fruit tree sapling
$10 trains a farmer in soil and water conservation
$30 provides a family with seeds and training on how to grow more food
$85 provides a farmer with a pig
$120 provides a goat to a vulnerable family
$200 provides a farmer with an "agricultural package" of fruit tree saplings, vegetables and tools
$1,200 builds a water storage pond for irrigation
$3,000 rebuilds 100 metres of irrigation canals for farmers

Education and Small Business Development

$80 provides a group of women with literacy and vocational training for one month
$120 sends a vulnerable child to school for one year
$215 enables 40 women to participate in a business training program
$350 provides one sewing machine to someone living with a disability
$500 helps a women's group start a small business fund

Building Healthy Communities

$15 provides a mosquito net
$30 allows a community health volunteer to provide health care in a remote village
$300 provides a wheelchair for someone with a physical disability
$300 provides a student with training to become a nutrition promoter in her community
$4,000 constructs a maternal delivery room and provides pediatric equipment in Afghanistan

Sunday School Challenge: Supporting Farmers in Pakistan

$130 provides one farming family with seeds, tools and fertilizer

Clean Water and Sanitation

$35 installs a latrine to improve sanitation
$3,700 constructs a rainwater tank for school children
$4,500 rehabilitates a shallow well or borehole
$7,000 builds a village well

Work for a World Without AIDS

$5 trains one home-based care volunteer
$50 provides vitamin supplements to vulnerable children along with HIV and AIDS testing
$90 offers free AIDS testing to one village

Give to the Greatest Need

A gift in any amount ensures that funds are used where the need is most urgent.

Support for Refugees

$20 helps to provide medication and nutritional supplements for a malnourished refugee child for six months
$25 helps to offer three sessions for emotional support and healing for a refugee following conflict and violence

Empower People with Disabilities

$10 provides one participant with a warm blanket during the cold season
$300 supplies a wheelchair for someone with a physical disability
$300 provides one sewing machine to someone living with a disability

Sunday School Challenge 2 - Protect Vulnerable Girls

Sunday School Challenge: Girls in Nicaragua

$1,000 sends a girl to the Casa de las Ninas rehabilitation shelter for one month to heal from trauma

Sunday School Challenge 1 - Livestock in Malawi

Sunday School Challenge: Livestock in Malawi

$900 provides families in one community with pigs, goats, rabbits, chicks and guinea fowl.