Select a truly meaningful gift from our Gift of Hope catalog that will change lives forever. You may also wish to include your family and friends in this gift by giving it in their honor! Select from any of the gifts below and provide families with the life-changing resources they so desperately need.
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THE CURE
With both Leprosy and Buruli ulcer, early diagnosis is absolutely critical.
There is no greater gift to a victim of leprosy or Buruli ulcer than telling them, "You've been cured!"
A life-changing gift of $300 today will completely cure one person from leprosy.
It costs an average of just $65 to diagnose and provide antibiotics to treat a child if Buruli ulcer is detected early enough. But the cost of delayed treatment rises to $647 for aggressive antibiotics, extensive surgery, skin grafts, and necessary rehability -- a cost too high for poverty-stricken families who typically earn just $1 or less per day.
Sharing a Gift of Chicks Helps Families Around the World
By giving the gift of a flock of chicks, you are helping to provide both nourishment and livelihood for families affected by leprosy and are some of the poorest of the poor. Not only do chickens provide protein-rich eggs that will improve health, families can sell extra eggs for income. Another benefit to raising chickens? They don't take up much space and can survive on miscellaneous food scraps.
Cows make Great Gifts.
Cows are wonderful gifts for families. A cow can provide a family with nutrition and sustainable livelihood.
By giving a leprosy affected family a cow, you offer them a way to rise above the cycle of poverty and despair of the disease. The benefits a cow offers are numerous. Children receive the precious nutrients found in milk. And because one cow can produce up to four gallons of milk per day, families have enough extra to sell. In addition, cow manure works as a great fertilizer, helping to improve crops and can be used as a valuable source of fuel for heating and cooking.
Goats are hearty animals and thrive in a variety of climates.
Because they are relatively easy to care for and can produce two to three kids each year, goats are good investments for families. Their value is three-fold: they provide nutrient-rich milk to nourish growing kids; extra milk may be sold, adding precious income to struggling families; their offspring may be used to start small dairies and sold for extra income as well.
For people who have little or no means of livelihood, goats provide a real way to break free from the cycle of poverty that accompanies leprosy.
Without proper and timely treatment, leprosy can cause permanent, life-altering disabilities.
Extensive nerve and tissue damage may require amputation of the affected limb. This can rob an already suffering person of their ability to work and make a living. Your gift will provide a proper prosthesis to help restore mobility and offer the courage and hope someone needs to move forward in life.
Leprosy can cause nerve damage throughout the body - even the face.
When facial nerves are affecte, eyelids may no longer be able to function properly, preventing blinking. Complications can lead to cataracts and vision loss. With a gift of %52, you'll help restore the vision of a person suffering from cataracts. Such a small amount to give back the priceless gift of sight!
If leprosy is left untreated, the fingers and toes start to "claw" leading to paralysis in the hands and feet.
Not only do these damaging effects make daily tasks extremely challenging for those who suffer, but this recognizable sign of the disease creates a terrible social stigma.
A generous gift of $137 will provide rehabilitative surgery to help restore movements and use of hands and feet for someone like Vijaya.
Lack of feeling in hands and feet results in injuries such as cuts, scrapes and burns.
Left untreated, small wounds can quickly progress into ulcers, further infection and complications.
$40 will provide 5 packages of bandages, gauzes and medication.
$100 will offer bandage to those who require surgery due to the flesh-eating damage of Buruli ulcer.
$2 will provide on Self-Care Kit, which includes antibacterial ointment, gauze and other first-aid items.
The Cebu Skin Clinic in the Philippines is one of the busiest leprosy treatment centers in the world.
The Clinic helps thousands of people each year and diagnoses hundreds more. Sponsoring the clinic you can make an amazing difference for suffering children.
A $300 gift - one day of clinic sponsorship - will completely cure a child of leprosy.
$1,500 sponsors the clinic for a whole week!
$6,000 sponsors the clinic for an entire month!!
Poverty and abandonment can starve the soul of a person already suffering from a disease like leprosy.
For just $5, you can provide a Bible in the person's own language - God's Word - providing hope through Jesus' promise to never leave or abandon those who follow him.
Meals for Children
School-age children with leprosy often live in extreme poverty - with hunger and malnutrition.
Your gift can provide the filling meals that hungry, hurting children desperately need.
Feed a child for an entire year for only $216. Just $18 feeds a child for one month.
Just $18 feeds a child for one month.
Stitches of Hope
The gift of a sewing machine represents a lasting, meaningful way for you to help women and families around the world.
People affected by leprosy live in conditions of extreme poverty with few means of livelihood. Often, they must resort to begging in order to survive.
By providing $100 for a sewing machine to a woman affected by leprosy in India, for example, you are offering her the opportunity to start a new life. With training and support from ALM, she can find success in tailoring.
Countless women and families have benefited from receiving one sewing machine. Once their businesses begin to thrive, they are able to purchase additional equipment. Not only does this help them financially, it also improves their status within their communities, successfully combating age-old stigma.
The gift of an education is truly beyond price.
By providing scholarships to kids and teens affected by leprosy, you can break the vicious cycle of poverty that accompanies the disease.
Children with leprosy are often forced to drop out of school. They are either too poor to pay the fees, or are shunned by their communities. In Ethiopia, children from leprosy villages participating in the tutoring programs
Through the gift of a scholarship, you are providing books, fees, uniforms, and specialized training in areas such as nursing, mechanics, and more.
Access to clean water is essential!
Yet clean water is unavailable to over a billion people worldwide. Those suffering from leprosy are in the worst position - lacking even the most basic resource in their already weakened condition.
$140 will provide the necessary tools and equipment needed to install and maintain a new hand water pump.
$35 will fix an existing pump needing repairs.
$25 will help toward providing clean water to a family affected by leprosy.
No place of their own to call home.
Without a proper house, they are without safety, security, and comfort. They become ignored and even cast out by their communiities.
$1000 gives the gift of a new home made from indigenous materials to a leprosy-affected family.
$500 provides a sturdy refurbished home.
Imagine if you could transform an entire village.
VillageAlive! is an on-site community development initiative managed by and for people affected by leprosy and their families. Already in Angola, India, Myanmar, and Nepal, this grass roots project is at work transforming social conditions by providing education, health assistance, and economic development projects.
$15,000 fully funds VillageAlive! for one year. Your gift can not only deliver the cure for leprosy, but also transform, heal, and strengthen the communities where leprosy-affected people live.
This is a true gift of hope with far-reaching implications for so many people!