Give Hope with World Vision (Giveaway!)

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All month long, I have shared special giving ideas and giveaways as part of the 30-Day Giving Challenge. This is our 12th and final sponsor!

Today, as we approach the end of the 30 Day Giving Challenge, we are honored to partner with World Vision to offer a unique prize package that supports women and families around the world, giving them a hand up out of poverty.

What could be more fitting for the end of this journey?

World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. As an organization, World Vision is dedicated to working with the world’s most vulnerable people and serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

I love how they summarize their vision:

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness; Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.

Many of the donations to World Vision’s Maximum Gift Fund, which provides for the unique needs of children and families worldwide, also include a special gift to keep or give to someone else, such as the tumbler, bracelet or book that are included in the prize package below!

As part of the 30 Day Giving Challenge, I will be donating prize package I received to our church home, and I will be letting my girls choose an entrepreneur to support with the micro loan gift card.

One Keeping the Kingdom First reader will also win a World Vision prize package to keep or donate, including:

  • A Ugandan Bracelet, handcrafted in Uganda by women actively engaged in caring for children in their communities who have lost parents to AIDS.
  • $25 World Vision Micro Gift Card to help a hardworking entrepreneur by funding their small business loan — to buy a sewing machine, a bicycle, training, or whatever will put their families on the pathway to success.
  • A Thai Coin Purse, handmade in Thailand by women in World Vision job training projects.

To Enter:

  • Leave a comment below (required entry): Share about a meaningful gift you have received OR given that helped others. (Or for ideas, check out World Vision’s Gift Catalog)

If you are reading via email or in a reader, please click through to the post to enter.

For up to (2) bonus entries:

  • Subscribe via RSS or email, and/or follow KingdomFirstMom on Facebook. If you’re already a subscriber (thank you!) simply leave a comment.
  • Follow World Vision on Facebook and/or Twitter.

This giveaway will end on Wednesday (12/1) at 9 p.m. EST. The winner will be drawn randomly, and notified via email.

Disclosure: World Vision provided me with the prize pack above to donate to the charity of my choosing, along with one to give away. As always, the opinions in this post are my own.

The other bloggers leading the 30-Day Giving Challenge are also giving away this unique prize pack.  Stop by each of their sites for more chances to win!


Comments

  4. Sharon says

    Last year, my cousin and Aunt filled shoe boxes for Operation Christmas child in our name, vs giving a material gift which we didn’t need.

  9. Linda from Georgia says

    I left my sister’s house after a wonderful Thanksgiving get together with her left over Halloween candy and a baggie of tea bags. They will be used for Love Gift bags. We give out hundreds during the year and the little donations add up to make the project successful.

  10. Nancy says

    I am donating a glider that I just purchased this summer to the local Infant Crisis Center for volunteers to rock newborns. We are moving and rather than sell it, we donated to this worthy cause.

  16. Jodi says

    My kids and I love to fill shoeboxes at Christmas time. We also enjoy giving to our church’s food pantry and to the boyscouts when they do their annual can food drive.

  20. says

    For the first time this year I sent a shoebox filled with items for a child through Operation Christmas child. I’m very happy to have been able to do this and can’t wait to be able to do it again.
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  23. Heather V says

    We do the Operation Christmas Child Shoe boxes. Last year we packed 28 and then took them to the drop off center and spent the day there learning about how the package get to where they are going.

  28. Glenda Embree says

    One of the dearest gifts I have ever received is a box with three very old and worn Anne of Green Gables books in it. A dear older lady, who was much like a grandmother to me, introduced me to the books as a child. When she passed away she left me the books and they are a great treasure to me; not to have the books, but to have the lovely memories of her.
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  31. kim says

    we worked to fill shoeboxes and have already started collecting for next year. now that shoeboxes are sent we are working with our church to help a family with christmas for their 5 children

  32. Beth says

    My grandmother is the hardest person on my list to buy for. Last Christmas we decided that we would sponsor a Salvation Army child for Christmas as her gift. She loved it! This year we are going shopping for her through World Vision 😀

  35. Rachel H. says

    I always get too many things for my kids each Christmas. This year I decided to donate all but 3 gifts for each child. Luckily, a young man at our church was collecting toys for a Christmas giveaway! God’s plan always unfolds in such an awesome way!!

  37. says

    We love collecting items for Operation Christmas Child throughout the year. And then we decided when our boys were young that it is Christ’s birthday, so we focus on “the least of these” for Christmas. We don’t have any gifts under our tree for our family. This year our church is doing gifts for foster kids.
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  39. Joy Cooke says

    Perfect place to share! My hubby lost his job of 20 yrs. just over a year ago. He has had NO CALLS, nothing! Ugh. Our son has had issues with his epilepsy during this time. My hubby now has Bells Palsy (left side of face is paralized – hopefully only temporarily – and by the way I had it 13 yrs. ago! Ugh.) He’s struggling with it – but doing well. Anyway the point of my story. Someone in our Church family has been leaving us an envelope at church – well disguised – filled with money. Over the last 3 weeks it has been $100 per week. Isn’t God and his Children amazing!!! Our son got his first deer and we were worried about the processing fee, usually over $60 but this donation will certainly cover that. Plus we’ll have meat in the freezer. Praising our Wonderful Savior!!! Also praying for my hubby as he is on his first and ONLY job interview in over a year right at this moment! Prayers greatly appreciated! God has great plans for all of His Children!

  40. says

    Love World Vision!!! We have been sponsoring children through them for a few years now. We have also given ducks and chickens in honor of adult family members at Christmas, rather than trying to buy them one more item that isn’t really needed.
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  42. Stacia Jahnke says

    We’ve had 2 specific instances where God has blessed us through others… we had the exact amount we needed for the deposit on a house given to us anomiously and then several years ago, when our car died, a family in our church sold us their mini van for $1. That van was exactly what we needed and has lasted us for 4 yrs and still going!!! Praise God! We do alot with World Vision through our church and youth group. Awesome group!!!

  47. gail mercer says

    I follow you thru email and also I get so much joy out of putting together the shoe boxes for OCC that it is almost crazy how much it excites me way over getting a material gift for myself not matter the size

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  49. Stephanie Acosta says

    My daughter and I always do the Angel Tree every Christmas. She gets just as excited about picking out our Angel’s gifts as she is about what’s under our tree!

  52. Alison says

    The last couple of years we’ve sent a monetary gift to our sponsored child through World Vision which has enabled the family to purchase goats, shoes, blankets, school uniform, and soccer balls. They send us a pic each year with the stuff they buy. Its amazing how far a little US$ can go in Kenya to provide for a lot of needs.

    I like World Vision on facebook!

  55. Betsy says

    Our MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group always adopts a family with young children at Christmas. Last year we helped pay their utilties for two months. What a joy to see the stress drain from them when they know there is help available. 🙂

  57. Joyce Mlinek says

    When my husband and I were in Bible college years ago with 3 children and funds were very tight, we received a financial gift in the mail from an older couple from our home church which meant a lot to us to know that someone was praying for us and thinking of our welfare. I will always remember that and hope to pass it on to others as the Lord provides.

  63. Danielle Pontow says

    We have a child through World Vision and are blessed by it.. My most meaning gift I ever got was from my husband.. 28 years of faithfullness and 3 boys.. Its the gift I love the most.

  69. Rae says

    email subscriber.outside of the obvious gift of Jesus Christ and my salvation, I have been gifted with 7 chidren and 10 grandchildren.what more could anyone want?

  70. Brooke says

    We do OCC for each of our kids…. they pick out the stuff for their boxes and pray for the kids that are receiving them. It is the BEST gift in the world to hear my kids praying for those that are going to receive the boxes 🙂

  72. Brooke says

    I “liked” World Vision on FB….. we have 2 sponsored kids through WV and it’s a FAB organization! Thanks for the extra entries 😉

  73. says

    One of the most meaningful gifts that I received was from a co-worker. I didn’t know her well and never expected to be exchanging gifts with her. We both have an obsession with paper/pens/office supply products and she put together a big scrap-booking tote with all sorts of office supplys and cool pens and markers in it. More thought went into that gift than most that my family get me.

  78. says

    I know it’s not “that” big of a deal, but I always try to give kids educational/biblical gifts, so at least hopefully they’re learning something from it!

  84. Jan says

    The best gift I have given was taking a tour of low income women through the local women’s shelter. One sent a note a year later to say that having seen the shelter gave her the courage to leave an abusive husband. “That note was the best gift I have received.

  85. Christie says

    I was given a photo album from my MIL that was full of pictures of my hubby growing up. I treasure it, because it helps me see another side of him that I never knew!

  87. Karla says

    I have received cards showing that my friends have donated to World Vision and I really appreciate that.