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Local challenges require local solutions
-but the whole world can play a part in making
these local solutions realities
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Order your Working Gifts by 19 December for processing before Christmas!
 You can make a Working Gift that directly supports an initiative of people who have demonstrated the courage, creativity, and commitment to overcome the challenges they face. Working Gifts respond to concrete needs identified by local communities, and reflect The Institute of Cultural Affairs’ approach of comprehensive, participatory, sustainable human development.
Want to give friends, family members, and colleagues gifts that represent your
values and make a real difference?
Do you want to foster a team spirit and build community in you business, school, or faith community?
 Working Gifts give you the opportunity to make a gift that represents your values. With a wide selection of gifts to choose from, you can decide on a gift or a community that has a special meaning for your recipient.
For recipients, Working Gifts can be powerful learning tools and inspiring examples of the potential of ordinary people to transform their future for the better. Perfect for everyone on your list, Working Gifts are alternative gifts that teach, inspire, and keep on giving – on both ends.
 For each gift you make, a photo card (electronic or hard copy) will be sent to the person you designate as the recipient, so that s/he knows that this empowering gift has been made in his/her name. This way, your recipient will be able to see their gift at work in the field.
Special arrangements are also available for businesses, schools, faith communities, and other groups interested in sponsoring a large project.
Gift Selection
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Sewing machine for a female entrepreneur
Country: Bangladesh
Help a woman in Bangladesh become self-reliant! ICA Bangladesh trains women to participate in the labour force and develop their skills.
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Bicycle for a girl to get to school
Country: Benin
Give a girl wheels! Girls in the north of Benin often leave school early because their parents are unable to support them. Encourage a girl with an environmentally-friendly means to get to school. This Working Gift will act as a reward for a girl who is succeeding in school, and allow her to continue her studies. You can invest in a future leader by giving her a bike today.
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First Aid Box for a rural community
Country: Togo
Save a life in a rural community. In remote villages, where there is no dispensary, ICA Togo provides a First Aid Box containing the necessary medicine and equipment to provide first aid during the night and at other times when local people, particularly women, cannot travel immediately to reach distant hospitals.
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Books for a rural community library
Country: Nepal
Make books available to everyone in a Nepalese village! Your Working Gift of books will support lifelong learning in the rural community of Devdaha in West Nepal. The library was recently opened as part of an integrated community plan facilitated and supported by ICA Nepal.
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Leadership training for an earthquake relief volunteer
Country: Peru
Help communities in Peru rebuild after the earthquake! ICA-trained community volunteers, or promotores, are leading their neighborhoods to build thousands of temporary houses in the wake of the 15 August 2007 earthquake.
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National ICA Staff Training Program Scholarship
Country: International
Make an investment in a promising ICA staffer and a national ICA! Your Working Gift will expand and deepen ICA’s impact by ensuring that national staff are rooted in the unique ICA history, values, and methods.
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Community Project Planning sessions for a young person
Country: United Kingdom
Support a young person to plan how they can improve their community! The “Plan It Yourself” project equips youth with skills for serving as leaders in their communities. ICA UK helps young people to begin to improve and change their communities in a full day or 2-3 part-day sessions.
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Browse Working Gifts by category, country, price range, and gift idea.
Give everyone on your list the gift that gives again!
Lambert Okrah
Secretary General
The Institute of Cultural Affairs International
555 René-Lévesque Blvd. West, Suite 500 Montréal, Québec H2L 2S4 Canada
www.ica-international.org
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