Global Village Fair
Global Village Fair is an online shopping catalogue that enables you to purchase gifts for friends of family that help people in developing countries by supporting Mothers' Union projects there.
When you give a gift from the catalogue, you are buying a virtual gift. If you choose, for example, 'Honey I'm home', you're resourcing the bee-keeping and mushroom-growing training described in the gift's outline.
You receive a card for each gift you're giving. The card has details of your gift, and comes with an envelope ready for you to personalise and send.
You can use Global Village Fair all year round for birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions.
Visit www.theglobalvillagefair.org
Ethical giving resourced an integrated farming project in six communities in Southern Malawi during the year, cultivating vegetables and keeping goats and poultry. Usually food here is expensive and shipped in. This programme helped 150 families regain control of their lives.
Source: Annual Review 2009/10 The Mothers' Union
