2. Real Gifts are life changing, inspirational gifts that will mean a better life for someone living in poverty.

3. SCIAF Real Gifts supply lots of essential items from school books to wheelchair repair kits or different animals like pigs, sheep and goats. They even supply water wells that will supply a WHOLE village with clean safe drinking water!

4. Chickens! Chickens will provide a family with a nutritious supply of eggs to keep hungry children happy and healthy. When the chickens breed, the family can sell the chicks to earn extra income to pay for the other essentials like schools fees and medicines.

5. The families will be able to sell the chicks and earn extra money

6. The eggs from the chickens will mean a healthier diet for the children

7. The money can then be used to buy other items such as medicine and school books

8. “I benefit a lot from the chickens. I sell the eggs and my children eat some too. I used to struggle a lot to get the basic things. I am grateful to SCIAF and I hope to be able to pass on some chicks to my neighbours” Belaynesh Menku, Ethiopia

9. Passing on the chicks will mean lots of other families will be helped too

10. Help plant an allotment In Colombia this gift provides seeds, tools and training to build a large vegetable garden at a school in the area. Hosting the garden at a school gives children the opportunity to learn to grow a wide variety of crops and everyone in the community can come and grow food there too.

11. Fact file: Colombia Capital city: Bogota Population: 46,927,125 Size: 1,142,000 km² Life expectancy: 74 years Religion: Christianity Currency: Colombian Peso

12. It will supply food for the entire community

13. By providing seeds and tools the children will be able to grow their own dinners

14. Thank you Created by SCIAF, Photo Credits: Sean Sprague, Thomas Omondi, SCIAF www.sciaf.org.uk/realgifts