For each gift ordered, you will be sent a card that inside describes the gift you have chosen. There is an appropriate photograph on the front and a description of the project on the back. You simply add who it is to and from before giving it. There is a variety of gifts to choose from, ranging from £2 to £20. Read abut the projects, then decide which gifts you’d like to give.
Gift Cards make an interesting alternative gift for Christmas, birthdays and anniversaries, or as a ‘thank you’ for a meal or favour. The entire amount listed by each card, plus any tax reclaimed, goes to the project.
Please download the following PDF order form to make your donation to Mission Direct: Gift Card Leaflet & Order Form – Kumi – Mission Direct (PDF)
More about The Gifts
COHAD—Children of Hope and Dignity
The charity COHAD is building 40 homes to create an orphan village at Kanyum, 15km outside Kumi. The village is modelled on the Watoto communities in Kampala, where each house becomes home to eight orphans and a housemother, providing love and a safe haven in a family environment.
During the summer of 2011, Mission Direct volunteers built houses 9 and 10, thus completing the first cluster of houses. COHAD provides food, education and healthcare for the children in their care, and as more housemothers are recruited and the houses filled with more orphans, the challenge to fund COHAD increases. The demand may not be for blocks, cement and roofing sheets over the next 12 months, but the need for help with the expenses of daily living and nurturing the prospective eighty orphans in the first cluster is real. A school uniform, school fees, a meal, or a trip to the health centre can all be funded through these gift cards.
Kumi Health Centre
The Health Centre is the only governmentfunded health facility serving the 30,000 Ugandans living in and around Kumi in NE Uganda. Over the past two years, Mission Direct volunteers have cleaned and redecorated the two wards, paid to have the patient latrines emptied and then cleaned, and painted them and redecorated the outpatients department, inside and out, and provided wash stands and bowls for the latrines.
But so much more is needed – mosquito nets and stands, drugs and dressings, birthing kits and baby clothes for young mothers who have nothing for their new-born babies. Michael - the ‘in-charge’ – does his best, and the ever smiling Flora does what she can with the minimal resources. A small gift can make such a difference to at least some of the crowd who are there every morning, filling the waiting rooms and spilling out onto the veranda. Queuing with patience and dignity, many with very sick babies, they know that their illnesses can probably be diagnosed, but that there will probably not be the drugs to treat it.
PDS — Planning and Development Secretariat
PDS is the welfare arm of the PAG church that Mission Direct work with in Kumi, North East Uganda. Working through PDS, volunteers have been able to go into rural villages to repair mud huts and build new houses for vulnerable people. Mission Direct volunteers have also taken food aid to villages that PDS have singled out as being in particular need. A gift made through PDS will be able to buy a villager a much needed mosquito net, a clean new mattress, food for a week, or even some chickens or a goat.
