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Alternative Gifts International is a non-profit organization that inspires support for humanitarian and environmental causes. 
We offer donors the option to designate charitable gifts through carefully selected agencies in the name of their relatives, 
friends and associates.

More good news from an Alternative Gifts International  partner agency:

This note was just received from Karen Carr, Director of Community Coalition for Haiti (CCH).   Their current project is #34, Converting Waste to Charcoal.

“I was just in Haiti to visit the school and family gardens that CCH with the help of AGI implemented following the hurricanes last year in Bailly.  Truly a tremendous success....many of these villages with over 200 family and community gardens have been eating vegetables (like tomatoes, peppers, bak choy, lettuce, eggplant, okra) for the very first time over the last year, selling them in the markets, and vastly improving the nutrition of their children and families.  They have established seed and tool banks along with micro credit programs to sustain improved food security for the long term.  Combined with the reintroduction of the Creole Pig funded by AGI, this desperately poor region in the North is well on their way towards self reliance and improved lives. 

. .  ..wanted you to be aware of the tremendous difference AGI is making in Haiti....wait til you see how they are combining recycling with reforestation....fabulous!”

Select an alternative gift from life-sustaining, worldwide projects to honor family and friends

Teaching Youth to Care about Others / Global
We live in a world economy based primarily on wealth and materialistic need, fueled by planned obsolescence. At the same time most world leaders recognize a need for the intangibles—things that can’t be advertised, bought or sold...

Feeding Hungry Homeless / USA & Global
Poverty is more than not having money; it is the constant feeling of being hungry. It is the harsh reality that there is no home to go to and the lack of respect from other individuals. It is fear, desperation, and the sense of worthlessness....

Building Rural Medical Clinics / Bolivia
94% of Bolivia’s rural poor live on less than $1 a day, mostly from subsistence agriculture, and buying and reselling produce or items in open markets...

Changing Trash to Cash / Haiti
The toxic smoke causes respiratory ailments and increased environmental problems. In a country where 80% of its citizens live in poverty, they are literally burning potential income.