Heartland Alliance Catalog Offers Gifts That Provide Hope for a Hurting World

December 5, 2008

It's holiday shopping season again. There's a lot happening in our world right now, and with all of the economic instability, a lot of people are hurting. Especially in these times, many of us wince at the thought of getting another sweater or gadget that clutters our shelves. 

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights now has a great gift-giving alternative that recaptures the true spirit of the holidays in a meaningful way.

It's the Heartland Alliance Hope for a Hurting World Gift Catalog. Through the catalog, you can give unique gifts such as:

• For $15, you can buy a blanket and pillow for a refugee child to bring comfort and security to a child who possibly has never owned a single thing.
• For $75, a gift of a wellness checkup for a homeless newborn will give a new baby born into poverty a healthy start. 

You can find these and other life-changing gifts in the Hope for a Hurting World gift catalog at www.heartlandalliance.org/gifts. It's a great answer for anyone looking to make a statement in their gift-giving that provides both hope and inspiration. 

Gifts that you purchase through this catalog provide hope, comfort, justice, and healing to people in need, supporting the important work of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights. Heartland Alliance has been doing meaningful work for more than 120 years to help people in poverty and danger improve their lives and realize their human rights.

Your gift can help people like Prince: After 12 years in a refugee camp in the Ivory Coast, escaping Liberia's brutal civil war, Prince and his family arrived in Chicago. Heartland Alliance found the family an apartment and helped ease the transition to the United States with job search assistance, classes in English for the workplace setting, and guidance with enrolling the kids in public school.

Prince joined a soccer league for refugee youth and began taking an after-school course through Heartland Alliance that provides tutoring, life skills, and addiction prevention education. Now an eighth grader, Prince is a solid student; an avid reader, he's in the book club at school. He says the program has helped him with decision-making—like avoiding fights—and given him new perspective on being a refugee and a leader.

Help people like Prince and his family by purchasing a gift through the catalog. Here's how it works: Check out the Hope for a Hurting World gift catalog online at www.heartlandalliance.org/gifts. Select gifts you want to purchase and make them in honor of your family, friends, and business associates, or as tributes to people you know who positively touch the lives of others every day.

For each gift, Heartland Alliance will send a beautiful card to your honoree with a personalized message from you. You can also make last-minute gifts online with an e-card sent through e-mail. Your gift will be life-changing to someone in great need.

The catalog responds to changing gift-giving habits in the U.S., with a recent survey by Harris Interactive showing that 84 percent of people surveyed would prefer to receive a gift that would benefit someone else rather than a traditional present. This season more than ever, as we enter a new year and new chapter of our history, honor your friends and loved ones with a gift that shows your support for the issues you care about. Consider a gift from the Heartland Alliance Hope for a Hurting World gift catalog: www.heartlandalliance.org/gifts.

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