The Shopping List

Ever wondered what impact your donations could have on the lives of the needy?

Here’s a list of items you could buy to help a family out of poverty.

£5 provide a set of agricultural tools for a family in Myanmar to establish a home garden.

£10 could supply a child with materials required for learning, including a school bag, pen, pencil, notebook and painting kit.

£20 could enable a family of 5 to access approximately 15 litres of fresh drinking water for one day.

£80 could provide a small grant to a primary school to purchase equipment such as blackboards, books and desks.

£150 could install a toilet in a school to help improve sanitation.

£200 could install one well and water pump in a school to provide up to 160 students with fresh drinking water.

£200 could provide a poor family with one of the largest assets a small farming household can acquire, a cow.

£500 buys 70 impregnated mosquito nets to distribute to families living in Angola and other malarial zones.

£1000 could set up a village school in India, including teacher training and materials.
£5000 could purchase home care kits to restore cleanliness and dignity to 100 chronically ill AIDS patients for up to 3 years.

£10000 builds one haffir, a man-made reservoir that collects water in the rainy season. Just one haffir can collect and supply water to 4500 people for the entire 7 months of the dry season in Sudan.

Here’s another list of items you could buy to assist in responding to emergencies/disasters.

90p can provide a family with a “Safe Water System” to ensure that they have clean drinking water for a month.

£3.50 buys a fishing-net to replace those lost in natural disasters.

£5 could buy an emergency hygiene kit including shampoo, laundry soap, bath soap, sanitary napkins, towel, pail, lid, toothpaste and toothbrush.

£12 could pay for 8 shovels for people to rebuild a road.

£15 could provide a one-month food package that could feed a family of five for a whole month.

£36 can provide the materials necessary to reconstruct a family’s house.

£64 can provide 1000 pounds of rice.

£136 can provide lifesaving milk, cheese, sugar and high energy biscuits for 350 malnourished children in critically under-resourced hospitals.

£1000 buys with enough essential drugs and pharmaceutical equipment to treat 10000 people for a month in emergency zones.

£2500 can supply a day’s supply of emergency ready-to-eat food to 1500 families of five.

Both lists were sourced from CARE USA’s Finance Department and from CARE’s gift catalogue – 2005.