Give the gift of HOPE -
Celebrating our lives by helping those in need

When thinking of new ideas to celebrate big holiday celebrations, anniversaries and birthdays with our friends and loved ones,
why not give a Gift of HOPE from the
HOPE Gift Catalogue?
 
In this time of economic turmoil we must not forget those who are too easily forgotten, the neglected poor.
 
When writing up your holiday gift list please keep in mind our HOPE Gift Catalogue. These gifts are truly gifts of hope; hope for a better future for families and communities in the world’s poorest communities. You can make the gift in your own name, or give twice by giving in someone else's name. We will send you a special HOPE Card for you to forward to your loved one, or alternatively give us the message you would like to include and we will send the Gift Card directly to the person who you made this generous gift in the name of.
  
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Remember, all gifts in the HOPE Gift Catalogue will change the life of a family in desperate need and in this time of economic turmoil we must not forget those who are too easily forgotten, the neglected poor.

2010 Catalogue

Our mission is to extend compassion to the neglect poor... often what the poor need first, is access to clean water. 
 
It is quite remarkable that once made available, accessible clean water lifts an extremely poor family out of poverty quickly and permanently.
 
 
Water is truly the gift of life. This gift will allow a well to be constructed for 5-6 families in Cambodia (Pursat Province) who will share its resource and work with HOPE on an ongoing basis in leveraging safe accessible water for better health, sustainable food production and micro enterprise.


In Ethiopia and Sudan, HOPE is providing water solutions to entire villages. These systems provide safe, accessible water for thousands of families.
  • Southern Ethiopia and the southern Philippines.
    Water pipelines from capped springs for a village of 2000 people 3,000,000 yen
 
Section 2 - Education: a gift of a futureWhether it is girls in Afghanistan, children from Indigenous groups in the Philippines or the rural poor in Pursat Province of Cambodia, your gift can help empower and equip young people with the education they need to create a better future for themselves, their families and their communities.
 
 
For only 2500 yen you can equip one student in Cambodia or Afghanistan with the needed uniform, textbook and basis supplies needed to attend school for one year. Or fund an entire class of 50!
How about funding an entire school?!
 

In the Philippines, poor rural children do not have the means to go to school. For 1,000 yen a month you can do precisely that.
With a better education, the children of the poor have a better future. 
 
(Note: Five years of schooling is 60,000 yen) 
 
 
Help support a Filipino university student who is from a community where HOPE has been working. Upon graduation, the students are committed to returning to their communities to spend at least two years developing and leading a sustainable development project.
(Cost for a four-year program is 400,000 yen per student)
 

3,200,000 yen will build a concrete school in rural Cambodia for 150 students.
This works out to just over 21,000 yen per a student.
 
 
Complete a school in Afghanistan:
Currently we have funds for 40% of a school in Afghanistan that will serve 1,200 students, 50% of whom are girls.  The total cost is 19,000,000 yen. There will be 12 classrooms, filled with boys half of the day and girls the other half.  You may not be able to complete the entire school, but perhaps you can fund a class for 800,000 yen.
 
 
Section 3 - Unique gifts that make a difference
 
 
This handy solar light helps a rural family to extend their working hours and enables the children to do homework in the evening.
 

This exciting project is truly unique and much appreciated by the rural poor of Cambodia and DR Congo Afghanistan. A cow is purchased by HOPE and loaned to a family who use it for 18 months. During that time, they are able to use it to fertilize and plow their fields. But that is not all; during that time the Cow gives birth to a calf! At the end of 18 months the Calf is kept by the family and the Cow returned to HOPE, who, in turn, loans it to another poor family. This cycle is repeated 6 to 7 times leaving behind 6 to 7 happy families and calves!
 

Make a gift of 50,000yen to the MicroCredit fund and provide the capital for one self-help group to truly be self reliant. Your gift will not only keep giving but also grow in size, eventually helping other self help groups too.  This is how HOPE MicroCredit works:
  • Step One: A donation is made to the HOPE Capital Fund
  • Step Two: HOPE Capital Fund loans on average 500 USD to a self-help group who are usually already benefiting from a HOPE water project.
  • Step Three: Members of the self-help group decide whom among their members to loan money to. The recipient pays back the loan with reasonable interest to the self-help group.
  • Step Four: Eventually the self-help group returns the original capital to the HOPE Capital Fund as they have now built up enough capital themselves to keep their own fund going. 
  • The cycle then starts again with a new group.
Whether your gift is of 50,000yen, 500,000 yen or 5million yen you can be assured that your gift will grow helping more and more people in the years to come.
 
 
At this time of giving, a HOPE membership for yourself or someone you love will provide a connection with those who are in need of being self-reliant.
 
An annual HOPE membership offers an immeasurable value at 1,000 yen per month (12,000 per year) for an individual membership, and only 1,500 yen per month (18,000 per year) for a family membership. In addition to the satisfaction you get from knowing you are making a difference, HOPE members also receive special invitations and discount entry into various events throughout the year.