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With every Gifts for Life purchase, you help facilitate healthier, more fulfilling lives for those in communities struggling with poverty, hunger and disease. See your Gifts for Life at work in the lives of people across the globe.

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Watering Community in Nicaragua Watering Community in Nicaragua

Watering Community in Nicaragua

Fanor is a farmer from Jucuapa Abajo in Matagalpa Zone in Nicaragua. The farm needed a lot of water to stay operational, and water service in the summer was spotty at best. Then he received Seeds, Tools & Training, where he learned new irrigation techniques. Fanor constructed a series of micro-dams on his farm, which allow him to reduce the amount of water he draws from a natural spring.

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Harvesting Abundance in Nicaragua

Harvesting Abundance in Nicaragua

Nora is an entrepreneur and family gardener from Somoto, Nicaragua. Her husband is away most of the year caring for his sick sister, leaving Nora to tend their garden on her own. Before connecting with our partner, the Council of Protestant Churches of Nicaragua (CEPAD), her harvests yielded next to nothing.

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Bringing Families Together in Namibia

Bringing Families Together in Namibia

Like so many parents around the world, Mirjam in Okatana, Namibia, always wanted what was best for her young children, but she was never quite sure how best to nurture their development. When she participated in a volunteer community training program through Episcopal Relief & Development, where she learned to Nurture & Nourish the Earliest Learners, her whole perspective on early childhood development shifted.

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Since 1940, Episcopal Relief & Development has been working alongside church partners all across the world to facilitate transformative, lasting change. Explore all Gifts for Life categories, which are based on the four key priorities of community development proven to be most effective in our faith-based work: early childhood development, women and girls, climate resilience and disaster response.