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Alternative Gifts

Your Alternative Gift is a donation which supports the work of our trusted Christian Middle East partners in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. Every penny that you spend goes directly to the Middle East, to the people who need it most.

You can choose to give the gifts of education, healthcare, and community development to the most marginalised and vulnerable communities in the Middle East and change a life for the better! An Alternative Gift is so much more than a card, it is the gift of hope and a bright future

Embrace the Middle East Alternative gifts - how it works

What actually happens when you buy an Alternative Gift?

We’ll use your generosity to bring as much positive change as possible.

As an example when you buy Tools for Success, we send you a gift card to keep or pass on to a loved one, then we process your donation. In this case, once your money gets to the Middle East it could pay for any of the following:

1. Training and advice to help entrepreneurs bring viable business ideas to life.
2. Materials and tools required as part of the start-up.
3. The Gift of Community Development.

Your donation will be allocated to the relevant category, enabling you to fund a cause you really care about.

If you are buying the item to gift to a friend, there is space inside for you to write a personal gift message to them. 

Alternative Gifts also come with an inspirational tear-off bookmark.

Education

Investing in education is one of the most powerful and effective ways to help people lift themselves out of poverty; giving them essential skills to improve their own lives and make a difference in their communities, learn literacy, numeracy and practical life skills.

Your donation gives the gift of confidence, self-worth and independence as children and adults who have missed out on education due to war, displacement, disability or economic hardship.

Gifts of education provide all that's needed for everyone to learn in a safe, secure and inspiring space and work towards a bright future.

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Education alternative gifts
School Is Cool Alternative Gift

The Gift of Education

Your School Is Cool Alternative Gift will help refugee children access education and grow in confidence and self-worth by gaining life skills and developing friendships.

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Alternative Gift Book Worm

The Gift of Education

Your Book Worm Alternative Gift will fill a library with books and activities for children and teenagers. Provide a safe space, sound advice and open a world of imagination for young people. 


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Healthcare

Embrace works in regions across the Middle East to ensure high-quality healthcare is available to those from all backgrounds and walks of life.

Your donations help pay for nurse training to ensure the availability of well-trained healthcare professionals, hygiene kits, medication and pop-up clinics, helping aid workers provide life-saving care for those who would otherwise miss out due to poverty or lack of transport.

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Healthcare Alternative gifts
Alternative gift The Extra Mile

The Gift of Healthcare

Your Extra Mile Alternative Gift will help the Princess Basma Centre to provide excellent disability care for their patients in Jerusalem and at their pop-up clinics in Gaza.

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Alternative Gift An injection of Hope

The Gift of Healthcare

Your Healthcare in Gaza Alternative Gift will help our Christian partners to provide vital primary healthcare, surgery and specialist disability treatment across the Gaza strip.

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Community Development

Embrace’s community development work spans a wide range of projects, including vocational training programmes, women’s empowerment and reconciliation work.

Your gifts help our Christian partners provide bricks, water pipes, roofing and cooking equipment, turning derelict buildings and tattered tents into homes. They also run hygiene and cookery classes, introducing whole communities to safer, healthier living.

Your gifts help our partners directly too as they continue to develop project management skills, ensuring every penny of their funds is used effectively to make the greatest impact.

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Embrace the Middle East alternative gifts supporting community development projects
Alternative Gift Legend Dairy

The Gift of Community Development

Your Legend Dairy Alternative Gift will support the ongoing development work of a church-owned community dairy farm in Lebanon, providing sustainable income and fresh produce for both the farmer and local community.

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Alternative gift A Safe Place to Play

The Gift of Community Development

Your A Safe Place to Play Alternative Gift will pay for a Syrian child to attend a Child Friendly Space five times a week, improving their mental wellbeing. 

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