# Trócaire launches alternative Christmas gifts catalogue for third year

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/12/09/tra%c2%b3caire-launches-alternative-christmas-gifts-catalogue-third-year/
- Published: 2002-12-09T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Irish charity Trócaire has launched its Global Gift Plan, an alternative Christmas
gifts catalogue which lets donors ‘buy’ specific items such as an ox-plough, pig,
schoolbooks, beehive, or an artificial limb.
Based on the original idea by US non-
profit Heifer International, donors can buy a practical gift in the name of a friend
or relative, and that item will be delivered to a family in the developing world.
The relative or friend will receive an attractive personalised certificate and Christmas
card confirming the gift.

Trócaire, which has been running this catalogue since 2000, sees it as “an inspired
Christmas Gift which is ethical, non-commercial and life-changing… For many it has
reclaimed the Christmas values of goodwill and friendship.”

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