Find gifts for family or friends from the Diapalante’s Special Gift Card range. Each card sponsors a particular aspect of our work. The card has a space for you to add your own message, before giving it to your relative or friend.
Helping Street Children – Education Basics – Fun and Challenges – Improving Job Prospects – Gift Vouchers
Helping Street Children
These gifts benefit the talibes, young boys who live in poverty spending many hours each day on the streets, begging for alms. The gifts below help to improve their basic health care, preventing and treating their most common ailments.
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Helping Street Children – Education Basics – Fun and Challenges – Improving Job Prospects – Gift Vouchers
Education Basics
The Diapalante Community Education Centre in Kaolack Senegal welcomes anyone who wants to learn. Youngsters fill the centre until evening when adults come to lean English (important for trade) or computer skills. Such opportunities to learn are needed but rare, in a country where 4 out of 10 children do not complete primary education (World Bank 2014).
Library in a Box £250
£250 funds a library in a box for a rural classroom. The class receives a box of 50 books. The books can be exchanged at Diapalante’s library to ensure a constant flow of different books.
Mastering Maths £5
You sponsor an adult or child to attend a basic maths course. Mastering these skills is helpful for running a home or a business.
Internet for Learning £25
You provide a months internet access for the 20+ computers at the Diapalante Community Centre in Senegal. A huge range of free learning opportunities are utilised in lessons and for homework.
Sponsor a day £50
You are sponsoring a whole day’s learning for all at the Diapalante Community Education Centre. The use of the computers and internet, the library, lessons for children and adults.
Gift Vouchers – Helping Street Children – Education Basics – Fun and Challenges – Improving Job Prospects
Fun and Challenges
These gifts offer the chance to develop wider interests. The activities are fun but also encourage creative thinking, planning, teamwork, and leadership.
These are useful skills for surviving the challenge of living in one of the world’s “least developed countries” (United Nations classification).
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Gift Vouchers – Helping Street Children – Education Basics – Fun and Challenges – Improving Job Prospects
Improving Job Prospects
These gifts enable adults and children to develop skills which open doors and improve job prospects.
Gift Vouchers – Helping Street Children – Education Basics – Fun and Challenges – Improving Job Prospects
Gift Vouchers
Gift Voucher £10, £20, £30 …
Give a gift voucher card to anyone you feel would enjoy choosing between the special gifts in this catalogue. The vouchers are available in multiples of £10 to spend by post or email.
Gift Vouchers – Helping Street Children – Education Basics – Fun and Challenges – Improving Job Prospects
Give 25% More Free!
Because the Gift Cards below and our Advent Calendar are considered donations, they are eligible for Gift Aid, which can boost the value of your donation to us by 25%. If you are a UK taxpayer and wish to Gift Aid your eligible gifts please complete the form which will appear after checkout.
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