How it Works

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1. Select a Gift

Choose a gift from our range of life-changing items.

2. Give Your Gift

Send or give your card to your loved one... and become their new favourite person!

3. Transform Lives

Feel great knowing your gift will help give clean, safe water to some of the world's poorest people.

WaterAid’s Gifts for Life are the perfect way to give fantastic, unusual gifts to your family and friends… and help some of the world’s poorest people at the same time!

When you buy a gift from this catalogue, your friend or family member will receive an awesome Gift Card – showing the gift you purchased for them, and how it’s helping save lives. Your donation is then used to deliver water, sanitation and hygiene projects to the world’s poorest people – transforming their lives.

It’s like a waterfall of gift-giving happiness!

The best news of all is that each gift represents real items that we use in our projects. Your donation goes towards projects that literally help give people taps, toilets and water tanks, for example. Those things help save lives!

So you can feel great knowing your gift shopping is all taken care of right here. And your loved ones will get a smile from a gift that gives people a healthier, happier future.

Plus, as an extra help to you, your donation is completely tax deductible. And that’s always a gift!

Want to choose your own donation amount? Click here if you don't need a Gifts for Life card and want to make a general donation to WaterAid.

How the gifts prices have been calculated

The prices of gifts are calculated based on the costs associated with delivering that item or project and the number of beneficiaries. The gifts are examples of how your tax-deductible donation will be used to help provide some of the world’s poorest communities with access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene. The funds raised will support WaterAid’s water, sanitation and hygiene projects, including but not restricted to the items featured in this catalogue.

How the gifts prices have been calculated

How your gift for life will help

“I have to fetch water for my family down the hill at least three times a day,” Esther says bravely.

‘Sitting on the muddy stoop with her children, Esther looks much older than her 29 years’.

“For me it is really tough because I have to fetch water with my young children,” she adds.

When she says she walks “down a hill”, what she means is that she straps her baby girl to her back, and carefully picks her way down a steep, slippery mountainside.

When she gets to the bottom, she fills a large container from the contaminated river, and lugs it back up the hill for her children to drink.

“It’s very tiring for me,” she admits, “I often have neck and back pain you know and my children are often sick… They are so weak as we don’t have that much stuff to eat – bellyache and diarrhoea are something that we have to deal with … it is like every day.”

Esther knows that children in her village have died from dirty water. Can you imagine her worry for her own little ones?

There is some good news. If dirty water costs lives, clean water saves them!

Your Gift for Life will help keep mothers like Esther and her children safe from deadly diseases found in dirty water and set women and girls free from the burden of collecting it!

Each item is carefully chosen to help fund WaterAid projects that save the lives of children like Esther’s. And by giving a Gift for Life to friends and family, you’ll help spread the joy all around the world!

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