Gift Cards

Mission Direct Gift Cards are the perfect present for someone you know who cares about poverty and injustice and does not need another gift-set or chocolate fountain.

For each gift ordered, you will be sent a professional quality card. On the front is a picture from the project your gift money is supporting. Inside is a description of the gift that you have selected on behalf of the friend or loved one. You simply add the names and a further greeting. The entire amount donated goes directly to the project, with no deduction from the cost of the card. Gifts range from £3.00 (a school bag for a Zambian child) to £164.00 (a day's food for the 1000 schoolchildren).

Use these cards to say, ‘Happy Birthday’, ‘Happy Christmas’, ‘Thank You’ or even ‘Sorry’.

Uganda - Rukungiri

Projects supported by the Gift Cards in Rukungiri

• Rukungiri Modern Primary School. The Modern Primary school in Rukungiri houses 1,000 children. Many of them are orphans – often due to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in this region. Since 2006 Mission Direct has provided classrooms for over 300 children.
• Gables Vocational Training Centre. The Gables was started in order to provide skills to students leaving the Rukungiri Modern Primary School who were not going on to secondary education. The Gables is now providing tuition in a range of skills, such as dressmaking, bricklaying, computer skills, carpentry, administration, plumbing, and catering.
• Mothers’ Union Vocational Training Centre. The centre offers training in dressmaking and typewriting for young women too young to afford any further education to gain professional skills.
• Growers, Orphaned and Disabled Children’s Project. A Church run projects which simultaneously helps chilli farmers and disabled children. They work together to raise money and, at the same time offer care and education for the children who would otherwise be destitute.

To download a leaflet with more information click here.

To download an order form click here.

Uganda - Kumi

Projects supported by the Gift Cards in Kumi

• COHAD—Children of Hope and Dignity: The charity COHAD is building 40 homes to create an orphan village outside Kumi. Each one houses eight orphans and a house mother providing food, education and healthcare for the children once they are built.
• Kumi Health Centre: The Health Centre offers basic diagnosis and treatment for common illnesses like malaria and HIV. There are also maternity and labour wards helping women with complications in childbirth, still common in Uganda.
• PDS: The PDS is the development arm of the Kumi Pentecostal Assemblies of God church. PDS is involved with a number of issues, including: water provision for communities with no well, feeding programmes, care for vulnerable children and orphans and care for those with HIV Aids

To download a leaflet and order form click here.

Zambia

Projects supported by the Gift Cards in Zambia

• Fountain of Hope, Lusaka. Fountain of Hope exists to help Lusakas thousands of street children. Outreach workers talk to children on the streets, and invite them to stay at the Fountain of Hope, where there is accommodation, food, schooling, and health care. Children’s lives are turned around and many return to their original families.
• Chilenje Maids Training Centre. The centre offers girls and women - mostly orphans or widows – the chance to train as housemaids. They receive one month’s training, including home management, cleaning, cookery, nutrition, knitting and sewing. After training, students are found employers and regularly contacted.
• Kiine School. Kiine School exists to serve the under-privileged children from the adjacent Kaunda Square residential shanty town. The school was originally based in a converted house providing a basic Christian education to the children. New premises are currently being built to offer a better standard of education to more of these children.
• Agape Home-Based Care. Trained care-givers make regular visits to sick and needy people, some of whom live in isolated villages. In addition to personal care they offer food and blankets, along with transport to clinics when necessary.
• Kumbayah Ministries. Kumbayah operates in the desperately poor shanty towns of Lusaka. Over 340 children attend the tiny school in three shifts each day, also receiving a hot meal. 77 families are given food for weekends.

To download a leaflet with more information click here.

To download an order form click here.