Yogasuits ~ Corporate yoga classes Sydney and London

For every term booked by a client, YogaSuits will purchase a nominated Oxfam Unwrapped gift (see examples below), and at the conclusion of the eight week term an e-card will be sent to the client from the Oxfam Unwrapped website

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That’s right - goat gifting is still a wise investment choice. Communities can start with one goat and end up with a herd. They can then be sold to raise funds for school fees or tools. Best of all, the first female kid is given to another family and the process starts all over again. A sensible gift for the big kid in all of us.

Chickens can be fantastic little feathery friends. With limited opportunities to earn money, raising chickens can offer a good living for women in poor and remote areas. Training women in income generating activities such as poultry rearing gives them the opportunity to earn money for themselves and their families. Don’t chicken out – buy 2, 4 or half a dozen today!

There are lessons in life that are invaluable and farmer training can change lives forever. With this gift, you’ll be providing training for farmers that will increase future harvests and income while teaching the benefits of environmentally-friendly farming practices.

Did you know that once cultivated, a one hectare garden can feed 1,926 people in Mozambique including home based care patients, caregivers and their families? A gardener’s pack, including a hoe, watering can, shovel and seeds, is enough to get the earth moving and would make the perfect present for green thumbs.

There’s nothing more exciting than seeing your tree bear fruit for the first time after all the hard work you put into its growth. This gift of 10 fruit trees, such as guava, papaya and coconut, will help provide communities with healthy food sources and a crop which they can sell. Definitely a healthy way to enjoy the fruits of your labour.

This simple gift is a prime example of how one purchase can make an ongoing difference. These high quality vegetable seeds ensure farmers in East Timor can improve the yield of their crops and help keep families healthy with better nutrition.

In Papua New Guinea, we support the Nana Kundi Crisis Counselling Centre, which offers counselling services and a safe space for women experiencing domestic violence. It also provides education about their rights - a life changing gift.

For many coastal communities, fishing provides the only means of earning a living. But often poor families can’t afford new fishing nets and equipment so when they break, families are driven further into poverty. This gift will provide fishermen – and women – with the means to purchase new nets, as well as helping them carry out repairs and maintenance on their fishing boats. Don’t let this gift be the one that got away.

In Zimbabwe, caregivers often walk 6km in difficult terrain to reach their patients and a gift of new shoes greatly helps them on their journey to assist people living with HIV. So let’s not forget the tireless work of these carers with a gift that helps them put their best feet forward.

You can help protect a family in Cambodia from sickness by providing them with a clean water ‘jar’. These nifty devices are a hygienic way to store and filter water, and stop any nasties getting in. And at only $14, that’s a present we can all drink to!

When the buzz of a mozzie keeps you awake, spare a thought for those in countries where malaria or dengue fever can be transmitted by these little critters. This gift of an insecticide treated net will kill any mosquito that lands on it. That should help you sleep easy at night.

Anyone will tell you that education is key when it comes to future growth. But across southern Africa, an increasing number of AIDS orphans are dropping out of school because they can’t afford the school fees. Your gift of school fees for a year will help kids to stay in school and reach their potential, giving them a chance to secure better jobs and a better future.

You can teach children while they’re young but what about those who never got to learn their ABC’s? Many adults in Cambodia have limited or almost no functional literacy. A gift of adult literacy classes, which includes the literacy classes, which includes the training of new teachers, provides those who may have missed out when they were younger the opportunity to learn some of life’s most important skills.

For more information please visit Oxfam Australia at www.oxfamunwrapped.com.au

During their stay in Mysore, India, some of the teachers at Yogasuits volunteer at the Bapuji Children’s and Old Age Home.