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The alternative Gift for Christmas
Struggling to choose an unique gift for someone this Christmas?

Be it your niece or nephew, your mother, father, brother, sister, friend or neighbour, doesn’t it sometimes feels as though we are spending money for the sake of it and somehow missing the real meaning of Christmas?

Bóthar has come up with an unique solution - a Christmas Gift Catalogue. This catalogue is full of great gift ideas which are an ethical and caring alternative to a CD or a pair of socks. Included you will find a range of living gifts which you can give to families in developing communities on behalf of others. You can now buy a share of a dairy cow or a camel, a flock of hens, a hive of bees or a trio of rabbits for a family in need.

Bóthar will use your donation to send a life-saving animal to a family in one of its project areas and in return Bóthar will send you a Christmas Gift Card, telling of the gift that you have made, which you can present to someone special on Christmas morning.
But the giving doesn’t stop there . . .

Each family that receives an animal must promise to ‘pass-on’ the gift of live stock by donating the first female offspring born to their animal to another needy family that is also involved in the Bóthar programme.

Through this ‘pass-on’ tradition your gift multiplies and has the power to help an entire community over many years.

Produce from the animals in the form of milk and honey, cheese and eggs can provide a family with a vitally important daily source of nutrition. Any surplus produce can be sold to earn a little money for other foodstuff, clothing, medicine and necessities. Most developing world families greatest dream is to send their children to school to get an education and get a chance to break out of the cycle of poverty - A living gift from Bóthar gives each family an opportunity to do just that.

Each gift chosen from the catalogue will be acknowledged with a special Christmas gift card featuring the animal you have chosen and telling of the gift you have made. You can then present the card or certificate to someone special on Christmas morning.

So this year before you rush out and buy another unnecessary gift have a look through ‘The Most Important Gift Catalogue This Christmas’ and consider the gift of life!

Your copy of The Most Important Gift Catalogue This Christmas will be coming through your letterbox in the coming days. In the meantime, you can browse our catalogue on-line by clicking this link!

To order from the catalogue by phone call 1850 82 99 99 or send in your donation to Bóthar, Old Clare Street, Limerick.

PS. Don’t forget to send us a story in the New Year about how well your special and unusual gift was received on Christmas morning gift!

The Bó Vine Christmas 2005