Ethical Gifts - Pageant supporting education in The Gambia

What is more they are not faced with the daunting task of trying to take an unwanted item back to the shops!

	These gifts will be purchased and distributed by Pageant and your friend or relative will get a Pageant Gift Token - see specimen
	Star Gifts - Pageant has found that these particular gifts are always especially welcomed by their recipients in The Gambia
	These gifts will be purchased and distributed by GEPADG and your friend or relative will get a GEPADG Gift Token - see specimen

Where possible, all gifts will be purchased in The Gambia, thus avoiding transportation costs, helping the local economy, and providing very good value for money. The gifts marked (UK) will be purchased in the UK. Please look through the list of Ethical Gifts below, make your selection, and then use our order form.

Christmas cards At Christmas you can also purchase four designs of Pageant Christmas Cards in packs of five (see the cards)

£4.50

	Gifts	Cost
	Pack of 10 exercise books Your Ethical Gift provides a Gambian family with a pack of 10 exercise books - many schools cannot provide the exercise books needed by all the children, so they must either provide their own or go without. (more info)	£6.50
	Mosquito net + 1 litre of insecticide Your Ethical Gift provides a Gambian family with a mosquito net and insecticide as a preventative measure against malaria. Malaria is the biggest cause of death in The Gambia, particularly in children under five. (more info) (news item about mosquito nets)	£7.50
	16 Mosquito nets + insecticide 'Bulk Deal' By buying 16 nets at a time, Pageant gets a very good quantity discount, so this bulk deal is excellent value for both the donor and the recipient in The Gambia. (news item about bumper bundle)	£60
	Large 'Thermos' flask Your Ethical Gift provides a large 'Thermos' or other vacuum flask, for taking hot drinks out to the field or garden, and for leaving with elderly relatives when the other family members are at work or school.	£10
	Watering can Your Ethical Gift provides a watering can for a school or village vegetable garden in The Gambia. School gardens are a valuable resource. They are they used for teaching purposes and much of the produce is used in the school kitchens. The watering can will be invaluable for caring for the young plants, so much better than the buckets which are all most schools and villagers can afford. (more info) (read about the vegetable gardens)	£12.00
	Banana plants Your Ethical Gift provides 5 banana plants for the garden of a school or family compound. The banana plants grow quickly and will provide fruit in their second season - shade is an added bonus as they mature. The plants can be split each year, providing greater numbers and more fruit, both for the family and for sale. (more info) (read about vegetable gardens)	£12.00
	Boots for GEPADG rangers or wardens Your Ethical Gift provides a pair of boots for GEPADG rangers, wardens or field workers for their safety in the field. (more info)	£12.50
	Gardening set - rake, spade & hoe Your Ethical Gift provides the women or children who tend their vegetable gardens with a set of tools - a rake, a spade & a hoe. Even such basic tools as these are beyond the means of most schools and groups of women. (more info)	£12.50
	Large cooking pot Your Ethical Gift provides a large cooking pot and serving bowl for a family. Such cooking pots are the mainstay of family life and are much prized by the women who use them. When a couple are married these large pots are among the most sought-after wedding gifts. (more info)	£14.50
	Mangrove seedlings Your Ethical Gift buys seedlings to regenerate areas of mangrove forest, providing a resource for the people of Gunjur, protecting the coastline and providing refuge for fish, birds and animals. (more info)	£15.00
	School bag Your Ethical Gift provides a Gambian child from a poor family with a school bag, exercise book, pencil case, pens, pencils and other contents. These are the basic essentials for lessons in school, which his/her family would be unable to afford. (more info)	£16.50
	Mango trees Your Ethical Gift provides 5 mango trees for the garden of a school or family compound. The mango trees do not grow as quickly as the bananas but will provide good fruit and shade in a few years. Mangos provide a welcome source of vitamins and a good mango crop is a real bonus to a poor family. (more info)	£20.00
	Sack of rice Your Ethical Gift provides a 50Kg sack of the best rice for a family compound. Rice is the staple food of most Gambians and a bag of rice such as this will feed a large family for a month. Gambian farmers grow rice during the wet summer months, but there is never enough to last the whole year. Families must therefore buy imported rice, which has increased greatly in price during the past few months - many of the poorer people can only afford the scrapings that have burst from split bags when being unloaded from the container ships. (more info)	£22.50
	School uniform (2 sets) Your Ethical Gift provides school uniform for a child of a poor family. Many schools insist on uniform being worn and it is sometimes the cost of this that makes the family unable to send a child to school. Your gift will provide two uniforms and a pair of school shoes for a child that would otherwise not be at school. (more info)	£25.00
	Tools: 1 Cutlass, 1 Rake, 1 Saw Your Ethical Gift will be used to buy tools used in maintenance and annual tree planting exercises in the Gunjur mangrove reclamation area. (more info)	£25.00
	First aid kit (UK) Your Ethical Gift provides a basic First Aid kit for a family compound. Most families cannot afford such items as disinfectant, antiseptic ointments, adhesive dressings for cuts and grazes, cotton wool or painkillers. This means that minor injuries or ailments can cause unnecessary distress, which this kit will go a long way to alleviate. (more info)	£35.00
	Trekker microscope + case (UK) Your Ethical Gift provides a microscope for a Gambian school Science class or club. The microscope is compact, robust and easy to use by children either inside the classroom or outside while collecting plants, insects or other items of interest. This new microscope is called the Trekker and is ideal for use in the Gambian schools, where there is no electricity and in most cases no equipment of any sort for scientific experiment or investigation. (further information about the Trekker microscope)	£35.00
	Pageant loan Your Ethical Gift provides a start-up fund to enable village women to set up their own small businesses. An interest-free micro-loan of £37.50 will finance a business opportunity for one woman - when she pays back the loan, the money will be lent to another woman, and so on... (more info)	£37.50
	Large covered foam mattress Your Ethical Gift provides a large mattress for nursery children to have an afternoon nap after lunch - used by Nurseries and day-care centres (more info)	£40.00
	Wheelbarrow Your Ethical Gift provides the vegetable garden of a Gambian school or village with a wheelbarrow. Many of these 'gardens' cover large areas, rather resembling large groups of allotments. The presence of a wheelbarrow will enable large amounts of compost and water containers to be moved from place to place, as well as the plants that are eventually to be marketed. (read about vegetable gardens)	£47.50
	Wheelbarrow Your Ethical Gift will provide a wheelbarrow for use in village cleaning days, monthly beach sweeping and annual tree planting exercises in the Gunjur area. (more info)	£47.50
	3-seater desk & seat unit Your Ethical Gift provides a desk and seat unit for up to three nursery or young primary school children. Pageant commissioned a local carpenter to design and make this integrated desk and seat unit, and they have been supplied to several schools including Campama Lower Basic School. (more info)	£48.00
	Bicycle Your Ethical Gift provides a bicycle for a senior student to travel to school or college. Many such students miss vital college lessons because they are unable to afford the bus fare to travel to college every day and it is too far to walk. A bicycle means that they can become self sufficient as far as their transport is concerned. (more info)	£50.00
	Bicycles for GEPADG community wardens and rangers Your Ethical Gift provides a bicycle enabling GEPADG to respond quickly and effectively to illegal activities such as bush fires, illegal hunting, tree felling, poaching and turtle hunting. (more info)	£50.00

When you have decided which Ethical Gifts you would like to donate, please print out our Gift Order Form (see below), and send it to us with your cheque to the address shown on the form. Please allow us about a week so we can get the tokens back to you in time for you to send out.

The Gift Order Form is in both Word and PDF format. If you like, you can type in your selection on the Word version before you print it. We have designed the order form so that you can order any number of tokens for any number of your friends and relatives. We can supply an appropriate number of with a maximum of one per token. You can also ask us to send a single token covering more than one of the same item. If you cannot specify just what you want on the form, please use the back for any other information, comments or special requests, or you can print and send us several forms.

If you are a UK tax payer, then please consider completing the Gift Aid Declaration at the bottom of the Order Form. This will allow Pageant to reclaim tax on your donation, currently 28p for every £1 you donate, and use this extra money to give further help to schools, children and villagers in The Gambia. If you have already sent us this declaration, then you don't need to do it again.

If you would like more more information before selecting your gift please contact by email