Children, especially teens nowadays as they grow older, seem to have everything they need. The iPod, the Xgames, the designer clothes, the digital camera and the cellphone. Ideas for gifts for the upcoming holidays are almost insurmountable.
Here are a few that can be easy on the budget, fun, and give teens some sense of responsibility outside their own world:
Buy a family or a community what they need. A goat, a few hens and a rooster, seed for the farm, medicine for the community health center, educational material where it is truly needed.
http://www.greatgifts.org/
Another site that is rather fun and can (at least for me) help increase your vocabulary. From the United Nations and with the assistance of it's advertisers:
www.freerice.com
"For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program." Try to get to level 50!
Trust me it's addictive, if you don't want to spend the next hour or so on the computer, don't click on the link (I haven't detected any pop-ups).
Let's assist with making the world a better place.
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