Especially during Holidays many of us would like to give little presents to people we have taken into our hearts.Considering overseas postage expenses and applicable import tax, we believe, this is a fantastic alternative! Directaida’s partners and volunteers in country buy your gift for you, deliver it and take photos all you have to do is click 
and feel good about it.
This is what Directaida can deliver to your giftee:
- Nutritious fresh meal with a nutritious combination of traditional foods including maize meal, dry beans and pulses, powdered milk, oil, porridge mix and fresh fruit and vegetables (including tomatoes, potatoes, cooking bananas and seasonal greens and fruit). They have to do the cooking themselves!
- Nutritious dry meal with a nutritious combination of traditional dried foods including maize meal, dry beans and pulses, powdered milk and porridge mix.
- Nutritious fresh meal with meat – as fresh meal above, but with meat added (suitable to one meat meal in five).
- School supplies (basic supplies) – for individuals and non-government schools, these will consist of exercise books, pens, pencils, stationery etc. One unit provides basic supplies for 30 pupils suitable for a whole year’s use. If you order 5 units, 4 will go to children’s supplies and one to teacher’s (and so on).
- School supplies (textbooks) – textbooks are provided one between three children in most government schools in Kenya so even kids in government schools may still need them. One unit provides textbooks for 5 primary school children or 3 secondary. If you order 5 units, 4 will go to children’s supplies and one to teacher’s (and so on).
- School supplies (supplementary materials) – as appropriate (you can indicate or they will liase with beneficiary). One unit provides supplementary supplies for 5 primary school children or 2 secondary. If you order 5 units, 4 will go to children’s supplies and one to teacher’s (and so on).
- Supermarket voucher – major supermarkets in Kenya offer a wide range of food, school supplies (but not textbooks), household goods, garden implements and some clothes.
- Celebration gift – suitable for birthday, Holiday, exam success etc. Gift will include one book, one age-appropriate toy, cake or cookies, card with message from yourself. Celebration gift is for one child only.
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If you are looking to do something different and positive when it comes to buying gifts then you are on the right page…
Why not buy something really useful for someone needy out in Kenya? Many of us in the West find it really difficult to choose a suitable gift for others or to think of something we ourselves would like at Holidays or birthday time. Some people would love to stop sending hundreds of Holiday cards and instead send a gift to those in need. Directaida is now offering the opportunity to do just this…
Choose your gift or gifts from the list below.
School desk – allows 3 or 4 children to work normally rather than sitting on a damp floor
School uniform – helps a young orphan feel a full member of their school
Mosquito net – protects against malaria which still kills more people than AIDS
Blankets – nights are cold at 5,000 feet above sea level, especially for young children sleeping on bamboo mats on the floor
Multi-vitamin and Septrin treatment for HIV-positive patients – health and energy levels are greatly enhanced
90 kg bag of maize ( for Orphanages)
50 kg organic fertilizer – to encourage the crops ( North West parts of Kenya esp. for our French Bean Project)
Local goat
High yield cross-breed goat – compares well with a cow for quantity of milk
Seeds – for sowing the vital crops which are the widows’ lifeblood
Bicycle – for rural transport
Insecticides – to protect the crops
Knapsack sprayer – allows efficient delivery of insecticides
Local cow or 2 young heifers
Good quality high yield cow
Donkey
Foot-operated water pump– to water the crops
Cart for donkey
Ploughing bull
Donkey and cart – vital for transporting water and produce
Corrugated iron roofing materials for a new roof – many of the widows’ houses are in a poor state and have thatched roofs
Poultry rearing unit with 10 chickens and a cockerel – will give a widows’ group both nutritious food and income generating opportunities
Pair of ploughing bulls with plough – the working heart of a community
When you send in your gift order the money will be used to buy the selected item(s) out in Kenya. We will send you a greetings card as a thank you for your kindness. You may wish to send the card on to the person for whom you have bought the gift (if you are buying the gift for someone else).
To ensure the total integrity of all donations the following system operates on the ground out in Kenya:
- details of gifts are emailed to Kenya and decisions on group allocations are communicated to all those involved.
- The money is transferred to Kenya.
- The gifts are purchased.
- The gifts are then presented by group gatherings attended by Community Board members and staff, invariably with the taking of photographs to record the occasion.
By collective involvement and total transparency, integrity is assured together with much goodwill.
Thank you for your order and thank you for thinking of those in Kenya who will receive your gift.
