GOAL's gifts really do make a difference

Despite it being six weeks to Christmas, GOAL’s Christmas Gifts campaign is well underway and is already attracting the interest of shoppers searching for unusual and meaningful gifts for their loved ones this festive season.


Seed packs, hygiene kits and mosquito nets make up just some of the nine Christmas Gifts that have been made available by GOAL this year. All will, as ever, help the GOAL teams feed, educate and protect vulnerable people and families across the developing world.


Although GOAL’s Gifts have always proved a very popular Christmas purchase, GOAL’s Head of Fundraising and Marketing, Lisa O’Shea is optimistic that they will attract even more interest amongst shoppers this year.


“Given their diversity and practicality, the gifts are always popular, but people seem to be making an extra effort in recent times to find presents for their loves ones that will genuinely make a difference to people who badly need our help,” she said. “I think that everyone knows that GOAL’s Christmas Gifts tick all those boxes.”


A vegetable seed pack, a plastic tarpaulin, toothpaste or soap may not seem like ideal Christmas presents, but, as Ms. O’Shea explains, for families in the developing world, they can mean the difference between life and death.


“The GOAL Gifts can provide vulnerable people and families with an opportunity to improve their lives; they can protect them from starvation or disease; and they can give them a chance to escape poverty. They are much, much more than just Christmas presents.”


Priced from as little as €5, there is a GOAL Gift to suit every budget this Christmas. To purchase a GOAL Gift, or to find out more about the campaign, please visit www.goal.ie, or call 01 2809 779.