Gift Catalogue
The Generosity Shop · Thanksgiving and Christmas 2026
Give the gift they will never forget.
Most presents are forgotten by February. A warm bed in Lethbridge, a teacher’s wage in Burkina Faso or a goat for a family changes someone’s whole year. Honour the people you love, and let your generosity reach your own city and the world.
133 gifts · 48 programs · 21 countries · From $5
The 1 Million Meals Hunger Solution
Poverty may always be with us. Hunger does not have to be.
Every 27¢ you give counts as one meal toward one million. Churches, schools, kids and birthdays: everyone can fill a bowl.
The problem
Perhaps you are tired of gifts that end up in a drawer.
Every season the carts fill up and, by February, most of it is forgotten. Meanwhile, in the communities where we work, a family with a few hens, a desk or a net, or a neighbour here at home with a hot meal and a safe bed, can change the whole direction of a year.
You want your giving to mean something.
You want the people you love to feel honoured, not handed one more thing to store.
Opportunity is out of reach.
Hardworking parents and gifted children miss out on school, health and income because of one missing tool.
It should not be this way.
No child should miss school for want of a desk, and no field should sit empty for want of seed. That is a matter of justice, and it is within reach.
Gift baskets
One click. A whole basket of good.
We brought together gifts that work best side by side. Add a basket, then give it in someone’s name.
The Thanksgiving Table
Food that keeps giving long after the holiday meal.
Two Laying Hens, A Bag of Rice, Vegetable Seeds for a Family Garden, A Goat for a Family
Christmas for a Child
Everything a child needs to walk into class ready.
School Supplies for a Child, Shoes for a Child, Two Soccer Balls, Library Books
A Safe Start
Protection and care for a mother and her newborn.
New Mother and Baby Basket, A Treated Mosquito Net, Medicines and Vaccines
The Classroom
A desk, books, supplies and a way to get to school.
A School Desk, School Supplies for a Child, Library Books, A Bicycle for School
Her Own Income
A trade in her hands and a garden that feeds her family.
A Sewing Machine for a Young Woman, Vegetable Seeds for a Family Garden, Ten Feet of Garden Fencing
From One Child to Another
Small gifts children can choose and give themselves.
Two Soccer Balls, Shoes for a Child, A Treated Mosquito Net
Close to home
Bathe your own city in generosity.
Right here in Canada, neighbours are going without a meal, a safe bed, a winter coat or a first welcome. Newcomers are arriving in Lethbridge with little more than a suitcase. These gifts meet them where they are.
Or choose your own amount for a local program
A meal and a safe place
Food, safety and care for a neighbour going through a hard season.
Choose your amountCardston, AlbertaA food hamper for a family
Groceries for a family in Cardston, handed out twice a month.
Choose your amountLethbridge, AlbertaHelp a neighbour keep a home
Supportive housing and a steady welcome for people finding their feet.
Choose your amountLethbridge, AlbertaA safe place after school
A free home base for Lethbridge teens aged 11 to 18.
Choose your amountCanadaSomeone to listen
A chaplain who will sit with a person in crisis and talk honestly.
Choose your amountBrooks, AlbertaA mentor for a teen
Events and a caring mentor for young people in Brooks.
Choose your amountMore gifts for neighbours across Canada and the United States are on the way. Know a need in your community? Tell us.
The full catalogue
Choose your gift.
133 gifts, each tied to the work of a Bridges of Hope program, close to home and around the world. Tap any gift to see why it matters.
Build something lasting
Gifts that outlive all of us.
A well, a school, a clinic, a home. Families, churches, businesses and friends often give these together. Give in full, or talk with us about joining with others.
A bed for the new wing
A bed of her own in stage two
$100Tools for a village water committee
Local hands keeping the water flowing
$100
A vented stove for a family kitchen
Clean air in the kitchen for years
$500Repair a broken village well
Bring a silent well back to life
$500
A Home for a Mother and Her Children
A door that locks, a roof that holds
$3,000
A Home for Orphaned Children
A safe bed and someone who stays
$15,000
A Deep Well for a Village
Clean water, steps from home
$15,000
Build a School
Four walls where learning can happen
$25,000
Build a Health Clinic
Care close enough to reach in time
$40,000Dignity first
Our promise to the families we serve with.
Every gift in this catalogue is a tool that people use to build their own future. We tell their stories the way we would want ours told.
Local leaders lead.
Nurses, teachers, farmers and staff from the community run the programs. We walk beside them; we do not replace them.
Partners, not projects.
The people we serve are neighbours with names, skills and plans. Nobody on this page is a prop for our fundraising.
Tools, not handouts.
A hen lays for years, a trade lasts a lifetime and a well serves a village. The goal is an end to dependency.
Honest stories.
We share photos and stories with care and consent, and we report facts with their sources.
“A single straw of a broom can be broken easily, but the straws together are not easily broken.”
For every celebration
Make it your go-to gift list.
Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduations, a new baby, a life remembered, a church giving season. Create your own page in seconds and invite people to give in your name.
Your birthday or celebration
Ask friends and family to skip the presents and give a gift that changes a life.
- Type your name and choose the occasion below.
- Share your personal link by email, WhatsApp or Facebook.
- Your guests choose a gift and add your name in the order notes.
Churches and giving campaigns
Hold a Gift Catalogue Sunday or make this your Advent or Thanksgiving giving campaign.
- Create your church link below and put it in your bulletin, slides and newsletter.
- Print the free gift card for people to take home.
- Tell us your dates and we will help you prepare: [email protected]
A gift in your honour
With love, for you.
In your name, a family in Burkina Faso has fresh eggs on the table.
Bridges of Hope · Gift CatalogueThe card
The card is part of the gift.
Download our free printable card, write the name of the person you are honouring, and tell them what you gave. It is the one gift that will not end up in a drawer.
Your guide
We have walked with these communities for 24 years.
Bridges of Hope is a registered Canadian charity based in Lethbridge, Alberta. We do not send you somewhere else. Every gift in this catalogue goes to the work of a Bridges of Hope program, carried out with local leaders under a written agreement.
The plan
Three steps to a gift that matters.
Choose a gift.
Pick a single gift or a ready-made basket. Every gift has a clear purpose.
Give in their name.
Check out securely. Add the name you are honouring in the order notes.
Share the card.
Print the free card and tell them what you gave. Your official receipt follows by email for eligible gifts.
What is at stake
The choice we make this season.
This season you can be a shopper, or you can be the reason someone’s year turned around.
If we keep shopping as usual
- Another round of gifts that are forgotten by spring.
- A child still writes on the floor, and a field still waits for seed.
- We miss the joy of a gift that truly matters.
When you give from this catalogue
- The people you love are honoured in a way they will remember.
- A family gains a tool they can use to build their own future.
- Your family learns that generosity is part of every celebration.
From busy shopper to generous neighbour. From spectator to part of the story.
Other ways to give
Prefer to give another way?
Interac e-Transfer
Send to [email protected]. In the message, include the gift you chose, your full name and your mailing address for your receipt.
By cheque
Payable to Bridges of Hope, PO Box 81, Stn Main, Lethbridge, AB T1J 3Y3. Note the gift you chose on the memo line.
From the United States
US donors can give through our US partner page. Give from the US
About the catalogue: Each gift shows the kind of need a Bridges of Hope program meets and what your gift can provide. Gifts are pooled within that program area so they reach families when and where they are needed most.
Disclaimer: Bridges of Hope International Network of Development Agencies (BOHINDA) is a registered Canadian charity. Donors may indicate a preference for how their donation will be used; however, the final decision on the use of all funds rests with BOHINDA. In accordance with CRA guidelines, if BOHINDA is unable to use the donation as the donor prefers, the donation will not be returned, but will be applied to the organization’s charitable purposes where it is needed most.
Give a gift that keeps on giving.
This year, let every celebration leave something good behind.
Your gift basket
Every gift here goes to a Bridges of Hope program.
Why we do what we do
In Jesus’ name. For the glory of God.
“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me… Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”Matthew 25:35–36, 40 (NIV)
Six people Christ asks us to see. Six ways we answer.
Matthew 25 is our inspiration: we answer the call of Christ to care for the poor, the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the stranger and the prisoner, with compassion, love, justice and mercy, and we serve every person with dignity, whatever their faith. Every plate, well, classroom and loan is an act of worship. To God be the glory.