World Vision Microloan Gift Card
Make your gift work harder this Christmas, with a World Vision Microloan Gift Card
A Christmas Gift Card from World Vision Microloans is a new way of gifting that makes your hard earned cash work hard.
Launched for Christmas 2011, it enables your family, friends or colleagues to choose a hard-working entrepreneur to invest in. Microloans are small loans, given to people living in poverty who run small businesses around the world.
68% of the recipients of the World Vision microloans are females running businesses across the textile and agricultural sectors.
The loan enables them to buy a sewing machine, a bike, agricultural supplies....whatever will put their families on the pathway to success which is why, unlike many other charity gifts, a Microloans Gift Card is not a handout, but a hand up.
Choosing to buy a World Vision Microloans Gift Card means your festive spirit and generosity will not get pushed towards the back of a drawer, but will be invested in budding entrepreneurs in the third world who will then be in a position to provide for themselves and their family.
Microloans empower women to overcome the viscous cycle of poverty; a massive 93.4% of loans are repaid in full to World Vision which is then recycled and reinvested to help someone else start a business. By giving a World Vision Microloans Gift Card, your money is constantly being used to alleviate poverty worldwide.
World Vision Microloan Gift Cards can be given in the form of either a printed Gift Card or an E-Card with a personalised note, and can be purchased from www.microloans.worldvision.org.uk
This is one gift for 2011 that can really make a difference and will go a long way.