Charity Gifts for Teachers including school supplies. Image shows African children holding up school supplies.

Teacher Gift Ideas

Looking for teacher gift ideas? This holiday season honour your favourite teacher with charity gifts from as little as $15. Double your donation with selected matched gifts*. All gifts include a FREE ecard to send to your teacher.

*Selected gifts generously matched by the Sprott Foundation up to a maximum of $100,000.

Charity Gifts for Teachers

TEACHER GIFT IDEAS FROM JUST $15

Often mandatory yet unaffordable, a school uniform allows a child to enroll in school, boosts their confidence and gives them a sense of belonging.

For many parents, school supplies are unaffordable. Notebooks, textbooks, rulers, pens and pencils ensure a productive and fun school year for students.

Children need to play to learn! Give them toys and games that challenge their senses and motor skills, develop their problem solving abilities, and let them have FUN while they are learning!

School breakfasts and lunches feed hungry tummies and fuel learning each school day.

School and community gardens give students hands-on experience to grow, harvest and prepare food from seed to table. Your gift provides seeds, supplies and lessons to let children start plants in the classroom and transplant them to the local garden in the spring.

Latrine$125

A latrine improves student health and hygiene, and significantly reduces sanitation-related illness - plus, it helps girls attend and stay in school.

Good nutrition is crucial for children as they are developing. Your gift provides one year of nutritious food for a child at school in an international location.

Help girls learn about their rights and protect them from gender based violence by supporting a community club that focuses on breaking down gender barriers.

Re-fueling with a nutritious lunch is essential for busy children who are working hard to learn and break free from poverty.

Give a student all they need to start school on the right path to academic success: a uniform, school supplies and classroom essentials.

Stock a school library, start a school book club and open up the love of reading to a student. Your gift provides books for school libraries and reading corners, while also supporting local literacy programs.

Qualified, well-supported teachers deliver better educational outcomes. Invest in teacher training and give every child a chance at a quality education.

New Gifts

A COVID-19 Safety kit will help supply masks, soap, sanitation supplies and training to community members - the essentials for staying healthy and safe throughout the pandemic.

This gift will help a farming community have access to the water they need to keep their crops growing longer - all it takes is a water tank that is used for farm irrigation.

This gift delivers an urgently needed food box to the home of a family who is struggling because of COVID-19, providing them with essential food for their children.

Help girls learn about their rights and protect them from gender based violence by supporting a community club that focuses on breaking down gender barriers.

Always needed, but now more than ever - handwashing stations help to keep kids and communities safe and healthy.

Investing in a local entrepreneur to grow their business is a life-changing gift that will provide a stable income for their family.

Give a student all they need to start school on the right path to academic success: a uniform, school supplies and classroom essentials.

Help women earn an income from their handiwork to support their families by ensuring they have the supplies they need for their businesses.

Farming Gifts

Seeds$36

Livestock, animal care and training, plus garden supplies and tools set up a family with a farm that will give them food and income year round.

Your gift of tools for use on family farms and in community gardens gives people the ability to grow produce for extra income and better nutrition.

Livestock, animal care and training, plus garden supplies and tools set up a family with a farm that will give them food and income year round.

There’s food on the table all year long when farmers have the seeds, tools and knowledge to grow veggies in the dry season!

Goat$75

Fast to reproduce, hardy, and easy to care for, the gift of a goat gives a rural family a welcome form of nutrition as well as sustainable income.

Sheep$60

Sheep are a hardy source of protein and profits become essential assets that bring in sustainable income for families.

Bees$54

This gift has great buzz! With training and supplies, farmers can take advantage of this sweet deal to generate income. Bees are great for the environment, too!

Three chickens lay 1,000 eggs a year – a reliable source of food and income that families can count on.

Pig$50

Pigs are an easy-to-raise, quick-to-reproduce source of nutrition and income that can sustain families for years to come.

This gift will help a farming community have access to the water they need to keep their crops growing longer - all it takes is a water tank that is used for farm irrigation.

How it Works

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Buy it here. We'll source it there

The teachers' gift you purchase will be sourced locally, i.e. as close to the recipient as possible. This approach provides an extra boost to local economies while keeping transport costs to a minimum.

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Send a Free Card to Your Teacher

When you buy a charity gift for your teacher from our Best.Gift.Ever catalogue you will be able to select a FREE "Teacher" themed PDF or Ecard (pictured below) to send to your teacher. You can also select other card designs including holiday, gift-themed plus many more. You can also buy teachers' gifts without selecting a card.

Buy a charity gift for your teacher and receive this free teacher-themed card
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Pay & Instantly Receive a Tax Receipt

When you buy charity gifts for teachers you will immediately receive a charitable tax receipt in PDF format by email. You can pay for your charity gifts using a credit card (Visa, MasterCard or Amex) or via PayPal. Canadian Feed The Children is a registered Canadian charity.

How Charity Teachers' Gifts Change Lives

The cover page of the 2020/2021 Best Gift Ever Catalogue featuring Abiriya holding a goat

Meet Abiriya, the smile behind our new Best.Gift.Ever catalogue (pictured above). Despite Abiriya's parents being successful small-scale farmers in Uganda, they were struggling to pay for the school fees for their five children.

When Abiriya's parents received goats, they also received training on breeding and how to care for their health and wellbeing. Breeding and selling the goats dramatically improved their family’s income, allowing the children to go to school.

Abiriya and her mom outside with their goats
Goats Save the Day During the Pandemic

Despite Abiriya’s parents inability to sell their produce in the local market because of the pandemic they are managing quite well.

During the pandemic I was able to acquire more land to increase our farming so I can plant more food for our family to eat, and hopefully sell to make up the income. We got the extra money to buy land because I sold one of my goats. Abiriya's mom, Beatrice

Best.Gift.Ever gifts, like goats, can change the lives of children like Abiriya, and provide them with the tools they need to grow and thrive!

Why Canadian Feed The Children

Award-Winning

CFTC is honoured to be named a 2019 Top 10 Impact Charity by Charity Intelligence Canada. Charity Intelligence estimates that Top 10 Impact Charities deliver average returns of 7X for every dollar donated, compared with an average of 1-2 times.

Canadian Feed The Children also ranked as one of the top 10 international development charities for 2019 (#14 in the Top 100), rated ‘A’ by MoneySense magazine for program spending efficiency, fundraising costs, and governance. We were also named as a Financial Post Charity of the Year in 2016 and 2017.

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Accredited

We are an accredited member of Imagine Canada as well as a Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance Member.

Transparent

We are transparent, trustworthy, and accountable. You can read our publicly available financial statements in our annual report here.

Chart showing the breakdown of CFTC's spending over the last five years

On a Mission

Our mission is to unlock children’s potential through community-led action in Canada and around the world.

African children pose for a photo in their school uniforms

Frequently Asked Questions

Payment Options

You can purchase charity gifts for teachers online using MasterCard, Visa, American Express or PayPal. You can also buy a goat by calling 1-800-387-1221 between 9am – 5pm EST, Monday to Friday.

CONTACT US

901-2 Lansing Square
Toronto, ON M2J 4P8 Canada

1-800-387-1221 or 416-757-1220

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