Charity Birthday Gifts

Yes. The Canadian gifts contribute to our broader food security programs in Canada. With 1 in 4 First Nations children growing up in poverty, our focus in Canada is to support First Nations communities with community-led, culturally-sensitive school feeding and nutrition education. By purchasing a Canadian charity birthday gift you’ll be directly supporting our efforts here in Canada. Canadian gifts include Fresh Produce Boxes, School Meals, School Gardens and Community Kitchens.

Items that you choose are, first, identified by the communities as required, then are purchased locally to ensure the products (for example, fruit trees, seeds, livestock) are well-suited to the local environment. No items are EVER shipped from Canada to our international locations. Buying locally helps support the entire local procurement chain, keeping transportation costs to a minimum and generating ripple effects that benefit the local economy for years to come.

Every charity gift in our catalogue is a REAL item that is given to REAL people in REAL communities. For example, the goats we sell really exist, and they are really distributed in the communities in which CFTC works.

That said, while do our very best to predict how many charity gifts will be ordered from the catalogue each year and match that to the demand for each gift, however it’s not a perfect science. For example, there could be a downturn in goat popularity, and fruit trees could go through the roof. Although this happens in the small minority of cases, we must do the responsible thing and let people know that we might need to use the excess funds raised for something else. If we have to do that, we always use the funds for a similar type of product – livestock of a different sort, or other agricultural products, for example.

Yes, all charity gift purchases are tax receipted. When you order a charity gift online, you will receive an immediate charitable tax receipt in PDF format by email. When you order a gift by phone, you can choose to receive an electronic receipt or have one mailed to you, usually within two weeks. Canadian Feed The Children’s charitable registration number is 11883 0983 RR0001. See the Government of Canada’s policy statement for charitable tax receipts for more information about charity tax receipts.

No. When you purchase a charity gift it is considered a charitable donation to Canadian Feed The Children, so no taxes are charged.