NOVEMBER 2006

What do you really want for Christmas?

A recent Ipsos Reid survey conducted found 84% of Canadian respondents preferred gifts that would help someone else this Christmas rather than traditional gifts like socks or sweaters. The workplace followed the same trend: 75% of employees preferred a gift to be given in their name to help a needy child instead of receiving a gift certificate. Find a gift with meaning this Christmas...
Visit the MEDA store.
From the lens... of Carl Hiebert

Carl Hiebert focuses his camera on MEDA. Carl is an award winning photographer, author and motivational speaker who has traveled the world capturing meaningful MEDA moments. Click here to see this month's photo from Tanzania. Please visit Carl's website at http://www.giftofwings.ca/.

A Christmas I'll never forget...

Ed Epp reflects on backpacking through Europe as a student when he was barely 20. What sticks out 30 years later? A simple Christmas gift he received from a mere stranger... Read more

I have two dollars... I want to help God's world

We recently received a letter from a young girl who had two dollars to help someone. That same day she found out about our Tanzanian Mosquito Net project...The work of MEDA moves people of all ages. Read her letter