Emergency
These alternative gifts target emergencies around the world with immediate help.
| Item | Cost | |
 | Disaster kit  Imagine losing your home and everything you worked so hard for in a devastating flood like the one that hit Bangladesh in 2004. A disaster survival kit contains essential items like food, matches, oil, blankets and cooking utensils. A gift like this can make a huge difference to a family living through an emergency. | £10.00 |
 | Help out in an emergency  It's gifts like this that ensure that Oxfam can respond to emergencies quickly and effectively, whenever and wherever they happen. You might not be there in body, but you will be helping to provide tents, taps, buckets and blankets and whatever is most needed to save lives. | £12.00 |
 | Emergency cook set  Enable a family to prepare their own food and share a meal together during times of crisis with this cook set. | £12.00 |
 | Emergency Shelter Having somewhere to shelter from the weather and maintain your privacy is a basic human need. This gift will provide plastic sheeting and tents for families in an emergency situation, keeping them warm and dry, and protecting their dignity. | £14.00 |
 | Emergency action fund Contribute to our emergency action fund, and help us reach families whose lives have been affected by war or natural disasters. Help us to supply food, medicine, shelter and any other items needed by families caught up in these events. | £15.00 |
 | Emergency hygiene kit Soap may seem a boring gift but in an emergency, it's one of the things people need most. In disaster situations, hygiene conditions deteriorate rapidly, leaving everyone vulnerable to disease. This basic kit of soap, tissues and sanitary products will help keep people healthy while living in temporary shelter. | £17.00 |
 | Provide shelter when disaster strikes This gift will allow Oxfam to respond to emergencies wherever and whenever they occur with tents, taps, buckets, blankets, or whatever is most needed. In an emergency they will be able to save lives and protect futures, fast. | £50.00 |
 | Emergency Shelter The Indian village of Chinnamedu in Tamil Nadu was devastated by the 2004 tsunami: 70 homes were washed away and six people lost their lives. To replace the village, Christian Aid partner Social Need, Human and Education Awareness (Sneha) constructed temporary houses made from thatched palm leaves, which were much cooler than the traditional corrugated variety. With a gift like this, you could help people rebuild their lives or prepare for future emergencies. | £200.00 |
The alternative gift links on this page connect to Oxfam Reg. charity No 202918, World Vision Registered Charity no. 285908, Save the Children charity No 213890 or Christian Aid, registered charity no 1105851