Solar Powered LED Lighting Kit an Ethical Gift from Brightgreen

Christmas gifts that give twice
Brightgreen rounds up the best ethical gifts this festive season

Melbourne based LED lighting company Brightgreen now offers gift vouchers that support its Light Up Kenya charity initiative. After an overwhelming response to the project, whereby for every Australian property lit up with Brightgreen lights, a solar LED kit is installed in a property in Kenya, the group has expanded its offering to include the gift voucher just in time for Christmas.

To celebrate, the company rounds up its top five Christmas gifts that give twice:

The Brightgreen Light Up Kenya Project

Brightgreen offers a gift voucher for its Light Up Kenya initiative. For $90.00 AUD, customers can purchase a lasting and meaningful gift - a solar-powered LED lighting kit for a family in Kenya - under the name of a family member or loved one. Come Christmas morning, the company hopes that people across Australia will share the joy of knowing that their presents will enrich the lives of families living in need.

"Renewable and easy-to-maintain lighting can drastically improve the life quality of entire rural Kenyan communities; improving respiratory health, as well as financial and social development," says Brightgreen CEO David O'Driscoll.

"We want to encourage a conversation about the true spirit of giving this Christmas-lighting up a home in Kenya is gift that will keep giving for years to come."

More information about Light Up Kenya can be found via Brightgreen.com/au/lightupkenya.

The Shop for Change

The Shop For Change curates the best ethically sound jewellery, gifts, clothing and stationary from around the world, connecting shoppers with the artisans who make each item. Its online store includes jewellery crafted from recycled Cambodian brass bullets, fabric goods woven in rural Thailand and decorative paper goods handmade in Nepal.

Each product is listed alongside the social impact its purchase will have, including issues such as health and wellness services, gender equality support, access to education. The Shop for Change can be found via Theshopforchange.com

Taaluma Totes: Carry A Country

Founded by two global travelers who hail from Virginia (USA), Taaluma Totes manufactures a range of backpacks made from fabrics sourced from developing countries, then returns profit to those regions.

Beginning by supporting only three countries - Ghana, Indonesia, and Uganda-the group now works with producers from India, Guatemala, the Ivory Coast, Thailand, Mali, Rwanda, Kenya and Vietnam.

Taamala totes can be purchased online for $65.00 US via Carryacountry.com

Karma Currency

The Karma Currency Foundation provides tax-deductible gift vouchers that can be redeemed against a wide variety of charity gifts via its website. Its range of gifts include sponsoring education in the Philippines, empowering women in business, providing housing for the homeless and caring for neglected animals.

The vouchers can be purchased for as little as $2 and have raised over $3.6 million dollars for charity initiatives around the world. Find out more via Karmacurrency.com.au

Toms

Heroes of the one-for-one commerce movement - whereby one person in need is helped for every one person who purchases from a company - Toms donates one pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair of shoes it sells. Since its establishment in 2006, the company has given over 35 million pairs of shoes to those who need them most in over 60 countries around the world.

Its Christmas offerings include classic woven and knitted styles, leather boots and stocking fillers such as tote bags and travel mugs. Find out more via Toms.com