25 Christmas gifts that give back for 2025

When you choose a Concern Gift for someone special, you’re doing more than sharing a thoughtful present. You’re joining a global movement that works with millions of people each year to transform their lives and escape the effects of poverty, conflict, and climate challenges.

Each of these below gifts represents a real item or service that Concern delivers through its life-changing programmes. And here’s the best part: it’s a gift that gives twice. Your kindness helps families overseas build brighter futures, and you get a beautiful gift card to share with your loved one, showing the incredible impact you’ve made together.

You’ll find all of these items and more on the Concern Gifts website — where you can also get a customised letter from Santa to go with your child’s own presents (or a full Santa fun pack). 

Our supercharged flour is a simple yet effective solution for child nutrition. It can be mixed to make a nutritious and easily-digestible porridge, perfect for young children and fortified with all of the essential vitamins and nutrients they need to grow. What's more, the flour itself can be produced locally, meaning the community can really benefit in the long run.

A Christmas classic with a twist: This simple gift of a warm blanket can bring comfort to a family facing poverty and displacement.

We all know the health benefits of this toast MVP, rich in antioxidants, vitamins, fibre, and fat. They’re also resilient and adaptable plants, and can even be grown using just household waste water. For €12, you can provide a family with eight avocado trees — enough to produce up to 2,400 avocados a year. 

Pigs are a great addition for any family farm. They also produce up to 12 piglets per litter, which can be sold at market to other farmers — creating an additional income source for families and developing local communities and small-holder farmers. 

An A+ gift for little stars, our school kit supplies children with all the essentials they need to thrive in school, including a bag, pens, pencils, and a notebook. It empowers children to not only attend school and complete their education, but also to dream of their future. 

Rabbits are fast-growing, fast-multiplying bundles of opportunity, and a single pair can become a thriving family producing some of the best fertiliser. For €16, you can donate two pairs, which can mean a steady income for families facing poverty — income that quickly covers essentials like food, clothing, and school fees. 

Eco-stoves are a win-win-win situation for everyone: They’re a safer and more energy-efficient alternative to using firewood or charcoal. They reduce deforestation rates and improve air quality. And they create jobs for people who make them.

Six chickens cost just €20, but they can produce a whopping 1,500 eggs in just one year. They’re among the most nutritious foods on earth, containing at least small traces of nearly every vitamin and mineral the human body needs, including calcium, iron, potassium, zinc, and Vitamins A, B2, B5, B12, and E. These hard-working birds don’t just lay eggs; they help to build futures for families to sell and trade their eggs within their communities. 

Duck eggs can be even larger than chicken eggs — up to twice the size. Plus, they’re champions at pest control, eating up to 200 locusts a day. Like chickens, they also quickly become a source of income as well as food and nutrition security for a family, and €24 supplies a quartet of quackers. 

Like eggs, bananas are another superfood. They’re packed with fibre, potassium, Vitamins B6 and C, and magnesium, and are soft enough for babies to eat. They also grow year-round, making them a reliable source of food between harvests. 

In communities without paved roads, bicycles are both a sustainable transport solution and a lifeline, connecting communities to vital facilities like schools and markets. (There are even bicycle ambulances used to bring people living in remote areas to nearby hospitals.) 

Time and again, potatoes have proven to be a wonder crop where we work, especially for farmers dealing with the challenges of climate change. Sweet potatoes have extra fibre and Vitamin A, and their rapid cycle means they can be harvested twice in one year. 

Every year, Concern works with thousands of families to provide training on home gardening as a way to both improve their food security and build sources of income. The gift of a home garden kit complements that training with the essential supplies, including a trowel, fertiliser, and seeds, to nurture their future. 

25 years ago, Concern was part of a groundbreaking pilot that changed the way malnutrition is treated in children. Part of that lasting legacy is Plumpy’Nut and other therapeutic peanut pastes that are packed with vitamins, nutrients, and calories to bring children back from the brink. A €30 gift can supply a full course of this therapeutic food to treat a child diagnosed with acute malnutrition. 

Complement a family’s home garden kit with a mini farmyard, which delivers six chickens and a piglet to a family — helping them to grow their farms with nutritious food and two reliable sources of income. 

For families with limited farmland, beekeeping offers a sweet solution: the bees produce honey that can be eaten and sold, and they support the wider environment through pollination. 

For sheer ubiquitousness and all-round functionality, there’s really nothing to compare to the goat. With a reputation for sturdiness and survival, they provide everything from milk to manure — making them truly the greatest of all time for millions of families we work with each year. 

For mums-to-be who’ve been displaced by conflict or natural disasters, giving birth safely is a high priority — and not guaranteed. This kit changes that, with vital hygiene items for health workers and essentials like pads and nappies for newborns. It helps ensure that both the birth and those first precious days are safe, clean, and full of hope. 

Cows can produce up to 5,000 litres of nutritious milk a year, providing more than enough vital nutrients for growing children, sustaining a family's wellbeing, and giving them extra milk to sell at market and create a vital source of income. 

Much like the safe delivery kit (above), family survival packs are a lifeline for families who have been forced to flee, providing them with the necessities they need to get back on their feet. These include cooking utensils and hygiene kits, as well as items specific to seasons, weather conditions, and more. 

Small in size, but mighty in impact: Mini wells sit at the heart of displacement camps and provide clean water for cooking and handwashing for residents. For many families living in conflict zones, these camps can often become long-term homes, so access to clean water goes a long way. 

This gift channels the sun’s powers to water crops efficiently, turning hours of manual labour into a quick and simple task. Solar pumps are a game-changer for farmers, transforming dry land into a powerful harvest with one of the most reliable natural resources. 

Can’t decide between a cow, a goat, or six chickens? Give them all to help a community. This dynamic trio forms the backbone of a prosperous farm and can change the lives of local families. 

If you’re looking to make an even larger impact this season, an investment of €1000 can help repair an entire classroom destroyed by conflict, turning it into a safe space where children can thrive with new desks, fresh chalkboards, and endless possibilities. 

You can also provide a gift that would be passed on from generation to generation with a permanent well serving as a source of safe, clean drinking water for an entire village. These not only give residents the water they need each day; they also help to prevent water-borne diseases from spreading and give people hours of their lives back that they might otherwise spend on travelling far distances to collect water.