Christine - click to buy fair trade crafts from Christine Click here for child sponsorship options for Joshua Rosie - click to buy fair trade crafts from Rosie Click here for child sponsorship options for Richard

The Meaningful ShopThe Meaningful Shop -A Fair Trade and Child Sponsorship Site

Welcome the Meaningful Shop - a 100% non-profit site dedicate to fair trade, effective child sponsorship, empowering community workers, and implementing large scale projects around the developing world!

We currently have craft groups and children to be sponsored in the Philippines and Uganda.

The Meaningful Shop is an initiative of Meaningful Volunteer.

Gift Cards

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Child Sponsorship

The Philippines
Click here for ways to sponsor April Boy April Boy
The Philippines - 12 years old

April Boy is in grade 4 and is a RYE school English student currently in level 1.  He enjoys studying Philippino language and hopes to one day become a mechanic.  His mother hopes he can go to university for mechanical studies when the time comes.

Click here to sponsor April Boy

Fair Trade Craft

Uganda
Click here to see the Bracelet Ugandan Bracelet
Crafted by: Deborah

All of these bracelets are made from recycled paper.

Each sheet of paper - be it a magazine, a poster, or even a cigarette paper - is cut into long triangular strips.  Each triangle is then rolled into a tight ball to make the shape of the bead.  The bead is then dipped into varnish to give its hardness.

Community Workers

The Philippines
Click here for ways to sponsor Jenniger Jenniger
Barangay Healthcare Volunteer

BHWs (Barangay (village) Healhcare Workers) are volunteer healthcare workers.   They receive no money from the government and work many hours for no finaincial reward.

Click here to sponsor Jenniger

Project Sponsorship

The Philippines
Click here to learn more about Gangrenous Debt Gangrenous Debt

Rosie and Gaudencio have been forced into large debt to do medical complications from Gaudencio's gangrene.  He has had most of one leg removed and three fingers.

Click here to learn more about this project

Support Volunteer Projects

Uganda
Click here for more info Volunteer Teaching in Uganda - RYE School Projector

Meaningful Volunteer is about to launch it's RYE School Initiative in Uganda.  Part of the program will be increasing the computer literacy of local Ugandans.  Currently, we have three netbook computers (kindly donated by Bob Bozsa) for the Ugandan classes.

Click here for more info

Volunteer Programs

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Click here to learn more about Female Human Rights Volunteering - Project Lifecycle
Female Human Rights Volunteering - Project Lifecycle Volunteer Program
   
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