THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FRIENDS & FAMILY
UNICEF Inspired Gifts are real, life-changing ethical gifts that help vulnerable children around the world.
These are so much more than virtual gifts. They deliver real hope to kids in need. From soccer balls and educational equipment, to real vaccines, water kits, first-aid kids, nutritious food and lots more practical supplies. The essentials for child survival and healthy development.
When you buy an Inspired Gift, you’ll also receive a beautiful digital card to print or send to your loved one, conveying the profound impact their gift will have on children’s lives! The gift of children’s health, growth, and futures. We hope you’ll join us.
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Pack of Footballs
$22 Buy nowYou would help children connect and heal through play with this two-pack of quality footballs. In tough times, the chance to run, laugh, and play with friends can bring joy and a sense of normalcy to a child’s life.
Give the gift of play.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Learn and Play Kit
$25 Buy nowThis can help kids, be kids, in even the most challenging circumstances. With skipping ropes, a schoolbag, pencils, exercise books, colouring pencils, modelling clay and a basketball – this is a gift that will brighten their world.
Give the gift of education and play.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Midwifery kit
$35 Buy nowWith this bundle, you could provide medicines, medical devices and equipment to help Mother's safely give birth in even the most remote or challenging circumstances. You'll be giving an average of 50 Mums and Babies the best chance for a healthy and happy life.
Give the gift of health.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Malaria kit
$40 Buy nowYou can help save a family's lives from this preventable disease with a mosquito net, a malaria response kit with 25 tests and packs of anti-malarial drugs. In the warm wet months, these kits can be real life-savers for children.
Give the gift of health.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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5 Thermal Blankets
$49 Buy nowYou would help protect children from the cold with this bundle of five thermal blankets. When families face harsh winter conditions, something as simple as staying warm can be life-changing for a small child.
Give the gift of warmth.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Therapeutic Food
$50 Buy nowWith this gift we can provide a month's worth of life-saving for a child suffering from severe acute malnutrition. This can often be enough to help bring a child back from life-threatening wasting.
Give the gift of nutrition.
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Polio Tests & Vaccines
$76 Buy nowYou would help protect 300 kids from this deadly disease in places like Gaza, with essential tests and vaccines. 90 percent vaccination coverage is needed to stop the outbreak and prevent the international spread of polio.
Give the gift of health.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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10,000 Water Purification Tablets
$78 Buy nowThis could help make 50,000 litres of safe drinking water for families struggling to find clean water. In emergency situations, access to clean water can mean the difference between life and death for children.
Give the gift of clean water.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Sustainability Pack
$82 Buy nowThis amazing kit could give children access to education in a crisis. This pack brings education, through school and play, right into a child's home. It contains items like pencils, books and a solar wind-up radio, so learning doesn't have to stop, even if electricity is scarce.
Give the gift of education.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Holiday Pack
$90 Buy nowA bundle like this can provide the essential learning and fun for children caught in conflict and emergencies. This includes modelling clay, soccer balls, a basketball, a solar wind-up radio, pencils and much more; all curated for young, energetic, and inquiring minds.
Give the gift of education and play.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Emergency Disaster Kit
$95 Buy nowIn crisis situations, an all-in-one in kit like this can help give kids and their families. It includes essential items like soap, menstrual pads, and other hygiene products, as well as warm blankets to keep children warm and cozy during the colder months.
Give the gift of health.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Measles Vaccines
$105 Buy nowThis could provide enough for 140 kids to be protected against this potentially deadly disease. You'll be helping to ensure that no child suffers from a preventable disease.
Give the gift of health.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Case of Formula
$155 Buy nowYou would help children recover from severe malnutrition with this case of therapeutic milk. In emergency settings, every serving can support a small child on their journey back to strength and stability.
Give the gift of growth.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution.
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Newborn Cot
$175 Buy nowYou could give the comfort, support and emergency care for a precious and vulnerable newborn. A healthy and happy baby will be off to the best start in life, thanks to you.
Give the gift of health.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Emergency Food Rations
$180 Buy nowThis would allow us to provide 432 nutritional support items to children cut off from food supplies for months on end. Our emergency food rations (fortified cereal bars) are designed to be air-dropped, so they can reach the most vulnerable areas of the world.
Give the gift of nutrition.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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School Science Kit
$267 Buy nowYou would give children the chance to question, invent, and dream with this hands-on School Science Kit. In tough times, access to learning tools like this can spark confidence and curiosity.
Give the gift of discovery.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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'School In A Box'
$335 Buy nowA chance to learn in the most challenging conditions. Containing everything an entire class needs – there's even a wind-up solar radio, while the aluminium lid of the box doubles as a blackboard - to ensure children continue to learn during times of crisis and conflict, or in the hardest to reach areas.
Give the gift of education.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Water Pump
$810 Buy nowYou would provide life-changing, long-term change with access to safe water for up to 200 people in a community. Truly transformative. Ready-access to clean water means children are healthy and therefore able to go to school and enjoy a fuller childhood.
Give the gift of clean water.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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High-Performance Tent
$4,350 Buy nowThis can purchase a spacious and adaptable tent that functions as a temporary school, health centre, or child-friendly space in emergencies. It provides essential shelter for children who have endured natural disasters, conflict, or displacement, offering a safe environment where they can access medical care, play, and rest.
Give the gift of shelter.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Essential Vaccine Bundle
$5,000 Buy nowThis bundle could allow us to provide 12,500 vaccines to protect lots of vulnerable children from tetanus, polio, measles, and other life-threatening diseases. You'll be helping to secure their rights to good health, laying the foundation for a joyful, productive childhood and a promising future.
Give the gift of health.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution. -
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Training Nutrition Staff
$10,000 Buy nowThis amazing gift would allow us to train and support 74 nutrition workers in rural Timor-Leste to identify children who have malnutrition so they can get lifesaving treatment early. Nutrition workers will also support parents, refer children to health services and lead cooking demonstrations to parents and caregivers focused on nutritious feeding.
Give the gift of health.
Your purchase includes a customisable commemorative card, which can be sent directly as an emailed E-Card or downloaded as a Print-at-Home PDF to mark your meaningful contribution.
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Browse the entire range for a surprise to suit every friend and family member, and choose how you’d like to change lives. With every Inspired Gift you purchase, you’re helping our teams to cross oceans, scale mountains and trek deserts to deliver to little ones in need.
Now that’s truly a special gift. Please, be generous so we can be fearless in our delivery for children.
HELP DELIVER SUPPLIES TO CHILDREN IN URGENT NEED
Dedicate an Inspired Gift to your loved one and help change the lives of vulnerable children around the world – in less than 48 hours.
Across more than 190 countries, we do whatever it takes to help kids survive, thrive and fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. UNICEF operates the world's largest humanitarian warehouses and stands as a leader in providing life-saving supplies to the world’s most at-risk children.
Whether it’s sending therapeutic food to the Horn of Africa to help fill bellies as the global food crisis escalates, providing education supplies in Ukraine or even supplying water purification tablets to those devastated by the Gaza Crisis – we’ll fearlessly deliver supplies no matter what.
FAQ
What are UNICEF Inspired Gifts?
Inspired Gifts are a collection of charity gifts essential for child survival and development. They provide crucial aid to children living in areas affected by poverty, conflict or natural disaster. When you order an Inspired Gift for family or friends, real supplies like vaccines and food are shipped from UNICEF’s massive warehouse in Copenhagen to children and families in need around the world.
With each purchase you can personalise a card for your nominated recipient that tells them about the incredible impact their Inspired Gift will have. You can choose to send the card in an email at a time of your choosing or receive it instantly as a print-at-home PDF.
Are Inspired Gifts real?
Yes, they are. All of the Inspired Gifts you see on our website are real, tangible items being distributed year-round in response to the needs of children around the world.
When will my e-card be delivered?
You can choose when you want the recipient to receive the e-card or send a print-at-home PDF card to yourself and it will be delivered immediately.
Will I get two cards if I order two Inspired Gifts?
Yes, you’ll receive a card for each gift! You can also specify a unique email (or PDF) for each card. Just select your first Inspired Gift, personalise the message, choose your card design, and specify delivery details. Once complete, go back to the catalogue, select your second Inspired Gift, and repeat the process for the second recipient.
Is there a guarantee that the gift I select is the gift that will be delivered to the field?
Inspired Gifts respond to the real and changing needs of children around the world, so the item you select will be substituted for another item when there is a greater need for it. This means we cannot guarantee that the gift you select is the one that will be delivered to the field. We hope that through your purchase you are trusting us to deliver the supplies that will have the most impact for children in urgent need.
Are Inspired Gifts from UNICEF Aotearoa considered charity gifts?
Inspired Gifts from UNICEF Aotearoa are indeed charity gifts. Each purchase supports vital programmes benefiting children globally, offering tangible items like vaccines or educational supplies. Choosing an Inspired Gift honours someone while making a significant charitable impact in their name.