Donkey; £50

Shrek's donkey friend probably wouldn't be much use to your average farmer - but generally donkeys are great carriers and pullers of loads. This can help in ploughing or irrigation as well as in allowing farmers to carry more produce to market to sell. They work as passanger vehicles too - not just freight!

Donkeys are marked by their distinctive cross-shaped hair-ridges, lengendarily a relic reminder of Jesus's choice of an unridden colt as his steed upon which to enter Jerusalem on Palm Sunday while the people cried "Hosanna". Hosanna means 'God Save Us'.
Perhaps the gift of a donkey will be a part of God's answer to someone's prayer of "God, save us" this Christmas.

[ from Oxfam Unwrapped, www.oxfamunwrapped.com ]