This is a brief account of some Inspired Gifts which UNICEF, with the valuable help of our supporters, dispatched to the field between January and December 2009:

	First Aid Kits	3,512
	Afghanistan, Burundi, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania
	Oral rehydration salts (cartons of 1,000 sachets)	26,434
	Afghanistan, Burkina-Faso, Chad, DR Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Guinea, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Somalia, Tanzania, Jamaica
	HIV Test Kits (kits of 100)	3,843
	Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Philippines, Tanzania, Vietnam, Yemen
	Mosquito Nets	350,735
	Chad, DR Congo, India, Madagascar, Myanmar, Pakistan, Tanzania
	Oral Polio Vaccines (vial of 20 doses)	861,431
	Burundi, Comoros, DR Congo, Guinea, Madagascar, Myanmar, Niger, Somalia, Yemen
	Measles Vaccines (vial of 10 doses)	800,710
	Burkina-Faso, Burundi, Chad, Comoros, DR Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lebanon, Madagascar, S.Tome, Tanzania, Algeria, Korea
	Vaccine Carriers	12,215
	Ethiopia, Tajikistan, Togo, Samoa
	Therapeutic Nut Spread (cartons of 150 sachets)	86,624
	Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, DR Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen
	Therapeutic Milk (per 2 sachets of 456g)	127,561
	Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, DR Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Mali, Mozambique, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen
	High-Energy Biscuits (per 20 packets of 400g)	10,530
	Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Tajikistan
	Pencils (per boxes of 10)	1,539,535
	Afghanistan, Cameroon, Eritrea, Niger, Montenegro
	Exercise Books (per boxes of 10)	681,620
	Afghanistan, Cameroon, Haiti, Niger
	Blankets	11,000
	OPT, Zambia
	Basic family water kit for 10 families	1,670
	Afghanistan, Nigeria, Philippines, Macedonia
	Motorbikes	242
	Burkina-Faso, Chad, DR Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Zambia

Testimony:

In rural areas, children, especially girls, are responsible for numerous chores, often at the expense of their education. Fajima does chores both before and after school. She attends Savelugu Junior Secondary School in Savelugu, the district capital, and rides more than an hour each way to and from school. Her bicycle, which she received a few years ago through a UNICEF-sponsored project, cuts her travel time in half.

“It takes more than two hours on foot. Without my bicycle, I could never make it to school on time.” - Fajima Yakubu, Student, 12 years old, Ghana

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* The range of gifts we supply is dictated by the needs of the communities and programmes that UNICEF supports. As such, for a few of our gifts we may occasionally subsitute that gift with a similar item i.e. crayons instead of pencils.