Helen Mirren in Oxfam Unwrapped: Give a decent gift
December 16, 2007
Award-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, funny man Rob Brydon and musician Will Young appear in a comical tongue-in-cheek and yet serious OxFam Unwrapped PSA appealing to the sensibilities of Christmas shoppers to give a decent gift this holiday season.
Instead of, say, another talking fish or dancing pig.
Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 organizations with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries working to end global poverty and injustice.
Two of the most popular gift donations are sheep and life-sustaining crop trees. Green gifts include a can of worms, fair trade honey, bicycle, sponsorship of a farmer, and a quinoa crop. For the truly hard to buy for on your Christmas gift list is the exotic purchase of a crocodile life.
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The donation of a gift goes to help those in third world countries move out of poverty and the recipient whose name you made the donation gets a personalized card letting them know of the help being provided through Oxfam.