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Gifts that Give Hope: Lancaster’s 17th Annual Gift Fair
In its 17th year of celebrating and encouraging charitable giving, Gifts That Give Hope Lancaster’s annual gift fair will be taking place on Sunday, December 1st, at the Farm and Home Center from 11am-4pm
While at the gift fair, shoppers will be able to engage with each of this year’s 37 nonprofit organizations to best choose who they’d like to support with gifts for loved ones on their holiday gift list; enjoy food and beverages from local eateries; and peruse fair trade goods, social enterprises, business for good, environmentally friendly & ethically sourced gifts in the marketplace. Marketplace vendors include Friendship heART Gallery, My Peruvian Treasures, Hope Inspire Love, Binding Love Scarves, Jessica Timblin Styling, Ilena and Her Curly Adventures, Food is Love Lancaster, Chainyana, Revolution Jewelry, Trade Faire, Crafted & Chosen Jewelry | Kind Human Foundation, Chestnut Ridge Honey & Beeswax Products, Hope Served, Read Rose Books, MollyauContraire, Bead for Life, and Hope Noted.
This year’s nonprofit participants include Aarons Acres, Ahadi Zetu Foundation, Anchor Lancaster, Arch Street Center Barnabas Aid, Benchmark, Blessings of Hope, CASA of Lancaster & Lebanon Counties, Clare House, COBYS Family Services, Conestoga Valley SEEDS, Connection Ubuntu, Domestic Violence Services of Lancaster County, Hempfield Foundation, Highland Child & Community Care, Hope Inspire Love, HOPE International, Kairos Ministries Guatemala, KPETS - Keystone Pet Enhanced Therapy Services, Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic, Lancaster County Feed My Starving Children,Lancaster Lebanon Habitat for Humanity, Least of These Ministries, Live Like Libby, Lone Oak Animal Assisted Therapeutic & Educational Services, Making Miracles Happen Inc dba The Period Project Harrisburg, Nurse Family Partnership, PA Vent Camp, Poiema Visual Arts, Sawa Africa, Sierra Club Pennsylvania-Lancaster Group, SWAN: Scaling Walls a Note at a Time, The Edible Classroom, The Potter’s House, Water Street Mission, Wildheart, Wittel Farm, World Bicycle Relief, Writeface.
In addition to the shopping opportunities, there will be a Human Rights Day Scavenger hunt taking place throughout the day for interested participants of all ages to take part in to learn about the respective nonprofits in the area who are working to address various articles of the Declaration. First recognized on December 10, 1948, the gift fair carries out this tradition to engage and inform our audience to understand how we all have a role to play in making the world a more just, equitable, fair and peaceful place for everyone. Upon completion of the scavenger hunt, participants can earn a FREE book!
Food is available for purchase throughout the day from some of Lancaster’s favorite food establishments (both food trucks and stands), Stroopies, Walk-O-Taco, pHresKoo Haitian Lemonade, Isabelle Cuisine: West African & Fusion Fare, Gourmet Julie’s Way, DutchCounty Concessions, Cafe 301, Traveling J’s, KelSas’ Sweetbox, Redemptive Sweets, Homage: Cuisines of the West African DIaspora, and Character Coffee Cart.
Gifts That Give Hope Lancaster is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote charitable, alternative giving through an annual gift fair that offers the opportunity to purchase holiday gifts in support of charitable causes and meaningful gift giving.
Contact: Jennifer Oehme Knepper MSN, RN, CCRN, GTGH Fair Coordinator
GTGH Lancaster Fair Coordinator 717-201-9157 lancastergiftfair@gmail.com
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