World Vision has launched its Alternative Gifts’ Christmas catalogue, encouraging the UK public to buy Alternative Gifts this Christmas and help make a life-changing difference to families and communities living with poverty around the world.

School dinners encourage children living in poor communities to go to school and learn to read and write. The lack of food in places such as East Africa, though has meant children have gone without education. Click here to vist the Oxfam Unwrapped Gift Collection

Goats fuelled the boom last year, but it is an appetite for school dinners that is creating a surge in ethical gift giving this Christmas, reports the Guardian newspaper.