The kids gave a goat to a family in Africa. If this inspires you, you can go to Compassion International, where they connect you to with a child in a developing world to help end poverty in the life of that child.
One mosquito net costs $10.00 and could help preventable, yet deadly diseases like malaria. So, on the 6th day, they decide to give several of the the mosquito nets, too. Micah said that this boy will be able to read better that way.
On the 7th day of Christmas, they made rice crispy Christmas wreath treats for the kids in their preschool co-op and gave them to all their friends. They packaged and tied each one up with string.
On the 8th day, they gave some toys to the Marine Corp's Toys for Tots. This was meaningful because they had to choose a toy that they themselves would want, so it was much harder to "give" it away. Micah chose a remote control robot transforming car - his favorite. Caelan chose Play Doh Fun Factory. He kept saying "mine", but he did end up giving it away.
They wrapped it up themselves and then we went to the local drop off, and they said the whole time, "We're giving our favorite toys to the poor." You can't know how proud I was of them.
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