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This Holiday Season, Give a Gift that Does a World of Good

Date:10/27/2008

Seva Foundation's Gifts of Service(R) Turns Your Compassion into Life Changing Solutions

BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Come December, skip the long lines and steep price tags at the department stores and instead give someone a gift that matters --- like helping a blind child in Nepal see again, or training community health workers in a remote village in Guatemala.

This holiday season, shoppers can reconnect with the true meaning of the season by sending Gifts of Service(R) cards from Seva Foundation to their friends and loved ones.

For 30 years, Seva Foundation has celebrated compassion and embraced the connections we each share as global citizens. Working in some of the poorest communities around the world, Seva creates grassroots partnerships and programs that build sustainable solutions to poverty and disease.

"The holidays to me represent a time for giving --- not just in material form, but in compassion and service," said Mark Lancaster, Seva's Executive Director. "Our Gifts of Service program embodies this spirit and allows people to turn gift giving into a way to help those in need. Imagine being able to give someone their eyesight back! I can't think of a better holiday gift than that."

Here's how it works:

-- Browse the Gifts of Service catalog, available online at

http://www.seva.org/gifts, and select gifts to honor your friends, family, and

business associates. The gifts are actually services, such as bringing

cataract surgery to people in remote rural regions of Tibet, and all

gifts are tax deductible.

-- For each gift, Seva sends you a beautiful card that you can give to

someone special. Each card contains a description of what the gift will

achieve and space for a personal message from you. For last minute

shoppers, Seva also offers Gifts of Ser
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