Happy Valentine’s Day – If you need a last-minute gift idea, we have a few for you to choose from and you can do a little good along the way too.
South Africa (14 February 2022) – Happy Valentine’s Day to all you wonderful people! We love sharing love and want to help you make a special person feel extra loved today.
There are so many organisations out there in need of support, and this Valentine’s Day, we have listed a few that offer some delightful options for love day.
People often complain that Valentine’s Day is a commercial day dedicated to expensive roses, gifts and crowded restaurants. But you can make the day special by helping others while celebrating love.
Here are some ideas of gifts that you can access instantly.
Adopt a Penguin Couple
Adopt and name an African penguin undergoing rehabilitation, and you’ll get to choose a second penguin to name at no extra cost until the 28th of February 2022. Donations received from penguin adoptions help SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds) with purchasing fish, covering medication costs and contributing to the overall rehabilitation to get the birds ready for release back to the wild where they belong.
You can adopt your penguins from the Sanccob gallery here.
Say “I Love You with Fynbos”
Greenpop specialises in planting trees on behalf of loved ones as gifts. The organisation is working on reforestation in the Western Cape and have adopted several projects that work around this. They help install food gardens, trees and now, Fynbos too.
For every donation, Greenpop can plant, maintain and monitor a tree in one of its forest restoration projects across Sub-Saharan Africa.
In addition to putting trees in the ground, the organisation reduces threats to restored areas by providing locally relevant support services, including alien clearing, wood lot development, and alternative livelihoods training to ensure the sustainable management of our forests.
You can find your Fynbos gift here.
Donate a Meal to an Animal Shelter
While dogs may not get a big bowl of spaghetti today, they very well can have a lovely meal. Lady and the Tramp is one of the sweetest pet-related love stories out there. To honour the love that our pets give us, you can donate a meal, a bag of food or more to a local animal shelter.
When writing in your Valentine’s card, you can share that you donated to an animal on their behalf. You can find a shelter by using our charity list here.
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