*Shop AMANI products for beautiful handmade gifts for mothers (and grandmothers!): jewelry, totes, handbags, kitchen & home products, clothing & candles. Amani is a fair trade sewing & training program for marginalized women in Kenya and Uganda. Cash & charge cards accepted. More information on this wonderful organization headquartered in Chattanooga, TN can be found on their website amaniafrica.org.

*Support “BUCKETS OF LOVE” to help provide buckets of cleaning supplies for mothers graduating from the Drueding Center transitional housing into permanent homes of their own in Philadelphia. Place a donation of cash or check in an empty bucket. A gift of $25 will fill one bucket. Contributions of any size are appreciated. The goal is 10 buckets. Please make checks out to Trinity Presbyterian Church with “Buckets of Love” on the memo line. Mission committee members will purchase the supplies. 

*Pick up a PRESBYTERIAN GIVING CATALOG that offers gift ideas, chickens, a piglet, water filters for example, to give in honor or memory of a mother or grandmother while improving the lives of people in need. Order forms are in the catalog for your use. Proceeds help to support mission projects of the Presbyterian Church (USA). 

Mark your calendar and have some fun shopping while gifting mothers on Mother’s Day May 14th . The receivers of your gifts will be grateful.