Alternative Gifts

It's in the global marketplace, where international neighbors meet each other seeking a better lifestyle for themselves and others. Some come to the market to purchase luxury goods, some only to purchase the food they need for the day, and others are too poor to even enter the market. For women and girls in the Third World, shopping means walking to the neighborhood market and sel-ling a little produce grown in their backyard. Then, shopping becomes bartering, haggling, and making the hard decisions about what is available to feed a family for the least, but still supply the most in satisfying their genuine hunger.