Christmas 2026 Two small villages · the north of Thailand

Choose a child How it works
—days
—hours
—mins

until Christmas morning in the villages

The idea

One child. One small gift — if you would like to.

In two small villages in the mountains of northern Thailand there are children aged four to twelve for whom Christmas morning will otherwise look like any other morning. We’d like every one of them to open something that was chosen for them, by someone, on purpose.

1

Pick a child

A boy or a girl, and an age band — four to six, seven to nine, or ten to twelve. Pick one, or pick a few.

2

Buy a small gift

Something new, fun and small enough to fit in a shoebox — wrapped, with the tag on it. There are ideas below if you need a nudge, and a tag to print.

3

Get it to us

Let Nita know and we’ll sort out where to drop it or send it. lamp.charity carries every gift up the mountain and puts it into a child’s hands.

Please wrap it — then nobody sees what is inside until the child does. On the tag, put whether it is for a boy or a girl and the age, and your own name as well: that way we can tell you afterwards which child opened your gift.

The villages

Two villages, a long way up

They are small hill villages in the north of Thailand — the kind reached by a road that turns to dirt, where the school has one room and Christmas is celebrated in the little church with everyone there. lamp.charity has been visiting villages like these for years; the pictures are from past Christmases.

We’d love to arrive with a gift for every child, four to twelve — we’ll bring what we can, and whatever arrives is more than there would have been.

4 – 12years old — every child in that band, in both villages
Boys & girlsyou choose which, and roughly how old
Christmas, past years Handing out Christmas presents to children at a village school, Santa hats all round A priest handing out a Christmas parcel in the village church

Gift ideas

Who are you buying for?

Pick a child and we’ll suggest a few things that travel well and land well. Your choice also fills in the gift tag on the right.

New, and small enough for a shoebox — it has to go up a mountain in a bag.
No batteries needed if you can help it; no water toys, nothing fragile.
Something to play with beats something useful — they have teachers for useful.
Not sure? A budget of around the price of a coffee-shop lunch is plenty.
lamp.charityChristmas 2026
Northern Thailand
This gift is fora girl, aged 4 – 6with love from
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lamp.charity · [email protected]G · 4–6
Tell Nita I’m in

Dates

How the weeks fall

  • Now → end of November

    Choose a child, buy a gift, get it to us. The earlier the better — we count as they come in, so no child is missed.

  • Early December

    Everything is counted and packed, and the count is checked against the villages' lists.

  • The week before Christmas

    The gifts go north. Pictures come back — we’ll put them on this page so you can see the morning you helped make.

Ready to choose a child?

Write to Nita — say boy or girl and an age, and she’ll come straight back with where to bring or send the gift. No forms, no fuss.

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“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”Luke 2:11