Cristen Jacobsen met a seamstress in Uganda, a 19-year-old graduate of a school supported by Jacobsen’s Las Vegas-based charity Hope for Hearts. With a sewing machine and a patch of earth the school helped her acquire, she made enough to rent a one-room shack for herself and four younger siblings who’d been living in a slum. More than shelter or even food, the young woman said the most important thing was sending her siblings to school so they’d have the same chance to change their fates.

“This one year at our school impacted five lives that drastically,” Jacobsen says. “It’s like one drop of water in the bucket, but eventually that bucket is gonna be filled up.”

One drop might be the $4.30 per week it costs to house, feed and educate each of nearly 400 Ugandan kids under Hope for Hearts’ umbrella, or it might be the $15 you pay for a paper kamubulago necklace made by one of their teachers—100 percent of which benefits the students. “Think of it as gratitude economic exchange.”

Available at hope4hearts.org, or at Sin City Yoga, 1231 S. Main St., 702-900-8244.