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The gift of just one
cow can make an enormous difference to a desperately poor East
African family, enabling them to combat malnutrition with
protein-rich milk and earn an income from the sale of the
surplus milk.
Manure from cows and other livestock applied to the land can also double and even
treble milk yields – making a real difference to families
dependent on tiny plots of exhausted soil for their living.
Families can invest their increased income in a better future:
sending their children to school, or starting new enterprises,
such as poultry breeding.
Most of our livestock goes to women, because they are usually
the poorest people in their communities and because this is the
best way to ensure that help reaches the whole family. Our
initial gifts go on multiplying indefinitely, as each woman who
receives livestock also promises to hand on her animal's first female
offspring to another poor woman farmer, who will do the same in
her turn.
We now work in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Lesotho.
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I would like to be make contact with the Rotarian organising
collections for Send a Cow. I can be contacted at the
following postal address:
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