World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008 - (Page 35)

Go HogWild with the Gift of Pigs Pigs from Heifer International supporters like you are helping families around the world boost their income and nutrition. And with 16 piglets a year, a single pig can quickly transform an entire community as offspring and knowledge are passed on from one family to another. Pigs require very little land and can thrive on scraps and garden by-products. Plus Heifer field teams teach project partners how to apply their pig’s manure to their field to boost crop yields. That is why your gift representing a Heifer pig and training in its care will provide a family with the opportunity to build a prosperous future. Gift of a PiG: $120 $10 Share of a PiG: Thanks to generous supporters like you, Rafael Corea of La Corona, Nicaragua, received the gift of pigs and training in their care. Leave a Big Impression with the Gift of a Water Buffalo Water Buffalo are among the most prized livestock for many farming families around the world. And here is how your gift representing a water buffalo and training in its care will help impact a family in need. Gift of a Water BUffaLo: $250 Share of a Water BUffaLo: $25 First, they provide pulling power. With a water buffalo, a one-acre field that takes two weeks to sow with a hoe can be plowed and planted in just two days. That’s why many small farming families are able to plant FOUR TIMES more with a water buffalo than by hand. Second, water buffalo give families an instant source of nutrition from their rich milk. And third, families can use water buffalo manure for an organic fertilizer that can help increase crop production even further. With so much extra draft power, Heifer water buffalo make farming a much easier task for these two boys in Daxing, China. All this adds up to more food and more income to go toward essentials like clothing, medicine and education—proving that sometimes the best gifts come in really BIG packages. Milk Menagerie: $1,000 Share of a Milk Menagerie: $100 gift of exceptional generosity and quite possibly, the gift of life itself. Every Milk Menagerie represents a heifer, two goats and a water buffalo, all bred for the specific climate into which we place them and all ready to produce gallons of rich, nutritious, life-giving milk. Imagine the wide eyes of a hungry child who witnesses that first stream A of warm milk spraying the bottom of a clean tin pail. The wonder, the anticipation! Now imagine her two years later, stronger and healthier, maybe going to school for the first time. Her family lifted from poverty, hopeful for the future. Who knew that from such a gift lives would change—permanently, profoundly and for the better? You did. If you are considering a special business gift, a generous donation in the names of clients and customers or if you have been blessed this year and you’d like to give back in an extraordinary way, a Milk Menagerie from Heifer International may be the best way to demonstrate your values— and your vision. Of course, each family receives training so the animals can live long and reproduce … passing on milk, and your kindness, to family after family. The milk of human kindness. Thanks to you, it just might be! WWW.HEIFER.ORG/WORLDARK 35 http://WWW.HEIFER.ORG/WORLDARK

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World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008 Contents Letters For the Record The Good Life Asked and Answered Finding Peace in Africa Sierra Leone on the Mend The Roma: A People Apart Mixed Media Heifer Bulletin Heifer Spirit Calendar First Person

World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008

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