Season of Giving Day 19: Heifer International Pass On The Gift

By Summer,

Heifer International is a giving non-profit organization that was founded on the though, “children don’t need a cup, they need a cow.” Founder Dan West created Heifer for Relief and in 1944 was sending the first shipment of 17 heifers to Puerto Rico in order to provide families with livestock as well as training. The heifers would then supply milk and continuous support for the country as the heifer’s offspring was then to be passed on as a donation to another family. So the gift of food is never-ending.

Gifts can be as little or as large as you wish. Just check out the Heifer catalog:

· $10 share of one — goat or sheep or tree seedlings or pig or rabbits
· $20 flock of chicks or ducks or geese, or share of a llama
· $25 share of a water buffalo
· $30 honeybees or share of fish
· $48 share of a “Knitter’s Gift Basket”*
· $50 share of a heifer
· $60 “Flock of Hope” of chicks, ducks, and/or goslings
· $60 tree seedlings or trio of rabbits
· $85 share of a camel
· $90 share of a “Cheese of the World Basket”*
· $120 goat or sheep or pig
· $150 “Share the Joy” sharing the “Joy to the World Gift Basket”* or llama
· $250 water buffalo
· $300 three schools of fish
· $480 “Knitter’s Gift Basket”* of a llama, alpaca, sheep, and a angora rabbit
· $500 heifer
· $850 camel
· $990 “Cheeses of the World Gift Basket”* of a heifer, goat, sheep, and water buffalo
· $1,500 “Joy to the World Gift Basket”* of two sheep, four goats, one heifer, and two llamas
· $5,000 “Gift Ark” of two of each – cow, sheep, camels, oxen, water buffalo, pigs, beehives, goats, donkeys, llamas, and two trio of each — ducks, rabbits, guinea pigs, and two flocks of each – geese and chicks
· $10,000 “WiLD [Women in Livestock Development] Gift”
· $25,000 “Gift of Transformation”

If you’re follow the stars, Heifer International’s supporters include Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson, Diane Lane, Ed Asner, Patricia Heaton, Alton Brown, Mary-Louise Parker, Susan Sarandon, Joe Mantegna, and Eva Amurri. So “Pass On The Gift”.

All donations for catalog items or general monitory donations are tax-deductible.

About Summer:

Summer is very active in our Local MOMS Club chapter, she is the mother of two adorable active boys, and is always thinking of ways to help others. She is a friend, a wife, and always busy as all mommies are. She is very active on Facebook, addicted to Geocaching and very interested in organic and green living while cooking up a storm