Heifer International Project - Help End Hunger

Global Concerns - How you can help in 2007: (see the two posts below this one also)
The Heifer Project:In my writing about the two organizations this afternoon to help with global concerns, poverty, etc. I realized that I need to write about a very important one that does a lot toward fighting hunger in the world. Heifer International, also known as Heifer Project is also a wonderful organization that helps hungry families, not just by donating money or food, but by donating animals that help the families to become self sufficent. It helps people to feed themselves. There are 726 active projects in 57 countries. When you give toward the purchase or purchase an animal through the Heifer Project, you give a gift of hope and the knowledge that you are helping to feed the family, not just for one day or one month! When you log on to the Heifer site, you can read about what the organization does, and there is an online catalog that you can purchase animals to be given to families, it makes a good gift to give in someone's name, especially those that you don't know what to buy for. I am actually thinking about giving to the Heifer Projects in the names of those I usually buy for at Christmas, for Christmas 2007.

Our Sunday School supports Heifer Project and they raised enough money from Sept.through the beginning of December to buy two large animals (I forget which ones..) that will help families. We have a "Pig" sitting in our narthex, that we "feed" for the project, and periodically we are reminded that the pig needs to be fed. Our United Methodist Church and Hope UMC believe this is a very worthy project to raise money for. Please check it out: www.heifer.org