Day 8: Heifer International

Day 8 (eight maids milking) is an easy choice. Heifer International is well known for its great work with communities to help end hunger and poverty in an environmentally sustainable way. Heifer is best known for its program that allows donors to buy cattle, sheep, rabbits, honeybees, pigs, llamas, water buffalo, heifers, chicks, ducks, goats, geese, other regionally appropriate livestock, as well as tree seedlings. But Heifer also works to with communities to fashion and sustain projects worldwide that help ensure that communities and families can support themselves in the long term. Heifer has been in existence for 65 years and has served families in 128 countries.