Are you gearing up to fill someone’s Easter basket with candies and other treats? This Easter, consider putting eggs in someone else’s basket and “hatch hope” for a family in need.
Heifer’s infographic illustrates the multiplying power of something as simple as a flock of chicks.
Heifer International’s gifts – at Easter or any time – provide new hope and new life for families in need.
This Easter, create social change with Heifer International to help end hunger and poverty with these simple actions:
1. Switch your Facebook cover profile to support Heifer this Easter.
2. Switch your Twitter background to show how this Easter you will be putting an #AltGift in someone’s basket.
3. Switch your Google+ cover profile to show how Heifer is making a difference this Easter.
4. Tweet your support for Heifer by using the handle @Heifer and hashtag #AltGift.
5. Share our Easter video on Facebook and tag us by adding @Heifer International.
Every new voice adds to the joy and hope of the Easter season. Together, we can make a difference.
This Easter, Heifer is offering families a unique twist on the usual Easter basket goodies of chocolate and plastic eggs – a gift that will change lives. Think about a donation of a flock of chicks, a trio of bunnies or little lamb to love for a family in need — gifts that will bring joy and also lift a family out of poverty.
Take, for example, the story of Teju Thapa, a remarkable woman from a remote village in Nepal. She was the recipient of two nanny (female) goats and a billy (male) goat. In a very short time those three have multiplied into 13 healthy goats. In addition to selling the goat milk she uses the manure and turns it into organic fertilizer for her gardens and fruit trees.
Heifer livestock donations are a unique and heartfelt way to honor the Easter spirit of sharing and caring. Each animal, along with extensive training, is donated to a family in need, providing them with better nutrition and marketable products. As the animals grow and reproduce, the family’s livelihood improves and they become benefactors themselves when they fulfill the commitment to “Pass on the Gift” of their animal’s offspring to another family.
Have you checked out Heifer’s Christmas Wish List yet? If not, you’re really missing out.
On what, you ask?
Oh, just a hilarious video of some Ecuadorian sheep, an animated infographic explaining how agroecology works in the field, a recipe for Filippino bibingka and a slideshow of some of the cutest animals we’ve ever caught on camera.
Like this Peruvian alpaca…
Photo by Dave Anderson, courtesy of Heifer International.
Want to see more adorable Heifer animals? Click on the cute alpaca, then!
This time of year when so many of us are talking about trees — which one to buy, how does it smell, what happens if my dog eats the branches — we should all take a minute to say “thank you” to the life of a tree and the environmental protection they provide.
Photo by Geoff Oliver Bugbee, courtesy of Heifer International.
Trees are essential to life on Earth. Heifer recognizes their simple yet extraordinary virtues and gives many varieties of trees and saplings including acacia, fodder, forest and fruit to families in the communities where we work. And trees seedlings are Passed On to other families ensuring the sustainable cycle that’s key to Heifer’s development model.
Did you know?
Photo courtesy of Heifer International.
This post is part of our What to Give series, where we’re helping you choose the best Heifer gift for your loved ones. Read previous What to Give posts here, and subscribe to the What to Give series here.
Still don’t know what to give? Visit our full catalog page here.
It’s not too late to finish your holiday shopping online! This weekend only, when you give $200 worth of Heifer International’s heartwarming gifts on shop.heifer.org, you’ll get free three-day shipping for honor cards to your recipients. You’ll also get free expedited shipping for gift shop items reminding your loved ones of the donation made in their name.
Photo courtesy of Heifer International.
Free Shipping Day is planned for Dec. 17 nationwide this year, and participating outlets, including Heifer International, guarantee delivery by Christmas Eve. Heifer International animal gifts are an easy and meaningful way to round out your holiday shopping. The gift of a pig, chickens or a water buffalo will provide a struggling family with the means to lift themselves out of poverty, and at the Shop @Heifer you can pair that gift with an animal-shaped ornament, children’s book or Heifer tote.
Image courtesy of Heifer International.
When you give an animal gift, Heifer International will send you a beautiful honor card to present to your gift recipient, explaining the value of the gift that’s been donated in their honor. From December 14-17, Heifer is offering free expedited three-day shipping for merchandise and honor cards from Shop @Heifer with a minimum $200 purchase total including your donations. The free shipping bundle must be sent to a single address.
Get Free Shipping on Honor Cards. Image courtesy of Heifer International.
Heifer International works to end hunger and poverty in more than 40 countries around the world with gifts of livestock and training. The gift of a goat, for example, can provide nutritious milk and gives birth to twins each year. It’s truly the gift that keeps on giving, since each recipient family is required to Pass on the Gift of their new animal’s first offspring to another needy family.
So let Heifer make your holiday shopping easier. You select the gift; we’ll send it to you! To select your gift, go to http://shop.heifer.org.
Hanukkah begins this evening, and we at Heifer International are excited to have Ed Asner, who played gruff but lovable Lou Grant on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and Santa Claus in “Elf,” and Mark Feuerstein, from the hit series “Royal Pains,” as the stars of our first-ever Heifer at Hanukkah campaign. Heifer at Hanukkah promotes unique Hanukkah gifts for kids that educate them about the Jewish precepts of tzedakah (charity) and olam (repair the world).
We’ve made it through Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday is the time to do your holiday shopping in a way that really gives back.
A gift from Heifer International is meaningful for everyone involved. Your friends, family and colleagues alike will be honored to receive gifts from Heifer, whether they’re goat lovers or tree huggers. You’ll know that you’ve not only done something special for your recipient, but also for our global community. And the ultimate recipient – the Heifer project participant family – will reap the benefits of your gift for years to come. Best yet, that gift will keep on giving as our participants Pass on the Gift to another family in the community.
Give to Heifer today to support the real giving season’s opening day.
Photo by Geoff Bugbee, courtesy of Heifer International.
Does it surprise you that 79 percent of Americans polled would rather have a donation made in their name rather than a gift they know they’ll never use? That’s nearly 80 percent of your shopping list!
Want to figure out how much to spend?
Don’t get in your car to join the masses! Stay here online and get your Black Friday deals with Heifer’s online Gift Catalog.
From the comfort of your home, you can cross everyone off your shopping list with a gift from Heifer. My suggestion for where to start? Goats!
Goats are our most popular Gift Catalog item, and it’s easy to see why. They are funny and adorable. More importantly, these small animals can really help a farm family lift themselves out of hunger and poverty.
Smiling Goat wants you to shop Heifer for Black Friday deals! Photo courtesy of Heifer International.
Use our online calculator to see how your Black Friday savings can turn into gifts for good.
This post is part of our What to Give series, where we’re helping you choose the best Heifer gift for your loved ones. Read previous What to Give posts here, and subscribe to the What to Give series here.
Still don’t know what to give? Check out our entire online Gift Catalog.
Happy Thanksgiving! The Thanksgiving holiday has many meanings to people all over the country. What is Thanksgiving to your family? Do you spend time sharing what it is you each are thankful for?
Photo credit: muffintinmom, used under Creative Commons license.
As a Heifer International employee, I am grateful for you. For Heifer donors, supporters, volunteers and participants everywhere. I want to say Thank You for helping us do the important work of ending hunger, poverty and environmental degradation.
If you’re feeling extra generous on this day of thanks, I’d like to encourage you to consider making the gift of a Boost of Nutrition so that another family can be as fortunate as yours. While many of us are feasting, nearly a billion are going hungry. Today, you can do something to help.
This post is part of our What to Give series, where we’re helping you choose the best Heifer gift for your loved ones. Read previous What to Give posts here, and subscribe to the What to Give series here.
Still don’t know what to give? Check out our entire online Gift Catalog.
Tell us in the comments section: What is Thanksgiving to Your Family?