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Christmas Wish List: The Secret Life of Sheep

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On Heifer International’s Christmas Wish List, we want you to look at Christmas gift-giving from a different point of view. From a sheep’s-eye-view, actually.

Christmas gift sheep

These guys are marvelous – they provide wool and manure for rural families, and even meat and milk in some cases. And the sheep will tell you all about it in this Heifer Christmas video shot in Ecuador.

Christmas list sheep

The sheep — they actually look like goats to me, but I’m assured that they are recently-shorn sheep — required a translator for the “baaaa”s, but Heifer took care of that for you. See what the sheep have to say, and then consider purchasing a sheep as part of your Christmas shopping.

Find Great Christmas Presents With Heifer International

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It’s the time of year when many of us are scrambling to find the right Christmas presents. (It’s eighteen days away, but who’s counting?)

You can make Christmas shopping more fun, though, with our new online experience, called “Heifer International’s Christmas Wish List.” It lets you and your family explore the joy and the meaning behind gifts of animals and other resources to families in need.

Christmas Presents from Heifer

The Wish List has videos, photos from the field, fun facts and an interactive storybook for kids. It’s a great reminder that the spirit of the season is one of brotherhood, hope and generosity. Giving a Heifer International animal as a Christmas present is a truly meaningful way to honor your loved ones, since every gift helps families in poverty and hunger by providing nutrition and income-generating products.Heifer International Christmas storybook

Heifer’s Christmas Wish List is your shortcut to gift ideas that have transformative benefits for the people who receive them. You can watch a delightful “sheep’s-eye-view” video to learn about the benefits of donating a sheep, or find a special Christmas recipe from the Philippines that reinforces the importance of nutrition. You can also see the impact of Heifer International’s work with women in India, where wives are getting help with housework from their husbands for the first time.

Around the Web: Holiday Shopping Opportunities And Tips

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Every Sunday we highlight some of the people who are funding our work creatively or helping us spread the word of our mission online. If you spot Heifer International while you’re surfing the web or know of a fun or creative fundraising effort, please share it with us here in the comments.

The Happy Simple Living blog has a series of posts offering tips on how to get all your Christmas duties finished by December 1. Your Best Holidays Ever – Week 5 and Seeking a More Meaningful Christmas, has plenty of ideas about how to celebrate in a more meaningful way. Listed first is giving to organizations like Heifer International, followed by a list of other very good ideas you should to check out.

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“Living Wright” from Tulsa World also gives tips on ways to reduce your stress now through the holidays, and also mentions Heifer International gifts as a way to do something as a family or individual that gives to others.

Thank you and best wishes to newlyweds Jennifer and Taylor, who donated to Heifer International on behalf of their wedding guests.

Patrick Rothfuss, longtime Heifer supporter and author, is gearing up for his yearly Worldbuilders fundraiser. If you want to get involved and help, check out his blog post An Open Invitation.

In the Rochester, New York, area on November 18? Stop by Greece Baptist Church for its fifth annual Alternative Gift Market with several charities represented, including Heifer.

And, a little further south in Georgia, check out the Johns Creek Christmas Gift and Mission Fair from November 30 to December 2 at Johns Creek United Methodist Church.

Around the Web: Former Uganda Orphan Returning to Help Others

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Ronnie Sseruyange

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Every Sunday we highlight some of the people who are funding our work creatively or helping us spread the word of our mission online. If you spot Heifer International while you’re surfing the web or know of a fun or creative fundraising effort, please share it with us here in the comments.

Check out this inspiring story that features some amazing people including Ronnie Sseruyange, a 26-year-old who used to be an orphaned street kid in Uganda. He is now completing a residency at our Learning Center at Overlook Farm, to learn ways to help the orphans back in Uganda become self-sufficient and break out of poverty.

Thanks to Slapinions for the blog post Can we Make a Difference? I’d like to think we can, which featured Heifer International and a new family goal to give a gift from Heifer this Christmas. A very worthwhile endeavor.

Family Project: Heifer International

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The Crum family has a great plan this year: Family Project: Heifer International. The entire family is working on crafts to sell with a goal of $150 buy a goat for a family in need.

Going to be in Houston December 2? Check out the Living Gift Market at St. John’s Presbyterian Church, where “the gift you buy for a friend or family member provides help to families in need.” Heifer International is one of several charities represented.

Garage Sale to raise funds

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A special education class at West Middle School in Muscatine, Iowa, is holding a garage sale on November 3, with the proceeds going toward an animal from Heifer International. Students have been busy sorting, washing, identifying and pricing the items, and have gone with their teachers into the community requesting permission from business owners and organization and agency directors to post fliers advertising the sale. They have even gotten local radio and TV stations to help promote the event. After the sale, they will  discuss how much money was raised and how it will be used.