Heifer International-- Teaching The Man To Fish

Previously published April 11, 2007

Heifer International has what is probably the best program to end hunger and poverty the world has ever known. Sure, if one is in need of fish they give them fish but they also teach them how to fish-- in a manner of speaking.

Let's say a rural mother has a starving baby in need of milk. Sure, you give her milk, but Heifer International also gives here a dairy cow or a goat so there's fresh milk all the time.

Under the HI plan it would only require 13 billion dollars a year to end world hunger. Didn't the US spend somewhere around 13 billion blowing up Iraq in the last 30 days, give or take a little?

HI is involved in over 600 projects in 51 countries world-wide teaching people how to provide for themselves and giving them the tools they need to do so. From the Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas, volunteers learn what it takes to teach people how to fend for themselves. Kids need warm winter clothes? Some sheep will provide the wool and HI volunteers will teach people how to spin it.

Of course, if farm life isn't for you you can always browse the HI catalog and buy a cow, pig, goat, ducks, chickens, eggs, rabbits, sheep, and more. Rabbits start at $10.oo a share, honeybees are $30.oo a hive, a flock of geese for $20.oo, a healthy milk cow for $500.oo.