A new friend of ours called our atten­tion to a char­ity based in the UK called Send A Cow. The char­ity helps with agri­cul­ture in Africa giv­ing small farm­ers more skills and even more livestock.

Send A Cow began in 1988 when a group of farm­ers sent female cows to poverty stricken fam­i­lies in Africa. The fam­i­lies agrees to send the first female calf to another fam­ily in need. The gift of 25 cows mul­ti­plied into many more.

As Send A Cow grew, they began to teach African farm­ers tech­niques to increase their yields. They also began to adapt send­ing live­stock to help­ing fam­i­lies with the water and feed needed to main­tain the cows. Send A Cow also began to give smaller live­stock such a goats.

Send A Cow has offices in four African coun­tries, their web­site has a page ded­i­cated to each coun­try to explain the work do in each. In Ethiopia, farm­ers there have to deal with soil ero­sion, as heavy rains there wash away the nutri­ent filled soil. In Rwanda, Send A Cow began to work with the return­ing refuges after the vio­lence in 1994. The work in Cameroon focuses on water preser­va­tion as the coun­try has an eight month dry sea­son every year.

Below is a movie that shows what effect the work of Send A Cow. Peter Reade started a Send A Cow pro­gram in Rwanda in 1998, he returned 10 years later to visit those same families.

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