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GOATS Global Study Guide

ACTIVITIES

Goat-O-Bomb Like to photobomb your friends? Try a -o-Bomb! Click here for a template and instructions to make your own goat mask. Then get out there and goat it up. Don’t forget to tag #GiveHeifer.

Why Goats? eople around the world love goats a female goat to another family P— for good reason. Goats do well in need. The serve as an on rocky, unproductive land, ongoing source of income that can on and brush other animals go toward school fees, medicine, can’t eat. They produce rich, nutritious clothing and home improvements. or Goats? Test — usually one gallon a day — that The gift of a goat also supplies Your Knowledge! can be made into and . goat , which families can It’s trickier than you think to is often prescribed for use to naturally fertilize their crops tell a sheep from a goat. Take our quiz to see for yourself! children who can’t digest cow milk. and gardens, increasing yields and Heifer International project conserving the environment. partners usually keep their goats in Before receiving their goat, 11-- roomy, zero-grazing pens, carrying old Belize’s family in Rwanda suffered fodder and water to them. That from poor health and chronic . way, the goats’ sharp won’t They fought to survive on barely damage fragile terrain, and they more than 50 cents per day. They don’t risk injury and disease. could never save to improve Since goats are hardy and their situation, and the little they adapt well to different climates, the scraped together was used that day. only shelter needed is protection “When we received our goat and Make Your Own ! from rain, wind and cold. began to milk, we started to get Cheese is a nutritious way Heifer participants balance their families’ With a goat, a family can expect better,” Belize’s father Francois said. diets and generate additional income. two kids a year — after passing on “That was the turning point for us.” Try our goat cheese recipe now!

VIEW ALL OF HEIFER INTERNATIONAL’S GLOBAL STUDY GUIDES AT HEIFER.ORG/SCHOOLS Building Roads Out of Poverty STORY The people of have mountains to climb that have nothing to do with Everest or Annapurna. The mounds of poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy, social isolation and gender inequality make this one of the world’s poorest countries. Yet, change is on the horizon. Your support helps Heifer organize, train and equip Nepali women NEPAL in 28 districts to dramatically increase Making Dreams Come True family income through the production Basmati Budmagar was unsure about and sale of goat products. Women in these her ability to raise goats until she joined the women’s group in her hometown districts receive goats, and fodder, of Pragatisil, Nepal. Basmati is now a group savings and loan funds, access to Community Animal Health Worker, and literacy and gender-equity training, and she shares the dream of becoming a commercial goat with her husband. milk collection and chilling centers.

Goat Facts You Need to Know VIDEOS If you follow our work you know that we LOVE goats. And can you blame us? Goats and baby goats, or “kids,” are adorable, hilarious AND they can help end hunger and poverty for struggling families around the world. Additionally, goats are fascinating creatures. Click here Heifer’s Amazing Animals: Goats to learn some fun facts about one of the Learn how goats help people overcome world’s cutest : the goat! hunger and poverty around the world.

Check out this THINK ABOUT IT: infographic How does owning to learn about goats help lift families goat milk and out of poverty? List compare it the reasons why a with milk from Heifer project might other animals! incorporate goats. Passing on the Gift® See that joy that accompanies a Passing on the Gift of goats ceremony in Nepal.

GOAT-SCAPING SHARE TAKE ACTION Ask a local goat farmer to work with ON HEIFER Set up a fundraising 1 your class on a “Goat-scaping” SOCIAL MEDIA page and organize a project, where the goats clean up fundraiser to donate poison ivy and pesky weeds. goats to change the lives of families in need. Here COLLECT DONATIONS are a few ideas to get you Keep track of your donations in a started. Share your stories 2 fun way – such as a poster showing on When Cows Fly. a goat’s trek up a mountain!

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BEES Global Study Guide

STORIES

MEXICO Bee Well A project in the Yucatan revives the art and traditions of stingless beekeeping to yield prized medicines and preserve precious cultural memory.

Why Bees? ees and other pollinators impact and vegetable yields. Additionally, B35 percent of the world’s food income from the sale of honey, wax ARMENIA production and can increase the and pollen can be put toward food, Teach a Man to Raise Bees yields of 87 of the top food crops clothing, medicine and education. …and Watch What Happens globally. By pollinating fruits, With only a small, one-acre coffee vegetables and nuts, these small , Guatemalan farmer Feliciana insects play a big role in increasing Martin could barely support her food security for farming families. daughter, Sandy. Heifer had the perfect Around the world, bee colonies solution. We provided Feliciana with are collapsing, and adult bees are bees, a mask, a smoker and a brush. disappearing and abandoning their The bees helped pollinate hives. Colony collapse is attributed to a Feliciana’s coffee , and her crop variety of factors, including pathogens, increased 10 percent. Feliciana also SOUTH loss of habitat and increased exposure collected 60 pounds of honey to sell Care for the Earth and Keep to pesticides. With Heifer’s help, small- for additional income. She hopes to the Honeybees Buzzing scale are emerging to protect double the number of hives she owns Being sustainable means finding this amazing and valuable . so that she can Pass on the Gift. Learn ways to use local resources more efficiently. It also means protecting Because bees pollinate crops, more about bees and how they help lift the natural habitats and diversity a healthy beehive can double fruit families out of hunger and poverty. of species that share our planet.

VIEW ALL OF HEIFER INTERNATIONAL’S GLOBAL STUDY GUIDES AT HEIFER.ORG/SCHOOLS Honey for Honduras LEARN MORE Honduras is ideal for beekeeping because bees thrive on and perpetuate its verdant landscape of blooming flowers and crops. The experts at Heifer provide thorough training in methods for keeping bees, the queens and safely boxing worker bees and drones, as well as harvesting honey, beeswax, pollen and other marketable byproducts that make beekeeping so viable. Your support What is it like to be a bee? gives beekeeping families the opportunity Check out this interactive to remain productive and self-sufficient. New York Times article.

4 Easy Ways to Save the Bees (And Save the World) Bees are important. In addition to being everyone’s favorite picnic guests, bees function as some of world's great pollinators. According to the U.S. Department of , bees pollinate 80 percent of the A Different Kind of crops that we eat, including broccoli, apples, Beekeeping Takes Flight A much larger and more diverse group asparagus, blueberries and coffee. Because called stingless bees also produce honey! of their importance to our food crops, it is becoming crucial to support these little beauties. Here are some easy ways to do it VIDEO (without building a hive in your backyard).

Learn more about how #DYK unBEElievable Did you know the bees are in this placement of a single bee infographic colony can potentially from World Ark double local fruit and Bees Hatch Before Your Eyes magazine. vegetable yields? Witness the eerily beautiful growth of larvae into bees in this mesmerizing time-lapse video from photographer Anand Varma.

POLLINATOR GARDENS SHARE TAKE ACTION Ask friends and family to sponsor ON HEIFER Set up a fundraising 1 you for planting pollinator gardens SOCIAL MEDIA page and organize a at their houses or at local schools. fundraiser to donate bees to change the lives BEE HOUSES of families in need. Here Construct bee houses or bee are a few ideas to get 2 hotels and sell them to friends you started. Share your and neighbors. Use the profits to stories on When Cows Fly. purchase honey bees through Heifer.

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CHICKENS Global Study Guide

STORIES

CHINA Chicks in Read about how Tang Fuming’s life has changed after receiving a loan from Heifer to buy chicks and to construct a coop.

Why Chickens? It was the largest tremor felt there ur decades of work have proven in 80 , and it affected tens of that a simple gift of chickens can Project Improves Family O thousands of our project participants. Income in Cambodia impact families living in poverty. Some lost their homes, others lost Learn how Ton Phat and her family Chickens are easy to raise, turned a gift of 20 chickens from their , some lost both. and they require very little space. Heifer into a diversified and productive Since the earthquake, Sharmila’s A single chicken lays an egg every farm. “By joining the project and women’s group has used the revolving being part of the self-help group, 24-26 hours, providing more than fund money from Heifer to rebuild goat my life has changed,” Ton said. 300 eggs or chicks per year. Adding sheds, restock livestock, start two small eggs to the family’s diet improves businesses and purchase materials their nutrition, as eggs serve as a to rebuild their destroyed homes. great source of and they’re Sharmila used revolving fund good for healthy brain function. money from Heifer to invest in 250 In addition to providing a food chickens. The profit from her chickens source, these eggs and poultry also is allowing her to fund the education can be sold at market, providing of her two children, ages 14 and 17. funds for medicine, clothing, She has also used the profits to begin SENEGAL school supplies and more. small-scale mushroom cultivation. Five Ways Raising Chickens Sharmila Shakya is a member For Sharmila, chickens are the Makes Life Better of the Deep Jyoti women’s group building blocks for rebuilding her life Heifer helped Salimata Drame, or Sali in Nepal. On April 25, 2015, a 7.8 for short, kick-start her own poultry after the earthquake. Learn more about magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. business, which has transformed chickens and how they can help. her family and community.

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Take the Chick Challenge Think your chicken knowledge is Teach Others About Chickens! anything to cluck about? Prove it! Now that you have learned how chickens change lives, why not share that with others? Click on the books above to purchase or download them VIDEOS from Heifer. Then, visit and read to elementary students in your town. See if a local civic organization will sponsor you for each class you visit.

Did You Know? Scientists believe that chickens are the closest living relative of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. We have living, breathing, feathered dinosaurs all around us.

Studies show that the nutrient choline, which is found in eggs, contributes to healthy brain function and reduces birth defects. How Chickens Change Lives One large chicken egg also contains selenium, B vitamins and Watch how receiving chickens has more than 6 grams of protein. changed the life of a family in Senegal.

While chickens are not capable of sustained flight, they can get off the ground when needed. The longest flight of a chicken on record is an incredible 13 seconds.

Chickens require little space, allowing families with small plots of land to maximize what they . They also help farm production by eating insects and weeds. Our Amazing Animals: Chickens Chickens can run up to 9 miles per hour. The average human jogs Learn how chickens help people overcome at about 6 miles per hour, so good luck catching a chicken. hunger and poverty around the world.

CHICKEN POOP BINGO TAKE ACTION SHARE ON OUR Create a large bingo board with SOCIAL MEDIA Set up a fundraising 1 a chicken on top. Ask players page and organize a for a small participation fee. fundraiser to donate chickens to change the FEATHERED CAPS lives of families in need. Post photos of your group Here are a few ideas to get 2 wearing funny hats. Staple a you started. Share your brightly colored feather to the stories on When Cows Fly. display for each dollar raised.

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WATER BUFFALO Global Study Guide

STORIES

PHILIPPINES Their Lucky Charm Galo Bula-ay Cullot and his family received a in 2008, which he said was an instrument of peace and lasting change and has helped them create better, more secure lives.

Why Water Buffalo? magine having to live not knowing areformidable Iwhere your family’s next meal is to be sure, standing 5 to 6.2 coming from. For many people, a feet tall at the shoulder. However, they CAMBODIA water buffalo can be thecatalyst are actually quite gentle. These gentle What to Give: Water Buffalo that brings them a better future. giants also provide families with milk Water buffalo in Heifer projects in Cambodia prove why they’re a Water buffalo have been rich in and protein that can perfect gift for farming families. domesticated for more than 5,000 transform malnourished children. years, providing , milk, hides Plus, the in buffalo milk make and power, particularly through it ideal for processing into cheese, plowing and transportation. which helps to build strong bones. Often too expensive for small- Water buffalo also provide scale farmers to purchase on their manure, which can be sold or used own, water buffalo serve as “living as for crops. Adult water tractors” for farming families in buffalo produce about 6 tons of many parts of Asia, as the sturdy manure a year. For families who draft animals help farmers plow fields have biogas digesters, that manure and carry heavy loads to market. A provides precious methane to power water buffalo can help families plant improved cookstoves and lamps. All I Want for up to four times more crops than Learn more about water buffalo is...a Water Buffalo? Five-year-old Vladut Baias’ family they would be able to plant by hand, and how they can help lift families received a water buffalo in 2012, a gift meaning a more bountiful harvest. out of hunger and poverty. that has boosted his social development.

VIEW ALL OF HEIFER INTERNATIONAL’S GLOBAL STUDY GUIDES AT HEIFER.ORG/SCHOOLS Build a Water Buffalo! LEARN MORE 1. Gather recycled products (such as paper, plastic, paint, wood, fabric, etc.) and construct a water buffalo mural.

2. As you’re assembling the buffalo, discuss how each body part is useful.

Head: After a water buffalo dies, the farmer can use the strongmaterial of its horns and bones to make useful objects.

Shoulders: A water buffalo has strongmuscles , allowing the farmer to plant four times as much rice as he could working alone, which will lead “Water Buffalo Days: to a more bountiful harvest. Growing Up in ” Read Huynh Quang Nhuong’s Stomach: A water buffalo’s stomach has four chambers, which means it can story of a boy growing up in the central highlands of Vietnam. digest food such as grass, saving the farmer money.

Back: Because the water buffalo is so valuable, the farmer is motivated to take good care of it and to give back by sharing her motivation with others.

Udders: The water buffalo producesmilk , an excellent source of protein. Five percent of the world’s milk supply comes from water buffalo.

Hind Legs: When a water buffalo can no longer work, he’s sent to the butcher to become meat. 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Water Buffalo Tail: The manure is good for fertilizing crops.

3. Name and discuss the 7 Ms of gifts that water buffalo provide to families in need: materials, muscle, money, motivation, milk, meat and manure. VIDEO

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 1. Water buffalo can produce 2 gallons of milk per day. True or False? 2. The small buffalo is a (a) caracal (b) caribou (c) . 3. Buffalo cannot swim. True or False? 4. Where does Heifer provide buffalo? (a) Asia (b) Africa (c)

5. Buffalo have two wide, flat on each to help them walk in mud. Power in Plowing Answers: 1) True 2) Carabao 3) False 4) Asia and Africa 5) Toes 5) Africa and Asia 4) False 3) Carabao 2) True 1) Answers: See the power of a water buffalo at work as it plows a rice terrace.

SWIM PARTY TAKE ACTION SHARE ON OUR Sponsor a swim party where SOCIAL MEDIA Set up a fundraising page 1 everyone washes, wades and and organize a fundraiser wallows like water buffalo. to donate water buffalo to change the lives of MAKE A PIZZA families in need. Here Water buffalo milk makes are a few ideas to get you 2 great . Find some started. Share your stories fresh mozzarella in your area on When Cows Fly. to make and sell pizzas.

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