With a small investment, families can raise chickens for eggs, meat, and manure to earn income to meet their basic needs. Your gift of a chicken helps a family access a consistent source of protein and start a small business in backyard chicken farming.

Your gift of a sow (female pig) provides a family with nutritious food, manure to fertilize their garden, and income. Families give one piglet from the first litter to help another farm family start a pig-breeding business. That way, the whole community can benefit!

These fun-loving animals produce nutritious milk to drink, and their droppings can be used as fertilizer to grow crops. This produces even more nutritious food to eat, and the opportunity to sell the milk for income to buy everyday essentials like soap, clothes, and medicine.

The herd contains one of each of these animals: a goat, a pig, piglet and a rabbit. They provide a farmer with free fertilizer to grow more food to eat, as well as milk, meat, and enough income to support their family all year!

There are five best buds in this great gift—four chickens and a goat. Give farm families an opportunity to overcome poor rains and poorer harvests by earning a steady income without having to leave home and loved ones to find work elsewhere.