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| October 2, 2009 |
Holiday gifts can be meaningful
Choose a meaningful gift to give a loved one and help children and families around the world receive training and animal gifts that help them become self-reliant. Heifer provides both "no-interest living loans" in the form of livestock, as well as "small monetary" loans to help people start and expand businesses.Heifer's mission is:
To work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.
Heifer's strategy is:
To pass on the gift. As people share their animals' offspring with others, along with their knowledge, resources, and skills, an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe.
Heifer's History
This simple idea of giving families a source of food rather than short-term relief caught on and has continued for over 60 years. Today, millions of families in 128 countries have been given the gifts of self-reliance and hope.
(800) 422-0474
http://www.heifer.org/
A cow $500
Sheep or goat $120
Flock of geese or chicks $20
Honey bees $30.00
Help rape victims in Congo
http://www.healafrica.org/cms/I have visited the hospital in Goma where Heal Africa is funding fistulae surgery and providing support for rape victims as young as one year old. Victims also receive treatment for HIV/AIDS
HEAL Africa is connected to some of the major medical and educational centers as volunteer doctors and nurses, media specialists, come to Goma. Pediatricians from the University of California, San Francisco, and Harvard, have sent teams to teach for the past six years, to improve the quality of care for children of Goma and North Kivu. Doctors, pastors, lawyers and teachers from the US, UK, Australia and Europe have come to teach.
Community Focused. All of HEAL Africa's programs go out of the hospital grounds to community leaders, whether it's training widows to farm more efficiently or identifying children with disability who need surgical care, or foster families of HIV orphans who need help in order to provide care for their own families and those they've brought in.
In North Kivu province, HEAL Africa has received grants from UNICEF and other organizations to provide free health and psychosocial services to survivors of gender based violence. HEAL Africa has partnered with UNICEF since 2003, identifying and assisting 14,983 sexual violence survivors; providing medical care to more than 12,419 of them; repairing 1,625 fistulae and administering 3354 treatments for the prevention of the infection of HIV ('PEP kit' treatment).
HEAL Africa's hospital and community development work address the root causes of illness and poverty for the people of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The hospital and the 28 women's houses in Maniema and North Kivu have provided a safe place for many victims of the war.