The Uganda Animal project started at the Buikwe school in 2006 with a starting gift from special donors in Michigan. Animal Project gifts are long-term gifts that grow and multiply as the animals do. Will you help with a gift that will grow and multiply in the small fishing village of Kiyindi?

Families in the rural areas of Uganda live in poverty that is hard for those with "enough" to imagine. Meals are uncertain and many children only get the meals they are served at school because there is simply nothing to eat at home.

There are no jobs available and there is no money to move where there are jobs.

The land is dry, bereft, and crops don't grow.

AIDS is killing off both parents and children. Malaria is both a constant threat and a daily reality.

Families are stuck.

The Animal Project is a way to further impact sponsored children and their families in a sustainable way.

Here's how it works: a family undergoes a six-week training program and they prepare to be owners by planting grass and building a small shelter. The animal is inoculated and dewormed to make sure it will stay healthy.

When the family receives the animal, for example a cow, they use the milk to feed the family and the manure to improve their crops. If there is more milk than the family can use, they sell it for income to provide for their other needs. The first of the animal offspring is given back to the Animal Project to help another family. Further offspring belongs to the family to share or sell.

The Animal Project at Buikwe was so successful at providing hope to families that International Needs is expanding the project to help families at the Kiyindi school with a first sustainable step out of poverty.

There families are willing to work hard, and the Animal Project is a way that International Needs can provide them with a hand up rather than a hand-out.

We need your help to reach Kiyindi families with the hope that a cow, pig, or children can bring. Will you help us?

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