Heifer was one of my mother's favorite charities. They operate worldwide on the principle of "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime." It is a wonderful organization that helps struggling people and villages wherever needed with, say, a gift of a heifer. The family raises the heifer, learns to make cheese from her milk, may use her manure for fertilizer or sell it to others to do so, and, when she has her first calf, that calf goes to another Heifer Project family. After that, the original family can keep further calves, sell them for profit, or whatever. But it's amazing to see what a difference one animal, and the training and education, can make for a family.

How nice you got to see them!