God's Global Barnyard
Animals provide families with food, funds, and fertilizer—all for a better future. Cows are especially valued. In some parts of Africa cows are a family’s security and bank account. Animal-related development projects are an important part of ELCA World Hunger’s comprehensive and life-saving efforts.
How can a goat change a life? Zipporah, a widowed mother of seven children, lives on a one-acre farm in Kenya. Hunger, made worse by drought, threatened her family. ELCA World Hunger and partner the Lutheran World Federation supports a program that provided Zipporah with a breeding goat and trained her to care for it. As one goat became many, Zipporah is able to provide for her family.
Goats are a helpful part of God’s global barnyard because they are hardy, multiply rapidly, are easy to care for, and produce nutritious milk. Goats can survive in drought-striken areas by eating drought-resistant shrubs and grass. Children can care for goats, which is especially helpful when families are dealing with a serious illness like HIV/AIDS.
Goats and other animals, part of God’s global barnyard, provide families with food, funds, and fertilizer, breaking the cycle of hunger and poverty. Your gifts to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal for God’s global barnyard go beyond livestock to provide training, access to safe water sources, help securing markets, and much more. Little chicks bring big hope. Gifts to the ELCA World Hunger—God’s global barnyard helped our long-time partner in Mexico, Amextra (Mexican Association for Rural and Urban Transformation), alleviate economic struggles. In the remote village of Nuevo, Jerusalém (New Jerusalem) Amextra provided 46 families with flocks of baby chicks.
For Juana and Miguel, who have four teenage boys, those little chicks made a big difference. In just a few months the chickens were laying eggs that helped satisfy the appetites of their growing boys. Juana and Miguel’s chicken business will provide stable nutrition and a sustainable income source.
How you can help:
| $500 Cow |
$250 Fish |
$50 Goat |
$30 Pig |
$25 Turkey |
$10 Chicks |
| buys a high -yielding cow |
builds and stocks a community fish farm |
provides a goat for a family |
buys a pig for a family to break the cycle of poverty |
adds a turkey to a family's yard |
provides 10 chicks to build an egg business |
NEW! Colorful gift-card inserts availableYou can now
print colorful inserts to tuck into any greeting card. There’s one to correspond with every ELCA Good Gifts category—including each God’s Global Barnyard animal! These gift card inserts help you tell the story of how ELCA Good Gifts make a difference. The inserts measure 3 ½″ by 4 ½″ – perfectly sized to tuck in without folding.
You can find printable inserts to match the ELCA Good Gifts you select by visiting
www.elca.org/giving and clicking on the
“Send A Tribute Card” icon at the bottom of the screen. Or,
click here to go directly to this page. Scroll down to find “Gift Card Inserts.” Then, just click and print!