Welcome to our new-look website! After six months’ hard work, we’ve completely revamped our site for you. It’s packed with even more facts, figures, stories, blogs and pictures to help bring the life-transforming work we are doing in Africa closer to you. Have a browse through and let us know what you think communications@sendacow.org.uk.

We’ve also unveiled a fantastic new gift shop in time for…

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Tomorrow, 1 December, it’s World AIDS Day. For many of the families we work with in Africa, the daily challenges of food security are compounded by the ever present threat of AIDS. In Lesotho, Western Kenya and Rwanda in particular, adults who would normally be working, bringing up children and caring for the elderly are too ill to carry on.

It’s a simple fact, but for anti –retroviral medication to work, people need to be well nourished. Our agricultural…

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Hi! I’m Jen, I’m the Direct Marketing and Web Manager, and one of my most important projects of the year is creating our catalogue of virtual gifts for Christmas.

Creating the list of gifts for this year’s catalogue was a huge task. It had been a few years since we had really reviewed the type of gifts that we offer, and people had kept telling me how important the training is – even more important than the livestock. 

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With schools breaking up for Easter, are you stuck for ideas of something fun and cheap to do that will keep your children occupied for hours? Why not plant up a Bag Garden with seeds of Hope, Health and Harmony and get them growing veggies the African way. Just visit our shop to buy.

For the impoverished families that Send a Cow works with, Bag Gardens are literally a life changing way to grow as many vegetables as…

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Cassava is one of the principle sources of calories in Africa, but supplies of this vital foodstuff are in very real danger following the widespread devastation caused by brown streak disease.

The crop, which is eaten by over 800 million people across the world, is critical to feeding poor families in Africa as it is often the only source of food they have available. It is widely…

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Send a Cow has been awarded a $200,000 (£133,444) grant by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for a project to improve the lives of over 4,600 poor people in rural Ethiopia. Grants of this size are rarely awarded to NGOs by IFAD, and Send a Cow is delighted that its vital work has been recognised in this way.

The Gamo Goffa Highlands, where the money will be used, has some of the worst conditions in the country; malnutrition, high population pressure,…

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Send a Cow has celebrated 10 years of successful partnership working with Heifer International in Kenya.

In that decade, Send a Cow’s projects, based in Western Kenya, have helped over 2,000 households – which is more than 14,000 people!

The celebrations were held in Bumala, with over 2,000 people attending to join in the festivities. Groups of women danced and entertained the guests which…

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Today, all of the Send a Cow staff in the UK have gathered around the Christmas tree, sung carols, shared moving stories of successes and joys from the past year and read out heartfelt and inspiring messages of hope and blessing written by our supporters. See our blog on the event.

Our resident vicar, Reverend Richard Wilson who led the service commented “Christmas is a time of celebration and giving, and supporters’ gifts to families and children…

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Today Send a Cow celebrates World Earth Day, joining the international movement to ensure a healthy and sustainable planet for us all.

Among other events around the world, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day will culminate in an organised rally in Washington D.C. to protest against the failure of governments to agree on a comprehensive climate bill – something that we are hoping will change at the upcoming climate summits this year.

The farmers we work with feel the…

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We join together today for World Water Day to recognise the importance of this essential resource and remember how many people are forced to go without.

The United Nations estimates that 1.1 billion people worldwide rely on unsafe drinking-water sources. Poor water conditions and limited access cause untold problems for an African family: disease; malnutrition; unsanitary conditions; and poor crop growth to name just a few.…

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