Today, the world’s population officially hits seven billion.  

For many of us, the decision to have children is made carefully and mutually. For others, including many of the families in Africa that we support, there is little, if any, choice. Cultural traditions, lack of education, limited access to family planning services, and the threat of infant mortality make for a very different reality. 

Send a Cow’s programmes aim to enable…

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Need ideas for how to get the kids out in the fresh air over the holidays? Want a fun activity with a serious message? We’ve got the answer in the bag!

We’re encouraging families in the UK to get growing veggies the African way by planting up a bag garden. This simple technique is helping thousands of poor farmers in Africa to produce food for their families all year round, even when land and water are…

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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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Members of the Girigisabo group in Rwanda have seen dramatic improvements in their lives since starting work with Send a Cow in 2008.

All members had previously suffered. As subsistence farmers growing small amounts of basic vegetables, many found it difficult to provide their families with enough food to eat, yet alone any surplus to sell to bring in a much needed income. Indeed, crop production had even started to fall as, over time, the soil lost its nutrients.

Once the…

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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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Congratulations to 15 groups in northern Uganda who are currently harvesting their first crop of peanuts since leaving displacement camps a few years ago. 

The 500 households are each harvesting around 10-12 bags (each of 50kg) of peanuts. That gives them two to replant, two to pass on to other families, and the remainder to sell.  

Now the groups are eagerly waiting for their first pineapple crop. Between them they are growing 40,000…

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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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With Mother’s Day on Sunday, it is time to reflect on those who are mothers before and beyond their time. In many cases in Africa, it is the women who have to lead the household. More often than not, it is the grandmothers who are left to look after their own children’s children, putting food on the table day to day, at a time of their life when they should be being looked after themselves.

Looking after very young children and babies is tough, even without the added…

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