Charity- animals for 3rd world countries?

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Looks like another great organization. It's great that your FIL is able to work with them.

Imp
 
I've said it before and i'll say it again..
You are SUCH a good person, my friend...
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I am not sending you a baby monkey. Geesh!

Imp- but if you want we can go on a safari and see one.
 
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I am not sending you a baby monkey. Geesh!

Imp- but if you want we can go on a safari and see one.

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh! You PROMISED me a baby monkey!!!!!!
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My radio station keeps playing an add for "Chickensandgoats.com"... with a lot of rooster crowing and goat blehing.

I had to sit in the car the first time I heard the add for a full few minutes waiting for the crowing and blehing to get to the part where they tell you what the add is about
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I don't know if that disqualifies them as contenders for "doing good" though
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PS - Reeed! Wouldn't you rather a baby Wallaby?
 
But are they actually doing good?

http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:Goat,_give_at_Christmas
Giving a farm animal is often a very poor way of helping a family in the developing world. Families often do not know how to care properly for the animals they receive and even if they do, they may not have the resources to look after them properly. For example, farm animals need fodder, large quantities of water, some sort of shelter, and veterinary care, any or all of which may be in short supply in poor communities. It would be better to put limited resources to work in improving arable farming, which is a much more efficient way of producing food from scarce land and water than meat production. Finally, given the environmental destruction animals such as goats can cause, their inappropriate donation can actually impoverish communities even further in the longer term.
http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/07/1/livestockgiftcharities1_07.html
"Farming animals is an inefficient, expensive and environmentally destructive way of producing food," Tyler continued. "Sceptical readers might accuse me of dressing up a concern about animal welfare as a concern for the world's poor. There are major animal welfare issues involved in sending animals to, for instance, the Horn of Africa, where earlier this year up to 80% of the cattle perished in a drought. Many of the remainder were washed away in the floods that followed. But this is not about cows taking precedence over people. Reality is that animal gift schemes are, in the words of the World Land Trust, 'environmentally unsound and economically disastrous.'"

"Oxfam, Christian Aid, Help the Aged, and others are wooing the ethical shopper with pictures of cute goats wearing Christmas hats and promises of helping the poor in developing countries," summarized Sean O'Neill of The Times of London, "but the World Land Trust and Animal Aid say that it is 'madness' to send goats, cows and chickens to areas where they will add to the problems of drought and desertification."

Said World Land Trust director John Burton, "The goat campaign may be a pleasing gift and a short-term fix for milk and meat for a few individuals, but in the long term the quality of life for these people will slowly be reduced with devastating effect."

Added Andrew Tyler, "All farmed animals require proper nourishment, large quantities of water, shelter from extremes, and veterinary care. Such resources are in critically short supply in much of Africa," the major recipient of help from the British livestock-donating charities.
 
Gee, I've never needed veterinary care for any of my chickens.

While I do think those posts do address some issues with desertification, they are not completely correct either.

Oxfam, Heifer International, and many others do real good. Another set of "charities" that do true good are those that are involved in microloans, often to women. Study after study has shown that business loans to women go to supporting families and educating children. These microloans can a make an overwhelming difference in the livelihood of families. Some of these loans are as low as a couple hundred dollars. An example of the sort of businesses started are processing white rice from brown rice. A few simple tools, and a huge price increase for the white rice. Another example is a village phone, a loan allowing someone to buy a cell phone, and operate it as a pay phone for an entire village.
 
These sound like animal welfare groups recruiting funds, maybe I am wrong. The advantage of this type of gift is similar to someone here in America for example people will make thier car payment before other payments if they value the luxury of a car, same goes for a cow in Africa it developes a pride of ownership among other things. And since when do animal welfare groups care about people? I know some who give thousands to animal groups and little to none to humanitarian groups. Let thier record show what the care about.
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I think it's a wonderful idea Imp.
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Since I have a soft spot in my heart for senior citizens and my mom always said charity begins at home, I've decided to adopt a few senior "angels" through the Salvation Army. JC Penney is making it easy to do, even though I live hours away from the JC Penney store (so I can't pick an angel off the tree in their store).

http://angel.jcpenney.com/angeltree/
 

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