Heifer International, but not for you!

[ScottnLydia]

Let me start by saying that we were regular and heavy contributors to Heifer International and World Vision charities for many years because we believe in the concept of giving livestock as "a hand up, not a hand out." I'm sure many thousands of people in third world countries have benefitted from their noble work.

BUT, when my darling wife and I had the rug pulled out from under us a few years ago, and lost everything, we didn't know where to turn. Trying to live on a few hundred a month, and remembering that both charities did work in the U.S., I thought, maybe, we could qualify for some help to get started with some sheep! Chickens! Anything?

Long story short, if you need help from them, you can't contact them! They have a "Don't call us, we'll call you" policy for recipients!

Our friends and family bought and donated to us the livestock that we now have.
So to Paige and Jason, John and Kathy, Susan and Jerry, THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU!!!

To Heifer Int. and World Vision, gee, uh, ...I guess you forgot. there are poor here too!

~S

 

[MamaRoo]

Our friends and family bought and donated to us the livestock that we now have.
So to Paige and Jason, John and Kathy, Susan and Jerry, THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU!!!

Wait, but you had people that could help you. I thought HI was for people that had no where else to turn.

 

[ScottnLydia]

Actually, the people that helped us were barely making it themselves. Minimum wage jobs, retired couple on S.S. Would YOU have gone begging to them for help?

My point is that you cannot contact them except to donate.

~S

 

[redhen]

Yep..we help other countries but not our own Americans. Pretty screwed up, eh?

 

[MamaRoo]

My point is that you cannot contact them except to donate.

~S

http://heifer.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/heifer.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=151

It looks like they only work with groups. Did you contact your local church or other local assistance to see if they work with HI?

 

[ScottnLydia]

Thanks for the link. Without getting into too much detail, everyone we were working with did everything they could to help us, but no-one either knew of, or worked with any program that donated livestock. Believe me, I checked. I would rather have livestock than foodstamps any day!

On the link you provided it states "We do not accept applications from individuals." I just wish this was different, that's all.

Perhaps to do our part to make this a better world, we can look locally. Contact our local social service entity or food pantry and see if they know of anyone that could use livestock, then donate our spare chickens, lambs, kids, etc, directly. Maybe it's not tax deductable, but that's REAL giving! Something to think about.

~S