This Christmas, St. Ambrose Campus Ministry wants to give the gift of livestock, and it is inviting everyone to help. The group is raising money for Heifer Project International, an organization that provides livestock and training to more than four million families in more than 40 countries around the world. Through its work, the non-profit group helps people feed themselves, earn income and care for the environment. For instance, giving a beehive and package of honeybees to a village in Cotopaxi, Ecuador, provides a family with better crops through cross-pollination, beeswax for candles and pollen for medicines, plus extra income from the sale of honey.
Givers can buy shares of livestock as well.
Other livestock include water buffalo, goats, pigs, sheep, llamas and chickens.