They play a pivotal role in the cultural life of indigenous communities on the high plains of Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Women weave their llamas' fleece into warm clothing to wear or sell. They load them up with goods for market and trek with them across rugged slopes at high altitudes. As they travel, llamas' padded feet don't damage the fragile terrain and their selective browsing doesn't destroy sparse vegetation. Honor your friends and family with a gift of llamas sent in their name to an indigenous Latin American family.
Llamas yield bountiful fleece that can be woven into wool clothing to wear or sell for income.
They provide fuel and fertilizer for crops and can easily carry loads over rugged slopes at high altitudes. Browsers with delicately padded feet, they are as easy on a fragile environment as they are on the eye. There is, for example, Heifer Project. It beats another gift basket. High in the Andes Mountains, the thin soil produces few crops.