[Dialogue] Heifer Announces Tsunami Rebuilding Efforts

[Lynda Cock]

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From: Lynda Cock [mailto:llc860 at triad.rr.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:04 PM
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Subject: FW: Heifer Announces Tsunami Rebuilding Efforts


Dear Friends,  As part of our Christmas gifts to the grandchildren and
nieces and nephews,  we gave baby chicks in their honor to Indonesia
where we had worked some 25 years ago. The children seemed really
pleased with the colorful gift cards and the story of what the animals
would do to help others.  After the tsunami hit, I wrote to see if there
was also Heifer work in the Madras area so we could also contribute
there as well.   Heifer's reply is below.
 
On Epiphany, King's Day, as we rehearsed the story with the children and
talked about the gifts that we would bring to the babe in the manger, I
suggested that we might join the Read to Feed program to help send more
animals to places of need around the world.  Since they are such avid
readers, they were really excited that we would "pay" for the books they
read and immediately started thinking of the animals they would like to
sponsor.  
The website is really colorful and inviting.  I thought that some of you
other grandparents and parents might be interested.  www.readtofeed.org.
Children Changing the World.  
 
Happy New Year!  
 
Lynda Cock
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Heifer International [mailto:info at heifer.org] 
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 2:19 PM
To: Lynda Cock
Subject: Heifer Announces Tsunami Rebuilding Efforts



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Dear Lynda,

I wanted to share this important message with you regarding our work in
the areas affected by the tsunami: 



Heifer Announces Tsunami Rebuilding Effort 



As relief and aid organizations work to meet the immediate basic human
needs of tsunami victims in South and Southeast Asia, Heifer
International is preparing programs that will help victims rebuild their
lives over the long term. 



Heifer has committed $1 million for programs to provide training,
livestock and related help to victims on the coast of the Indonesian
island of Sumatra and elsewhere in the region to rebuild lives and farms
over the next few years. 



Heifer International's Asia field staff  is completing an initial
assessment of conditions in areas devastated by the tsunami and has
recommended that Heifer expand existing sustainable development programs
in Northern Sumatra, one of the areas hardest hit in the disaster. The
epicenter of the earthquake that spurred the tsunami was just off the
Sumatra's northwest coast. 



Heifer has helped small farmers on the Indonesian island for more than a
decade. The existing Heifer projects are inland and not directly
affected by the quake and its aftermath. Coastal communities, however,
are in dire need of resources. Heifer will reach out to those
communities and support families in their efforts to rebuild. 



Heifer Indonesia staffers and partner organizations already on the
ground will work together over the next few years to rebuild
agricultural production, increase family incomes and support housing,
education and public health efforts. 



Thank you for your support, 



Jo Luck, President and CEO 



Click here to contribute to the tsunami
<http://ga1.org/ct/T7qrFm61kq_k/> rebuilding efforts. 




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