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'Present Aid’ is part of Christian Aid, and is the body through which donations can be made to be translated into useful, if not essential, animals and products to help people in much poorer parts of the world get back on their feet by providing more and better food and to raise extra income for things like education.
We have looked through the catalogue and have chosen three types of livestock which we think will inspire people to want to sponsor. Here is what the catalogue says about them:
The Baby Buffalo:
Ducks.
A Brood of Chicks:
Your gifts, gift-aided if possible, will be collected and sent off with our suggestions of how many of each animal can be provided. ‘Present Aid’ then sends us cards relating to the animal, with useful information about how the animal will help the recipients. Unfortunately, there is no way that our gifts can be tracked, as can be done with our ‘Pump Aid’ donations.
By the way, if you’re ever short of ideas for a present for the person ‘who has everything’, why not give them sixteen ducks!
These chicks aren't just cute - they change lives, for generations to come. Provided by our partner Centre for the Research and Training of Peasant Farmers (CIPCA) in El Beni, one of the poorest regions of Bolivia, they offer families a chance to beat poverty. CIPCA provides 18 hens, 2 cockerels, and training in how to look after them. The chicks grow up into chickens that provide nutritious eggs, and breed more and more chicks, that grow up into more chickens, that lay more eggs... you get the idea! A brood of chicks is £31. You can sell them, eat their eggs and barter them at market. Since 1998, our partner Friends in Village Development Bangladesh has been helping people recover from devastating floods by giving them ducks. In the face of unprecedented climate change, duck farming gives people like Sunita Ranidash self-sufficiency, allowing them to free themselves from loans and work towards a more secure future. All in all, an example of a quacking good gift. 16 ducks cost just £24. It's not just cute. It's also a powerful weapon in the fight against poverty. £93 buys a baby buffalo to provide an Egyptian family with milk and cheese that can be sold for income – perhaps for many years to come. And it will ultimately breed more baby buffaloes to sell. Sarah Makram says, ‘The water buffalo has helped us a lot. It’s like the kitchen of our house. Now I have nutritious food in the house for my children.' A baby buffalo costs £93.
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