send a cow
"Most of our livestock goes to women, because they are usually the poorest people in their communities and because this is the best way to ensure that help reaches the whole family. Our initial gifts go on multiplying indefinitely, as each woman who receives livestock promises to hand on her animal's first female offspring to another poor woman farmer, who will do the same in her turn. We also work particularly with disabled people, child-headed orphan families and families bringing up young orphaned relatives."
"My name is Florence Namukwaya and I am 19 years old. Our parents died of HIV/Aids: my mother died in 1989 when I was five and my father died two years later.....
Rita [the cow] has brought us respect in our town. She is pregnant by artificial insemination; if it is a female, the calf will eventually be given to help another family like ours where there are older children to help care for her. If it is a male we will raise it, then sell it. Other families with young children are given goats or poultry from the charity as they are a lot easier to manage.....
But there are still so many challenges: men pester girls and offer them food or soap in return for sex. It has happened to a number of other children but I am tough. Having a cow means I can look after the children myself and keep these men away."