Page 2 - The Daily Builder - Day 09

Sarah and her family, standing outside her goat pen. She is now able to send all her children to school, as well as
pay for much needed medical care for her adopted daughter (far right).

In 2015, the same year Sarah other farmers in her village how cover all her expenses.
Sarah started with three goats and some seedlings. When we met her this summer, just three years after she received her goats, she was already to do it, and passed on the gift —She’s currently raising 2000
received training and her gifts from heifer, she is happy, successful, and proud of what she’s accomplished for
herself, her village, and most importantly, her family. able to pass on the gift to another by giving them seeds. They are flowering acacia trees, which can
member of her village—her goats successful enough now that they be sold for decoration or used for
gave birth, she trained her neighbor can sell in bulk to larger buyers in firewood for the village, and are
Meet Sarah on how to care for them, and gave their area. tolerant to the climate change

—She used some of her income Malawi has been experiencing.
them away. She currently has four
goats. to buy more land, and hopes to Next year, she will pass on this gift
By Worldbuilders the song lyrics everyone is singing Sarah is thin, well-dressed, and The only other gift she received build a larger house soon. as well to other members of her
Video narration by are about Heifer International, and very serious looking. We find out from Heifer International were —She bought and planted village.
Kevin Hearne how their farming and their lives later she’s actually a little nervous, soya seeds in 2016. So with about 3000 tree seedlings, using a pit —She has planted drought-
have improved. Petronella, the a leftover of a shy nature that a year of training on her side, three planting technique that helps keep resistant cassava, as well as
Sarah received three goats in Country Director at Heifer Malawi, (mostly) disappeared during her goats, some seeds and a lot of hard moisture in the soil around the mulberry and guava trees, all of
2015, after completing her training says that singing is part of every Heifer training. work, here’s what Sarah did in just plants. She can sell each tree for which can provide food or income,
with Heifer International on how celebration for any reason, with “You see me like this,” she three years: 2000 Malawian Kwacha (about depending on how the crops fare.
to care for them, as well as training improvised lyrics usually sung says. “This is not how I was. I —She raised the soy, trained US$2.65). The trees currently Continued on page 4
for new farming techniques that to existing music like traditional have changed a lot. My life has
feature conservation agriculture— songs or hymns. improved quite a lot because of that can provide much-needed firewood to those in her
ways to make the most out of Surrounded by singing and this program.” Sarah’S treeS village, but she also has some fruit trees. She can eat
limited resources. In Malawi, celebration, we make our way What she doesn’t tell us, not Through training from Heifer, Sarah learned about the fruit or sell it, depending on how her other crops
water isn’t readily available all through the small village—not immediately anyway, is that the pit planting, which maximizes the amount of water perform.
year. When we pull into Sarah’s even a city block. Suddenly the Heifer program just gave her the retained by plants - very important in such a hot and Next year, she plans to Pass on the Gift of seedlings
village, everyone is there to greet sea of people parts, and we meet boost she needed. Everything else dry climate. Sarah has planted over 5,000 trees since and fruit tree seedlings, to give others in her
us, and they’re all singing. Sarah, who greets us outside her was her own hard work and smart receiving her first seedlings in 2016! Many are trees community a boost of prosperity.
Our translator explains to us that house. planning. Here’s what happened.

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