Page 2 - The Daily Builder - Day 09
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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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