buy an animal for someone from Heifer International

For Christmas I chose to buy gift for my family, friends, and myself, but I also wanted to donate to 4 of my favorite charities, Heifer included.

I choose a share of a llama. I love llamas! They’re just so cute and so helpful to humans.

All photos from heifer.org

I can’t believe I didn’t write about this the first time around! Oh well, I’‘ll try to remember the details.

My senior year of high school instead of giving my teachers Borders gift cards, I bought trios of bee colonies and rabbits on behalf of my teachers. Heifer has a great system that lets you buy animals for a little as $20 and then print out little cards that say ‘someone has bought an animal on your behalf,’ which is what I did.

It felt wonderful knowing that I was giving back in a sustainable way.

All photos from heifer.org