Holy Cow and how you can help

A few days ago I reead an article about a venture called Holy Cow. A teacher in the U.S. asked his students to bring donations of money to help purchase a cow- no donation was too small. The cow would be a female who was going to give birth to another female cow. The cow would be sent to a family in an impoverished country for them to use for milk to drink and to make cheese and butter with. These items can be eaten by the family and also sold to improve the families income. When the cow has it's calf it in turn will be purchased to help another family. If they can not raise a cow they will instead be given a dozen chickens. This is a great program and got me thinking. There are so many poor people right here in America that could benefit from this program- but many of them would not live in an area where they could raise a cow. Many of them are forced to frequent food pantries for food. Food pantry are a good thing except they rarely give out dairy items. Many times they give the recipents food boxes that contain macaroni and cheese mixes or boxes of pudding mix. That is all well and good but if the people recieving the food do not have milk or butter or the money to by these items. What good is the macaroni and cheese or the pudding mix? or a cake mix with out eggs? Eating dry macaroni would not be such a good thing. When doing your weekly shopping why not pick up an extra gallon of milk, a dozen eggs or, a pack of margarine quarters and drop it off at a food pantry to help a family have at least one or two good meals and be able to use the food they have recieved from the food pantry. Hunger in America is a bigger problem than you may be aware of as is the number of homeless in America. I recentky read that the homeless population in America now is in the high double digit millions. If you feel that you do not have enough time to make a drop off at the food pantry simlpy use the donation button on the right for homeless prevention as they are both good causes. Help a fellow American- it is priceless.