First Annual Holiday Goat Drive

Friends and family - welcome to the first annual Holiday Goat Drive. Many of you may know our friend, Anne Hennelly, who spent eight weeks traveling in Africa between jobs this summer, including in Rwanda, where she met a nice American expat living in Rwanda (married to a Rwandan), Cathy (see pix of her at the link below), and learned about how a $20 goat can change the lives of a Rwandan family. A nice fertile goat provides milk for the kids and to sell, and babies to sell - goat vs. no goat is the difference between the family's children being able to go to school and not. So, Cathy helped Anne buy a goat ("Lucky"), and deliver said goat to a nice old lady while Anne was there. Since returning, Anne was very successful in a goat drive, collecting from friends and family for additional goats, and wired a ton of cash to Cathy - see pix of first goat distribution day on October 13 at the link.

We thought it would be nice to do another goat drive for the holidays (so much more fun to give a goat than an Amazon gift card ...) - so here is your chance to cheaply, easily and with certainty that goat delivery will occur with little or no overhead costs - send me $20 and you'll have bought yourself a goat!

I'm putting my address below - pop twenty bucks into an envelope to me, shoot it across the table at happy hour, send a check made out to me - we'll sort it out and get the goat money on its way to Africa! Anne will send another wire on December 15, if you want to make this distribution cycle (slackers who miss this deadline will go with the next wire, no fear). Send an email address and you'll get pix of the next goat distribution too!

Here is a link to Anne's album with Goat Distribution Day pictures and others that explain how/why this goat drive began:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=qx45q8x.2ub8veop&x=0&y=-mi3pfw. No pressure of course - there are so many ways to help out, so do so however you like. Many thanks and happy holidays!