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Missing People is the only charity in the UK which is dedicated to bringing missing children and adults back together with their families. Some missing people you will have heard of, but many more you won’t. For their families, life can feel like a desperate and unbearable struggle as they wait for days or even years. That’s why we are here for missing people and their families, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to provide free and confidential support by phone, text or email.

Send a Cow provide seeds, tools, livestock and agricultural training, alongside community development workshops in gender equality, conflict-resolution and farm business skills. Through our unique principle of 'passing on the gift' families we support commit to 'pass on' their training, seeds, and the first female offspring of their livestock to another family in need. In this way the original 'gift' strengthens entire communities as project benefits ripple out and spread our impact far wider than those we directly work with. “When we first start working with families, we don’t ask what they need. We ask them what they have already got.” Aklilu Dogosso, Send a Cow Ethiopia Send a Cow doesn't offer a quick fix solution to poverty and rural development - typically working with communities for three to five years to offer a hand-up rather than a hand-out and effect substantial and sustainable change. Within a few months malnourished families are eating regularly and are able to pay for children to attend school. Within a year families are diversifying their income streams to ensure they can survive when food is scarce and when unexpected disasters strike such as drought. Once graduated from Send a Cow families are economically stable with savings to invest and expand their farming businesses. Despite having helped over one million of the world’s poorest and most marginalised people out of poverty, there’s still more work to do. 220 million people in Africa go hungry every day, with nearly half living on less than 80p a day. It costs £650 to send a cow to a family in Africa. A cow is enough to provide a family with over 3,000 litres of milk a year. This milk gives nutrition to the whole family and brings a steady source of income every year from the scale of the surplus. In addition, using the cow’s manure on the land makes a huge difference to crop yields.

On Friday 30th June is National Cream Tea Day! please come to our store and help us change lives for people living with sight loss in the UK. we will offer teas and treats in exchange of a voluntary donation to support Guide Dogs.