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Every year 300,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with cancer, facing tough questions, exhausting treatment and difficult emotions that can range from anxiety to loneliness and isolation. These challenges affect not only the person with cancer, but their family and friends too. Maggie's is here for everyone and anyone affected by cancer, offering a programme of support that has been shown to strengthen physical and emotional wellbeing. Built alongside the hospital, Maggie's Centres are places with professional staff on hand to offer the support people need. They are places to find practical advice about benefits and eating well; places where qualified experts provide emotional support; friendly places to meet other people; calming spaces simply to sit quietly with a cup of tea.

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.