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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.

Castelnau Community Centre is a vibrant, self-sustaining community in the Castelnau Estate and surrounding area. Our core values… • Listening to those who live in the community • Working ‘with’ members of the community and not ‘for’ them • Developing activities and resources that are locally owned and run • Helping those involved in the project to acquire new skills, knowledge and confidence • Working in partnership with other organisations Our key aims… • To listen to children, young people and adults of all ages and to work with them • To identify and address particular needs of all kinds to ensure access for all • To encourage volunteering and support volunteer groups in social, learning and leisure activities • To communicate neighbourhood activities and services effectively • To care for and improve the Castelnau Centre building The Castelnau Centre Project is all about promoting a vibrant and self-sustaining community in North Barnes. The building operates as a focal point and accessible physical space, through which members of the community can access a range of activities addressing the needs of very young babies and their parents, primary and secondary aged children and young people, adults and the most senior members of the community. The Project is delivered in partnership with a creative group of volunteers, who regularly give of their time and energy to support the small staff team.

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.