For this week’s Music Monday, I wanted to make it a little bit more serious. So sure, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” is one of the best Christmas songs in the history of music and it’s one of my favourite’s, but it’s about music than just music. It’s about giving, sharing, life and heart.

So considering that we’re still in November it’s still early enough to make a difference. Therefore, I wanted to tell you about a great organization called Heifer International that you can donate too this holiday season on someone else’s behalf, rather than buying someone a gift.

I found out about Heifer International last year when my dad donated to them through his workplace rather than exchanging presents with another employee in the company’s yearly gift exchange.  When I heard about them I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Instead of giving money, or clothing or food, per se, to families in need, Heifer International gives them the means to make a living. By that I mean, that Heifer International will give a family a few chickens (they can get eggs and meat and get more chickens through procreation), or a goat (meat, more goats and milk … milk to make cheese and other dairy etc.) or a cow (meat, more cows and milk…well, you get it) so on and so forth.

The plan behind Heifer International is that by giving these families a means to make a living, it will get them out of poverty, feed them, feed others and the cycle will continue.

I thought it was pretty cool and I wanted to share it with you…so yep, just like Bono says, “feed the world”

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