Heifer Village

We took the kids to Heifer Village here in Little Rock today for free family Saturday!! We've gone in the past and the kids always have a great time petting the animals, making crafts, and exploring the hands-on exhibits about ending world hunger!!! Heifer is such a great organization and I'm so proud that it is right here in our city!! If you've never taken the kiddos, it is a must do to teach them about poverty and world hunger that us Americans so often forget about. Heifer's mission is to end hunger, poverty and care for the earth by giving families a hand-up, not just a hand-out empowering them for a lifetime!!! You can buy a family an animal in another country which turns into a sustainable income and nutriton and they pay it forward by passing on the offspring of their livestock to another family in need!! What a great organization!! I'm thinking about having Kennedy's next birthday party guests bring a donation toward purchasing an animal for a family, she has picked a goat, which produces milk, yougurt, cheese, etc!! I love that we have this in our backyard to teach our kids about giving back and that the world is so much bigger than what is right in front of us!!!