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The Rural Voice, 2006-12, Page 42T.S. Fabrication RR #1 Walton, ON NOK 1Z0 Manufacturers & Distributors of Drag Hose Systems, Injectors, Rotary Distributors, Manure Spreaders & Tankers, Dump Trailers, Post Pounders, Log Splitters grass & brush cutting equipment dump trailers ag axels, suspension & steering kits manure tankers & injectors, trailers ISE s GUNNING INEmsl'M1NN manure spreaders manure spreaders ,1,$ spnsAoFA8 drag hose systems, rotary distributors phone: 1-519-887-9378 toll free: 1-800-265-9682 fax: 1-519-887-9011 cell: 1-519-440-6812 tsfab@bellnet.ca Melt cly Cnviatntaa (tem Carol Mitchell, M.P.P. Huron -Bruce Constituency Offices CLINTON KINCARDINE 49 Albert Street 322 Lambton Street NOM 1 LO N2Z 1Y9 Bus: 519-482-5630 Bus: 519-396-3007 or 1-800-668-9320 or 1-866-396-3007 Website: www.carolmitchell.ca ''� . `r Jam. May your holiday season be filled with peace, . health and happiness 1+1 ' Gary Schellenberger, MP Perth -Wellington Stratford (519) 273-1400 Mount Forest (519) 323-4390 Toll-free 1-866-303-1400 www.mpperthwellington. ca *A7t3:22R4kL' 1 L 38 THE RURAL VOICE Saharan country make it hard to grow vegetables. "The goats my family received from our Canadian friends are a gift from God," said Khaireni who, with her brothers and sisters, never knew her father and was left by her mother to live with their grandmother. "Now we have lots of milk." Though their family is one of the poorest in, Oudey Niagia, a village of about 400 in southern Mauritania, they will be able to help others in the village because of their gift. The goats' offspring will be given to neighbouring families who can use the milk themselves or sell it at market. "They were so proud," described World Vision field worker Abdallihi Mamadou Ly of the children receiving their gift. "Most of these childrenhave never owned anything in their lives." As well as gifts from individuals, groups are also getting together to help make a difference. At the 40th anniversary dinner of the Ontario Egg Producers ill 2005, farmers and industry partners bid up the price of hen - shaped centrepieces at each table until they had pledged more than $6,000 to World Vision to buy hens and roosters. Churches and schools have also come together to raise money that can be used for larger gifts. For $1200, for instance, you can buy a barn -full of food -producing animals, including a goat, cow, hens, rooster piglets and an ox. For $500 you can build a greenhouse to help protect crops in harsher climates like Ecuador or Peru . And $700 buys a water buffalo that can transform the life of an impoverished family by providing a steady food source and increasing their crop yield. Buffalo milk is a great source of protein for children. In countries like India, it's also used to produce butter, cheese, yogurt, and oil. And water buffalos are perhaps the most versatile of all work animals, used to plow fields, level land, plant crops, puddle rice fields, harvest crops, pump water, haul carts, carry people, and more. There are other gifts suggestions in the catalogue for those who don't have a farming bent. For $35 you can