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Cow is a Treasure
"Give me a cow," said old Halil. "That's
all I need. If we had cows, we could take
care of ourselves again."
So a Global Impact member agency encouraged a
group of 24 displaced families living
in Slatina, outside of Sarajevo, to put
together a plan.
With funding from the Global Impact member, four
veteran farmers of the group went to the
area livestock market. They returned with
10 hearty cows, nine of which were pregnant.
Families with the greatest need received
the cows, and the others receive a share
of the milk and cheese. In addition, the
group made an "in-kind" payback by providing
milk and cheese to a local group for distribution
to Sarajevo's neediest.
Amir, chair of the Cow Committee who
saw his 11-year-old son killed by a grenade
put it this way: "Now I feel like a human
being again," he says seriously and with
his head held high, "because now I can
help others who are even worse off than
we are."
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