Kids and Cows

Kids & Cows: North American Families reaching across the seas

by Beverly Smrha

We are delighted to announce a Unitarian Universalist service project for the children, youth, and families in your congregation. It is an opportunity to invest in the future of families in Unitarian congregations in Transylvania, family-to-family.

Kids & Cows is fun and educational. We have developed a lesson plan called “'Til the Cows Come Home,” with a component for younger children and one for older children, as well as a worship service. Your contribution to the Kids & Cows project will help provide hope for ongoing economic sustenance to families in many Transylvanian villages.

Your gifts will buy pregnant cows, feed, equipment, and veterinary care for the model dairy farm in Harghita County, Transylvania. When the calves born from these cows are two years old, they will be given to a family in another village. Families in this Unitarian heartland sell the extra milk from their cows, which helps them earn the money to send their children to school and provide a livelihood for the family.

Kids & Cows is especially well timed now to support your church's efforts to do alternative gift fairs or Christmas fundraisers, and of course it can be used any time during the year. In addition, this service project will give the young folks in your congregation an opportunity to make a real difference to their contemporaries in rural Romania. And YOU can provide an opportunity for the children, youth, and families in your home congregation to engage in meaningful social justice work that deepens their personal connection to our religious roots and to their religious cousins. Visit our website at www.projectharvesthope.org and download the Kids & Cows material today. If you have difficulty downloading the material, please contact us at kids@projectharvesthope.org and we will mail you a copy.

‘Til The Cows Come Home Program, by Cathy Cartwright, DRE
Project Harvest Hope
www.projectharvesthope.org

Project Harvest Hope is an Independent Affiliate Member of the UUA