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Students advocate for Send a Cow charity

Manx government has donated £1.4m to work being done in Burundi

Year 12 students across the Island have been learning about charities working in the developing world in the hope of securing funding for them.

As part of the 'One World Challenge' they're then required to put together a short presentation which examines the effectiveness of the charity and the direct impact it has on people's lives.

Students Lexie and Nia, from Ramsey Grammar School, opted to research Send a Cow.

They were initially drawn to the charity based on the name - in the early days of the charity they were literally sending cows to deprived areas.

However now the charity's work is primarily focused towards helping families in rural southern Africa:

Send a Cow uses a technique called transformative household methodology which means allowing communities to support themselves sustainably in terms of economic wellbeing as well as gender equality in the household.

Between 2020 and 2021 Send a Cow helped almost a quarter of a million people across 30 different countries:

The Isle of Man Government has donated £1.4million to the work being done in Burundi. 

But looking at the long term effects of the work they're doing - how effective is their work and is it sustainable?

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