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In Kenya, many children have been orphaned by the AIDs epidemic, and eighty percent of the them live in the rural countryside where poverty is also a major problem. HEART is a unique program that helps alleviate both of these problems by allowing a poorer, elderly member of the community to care for a child, while providing a way to improve both their means of support. The program starts by giving the orphan and care giver a young, pregnant goat, and then helps them in building up their herd. This provides them with milk, meat and eventually extra animals that can be sold. The program also benefits the children by teaching them animal husbandry skills in addition to their regular schooling. In the program, each child is provided a school uniform and the opportunity to attend formal education through the eighth grade. The Caris Foundation supports this unique operation by sponsoring 500 of these enterprising orphans.
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