#GiveHeifer to Help End Hunger and Poverty

Ugly Christmas sweaters are fun but they're also a pretty overt reminder of how lucky most of us are during the holiday season. This year, Heifer International is challenging us to use our social networks for good, by tagging ugly sweater photos (and other holiday memories) with #GiveHeifer. Each post shared from December 18th – National Ugly Sweater Day! – through December 31st using the #GiveHeifer hashtag will add $5 to Heifer's efforts to provide life-changing livestock to communities in need. They even provided some snazzy shirts for me and the kiddos to take our own #GiveHeifer selfies with:

Share ugly sweater selfies with #giveheifer through Dec 31st and @heifer will get $5 to help families in need!

A photo posted by Naomi Shapiro (@superdumb) on Dec 18, 2015 at 5:01pm PST

Learn more about how Heifer International provides livestock and agricultural training to help foster sustainable, self-reliant communities across the globe and here in the United States. It can be as simple as one chicken:


If you have someone who is hard to buy for on your holiday giving list, consider one of Heifer's unconventional and empowering options.