Buy a Goat for a Family in Guatemala

Children are more likely to be healthy and educated when their families are not worried about where the next meal will come from. But in many Guatemala and rural parts of the world, families urgently need support to grow or buy a variety of foods for their children to thrive. To effectively fight child hunger and improve children's wellbeing, nutritious food must be made available to families, and families must have the means to buy it.

To help parents provide for their children's basic nutritional needs, Save the Children's hunger and livelihoods programs focus on improving the food supply, farming practices and finances of families in need. In addition to unique projects like the goat project you so generously support, we have robust programs all over the world. Among other things:

• We give families basic food staples following a natural disaster or emergency.
• We teach parents about the importance of providing their child with the right variety of foods to prevent malnutrition.
• We train small-scale farmers on how to prevent the loss of crops or livestock to drought, floods or disease.
• We guide family farmers on how to grow more nutritious foods, in larger quantities to eat or to sell, and how to raise animals for meat, eggs or milk.
• We help families access basic financial products like savings or insurance so they can persevere through challenging times, or start and expand their small businesses.
• And, we give youth the skills to succeed — like building their savings, teaching them how to manage money, and get a job and/or build a business.