The 25th annual Missouri Festival of Sharing culminated in its statewaide ingathering at the Missouri state fairgrounds in Sedelia, Missouri on Saturday, October 21st. Hundreds of people, representing Church congregations from around the state gathered to provide funds and commodities for relief and development programs both locally and world wide. Heifer has been one of the recipients of donations since the Festival's beginning and each year one overseas project and one domestic project are chosen for support, This year funds were raised for the OKI Fish and Water Buffalo project in Indonesia and beef cattle were donated for the Washington Parish Small-Scale Farmer project in Franklington, Louisiana . Jesse Strassburg, Heifer's Field coordinator for the South Central Region of the US attended the event and expressed his thanks on behalf of Heifer for the years of support the Festival has provided to our program. Donated Heifers (seen in the above picture) have been transported by volunteers to the project site. Income to support Heifer's projects is still being tabulated and will come to us in the near future. Thanks to all our Missouri Volunteers for their efforts!
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