Heifer Twofer

How do you top the gift of three yaks?

Click to view whole image By giving two heifers! A heifer twofer, if you will.

Knowing the huge benefits gained from giving one heifer, two was the next logical step — but I bit off more than I could chew. I'd wanted to achieve the goal by the end of July, but by the beginning of September, we still hadn't reached even 50% of the target amount.

With so many supporting hurricane disaster relief in the United States (a far more critical and immediate need), I decided to close the drive before completion.

The final tally was about 45%, or US$922 (about HK$7,192) — still a respectable amount. It wasn't enough to buy a heifer, but by rounding up the total, I was able to purchase a yak, pig and a goat.

My deepest appreciation goes out to the following contributors (in alphabetical order):

Anonymous (by request), Ole Begemann, Boneplate, Dianne Brooking, Tom Burwell, Cindy Chan, Louis Chan, Sean Chan, Dana Chen, James Cummins & mother (x3), Margaret DeJong, Torgeir Hagland, Jeremy Haney, Ann Harwood, Gijsbert Heikamp, Patricia Hill, Wing-Chung Ho, Roy Hosking, Amanda Hotton, Robert J Hurst, James Jones, Robert Jones, Debbie Katz, Esmaeil Khaksarizamani, Christian Kroells, Allen Law, Deborah Linder, Anders McCarthy, Dusty-Lynn Miller, Stephen Moody, Stephen Moore, Roger of N5RCS.com (x2), Hanley Ng, Jonathan Perrins, Warren Ransom, Scott Roberts, Karen Saulnier (x4), Rebecca L Shindel, Erin M Shirey, Angela So, Helena Steward, Brent Stone (x2), Garrett Yee, Greg Vaughn, Sara Whitley, Sarah Whittey.

Forty-seven people qualified for the draw to win one of four limited edition BWG tees.

Four random draws from numbers corresponding to those names have yielded our winning quartet: Ole Begemann, Torgeir Hagland, James Jones and Jonathan Perrins.

Congratulations!

Donations were closed on September 5, 2005.

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