Interact aids Ceres project

Yosemite High School Interact members who participated in the community service work for the Heifer Project are Amy Polhemus, Nick Starkey, Alison Sciarrino, Sonia Bahngoo, Kelly Lister, Veronica Gonsalves, Janelle Moylan, Taryn Porter, Ashley Underwood and Consuelo Mercier, advisor. Not pictured is Matt Montgomery.

Yosemite High School Interact members recently performed community service for the Heifer Project International at one of its small farms in Ceres.

This is a nonprofit program that provides farm animals to families in many different countries worldwide.

Interact will take this as one of its international projects for the 2001-02 school year.

The animals provided through the Heifer Project provide families with food to eat and a means of earning money for education, health care, housing and so forth.

Heifer Project goes where it is invited. Communities determine what they need and form a plan for achieving their goals. They prepare by working together to plant fodder, build pens and learn how to care for the animal.

Animals that are provided through the project include heifers, llamas, goats, rabbits, honeybees and chicks. Twenty different kinds of food- and income-producing animals are provided in the United States and other counties.

HPI also offers intensive training in animal husbandry, environmentally sound farming and community development.