Send a Cow – SPB Supports Sustainability

As we learn about sustainable development and how we can be global citizens we decided to raise money for Send a Cow.  The charity provides cows to families in Africa, visit www.sendacow.org for more details.  Our aim was to raise £650 to buy a cow; this will support many of the Sustainable Development Goals.

We raised money by organising five fundraising events:

Name the Cow

Thank you to all children who paid £1 to guess the name of the cow. We raised £143!

Winners of the name a cow competition won a cow teddy and a milk chocolate hamper.

Design a Cow Mascot

Children designed their own cow mascots to raise awareness of sustainable development. We had 17 fantastic entries, thank you to all children that entered. We raised another £17.  Rights Ambassadors voted for their favourite mascot and Nancy Rowe was our winner.  Nancy’s cow ‘Gertie Goals’ is now displayed around school.

Buy a mini milk ice lolly

Thank you to all who bought an ice lolly to support SPB’s fund raising for Send a Cow.  We raised £120!

Mooovie Afternoon

 Each class had a ‘Moovie Afternoon’. We enjoyed watching a movie with popcorn and a drink and raised another £230! 

Let’s get moooving!

Children dressed in black and white as part of the final fundraising activity raising money for our chosen charity Send a Cow. They took part in relay races on the yard in our year groups. Each year group ran approximately 3.7 miles between them on the running tracks. This helped the children to understand that this is the distance a child on average has to travel each day for drinking water. Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals is to ensure access to water and sanitation for all. Article 24 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child states that all children have the right to clean water, nutritious food and sanitation.

 Our target was to raise £650 to buy a cow for a family in Africa. Dairy cows are vital to rural farming families and the impact of a cow is life-changing! All five fundraising activities were all thought of by the children.  Thank you for all your support and for your generous donations, we raised a massive £770! Wow! Please click here to view our certificate.  We had enough money to buy a cow and the remaining money could provide a family with tools, vet kits and even goats and chickens. Cows and goats provide nutritious milk to help feed families. Together with sheep, chickens and rabbits they give mineral-rich manure to improve the soil and its crops.

 Visit www.sendacowgifts.org/ to see how donations transform lives.  This cow will make a huge difference to a family in Africa enabling them to access many of the Sustainable Development Goals.  

Please see some photographs below of our ‘Send a Cow’ activities!