Tipp Farmers Can Save Lives By Sending Calves To Prison
Bóthar, the Irish international development agency, is calling on Tipperary farmers to send a calf to prison – literally – this spring in a project that will turn lives around in some of the poorest regions of the world.
The Chief Executive of the development agency, which was co-founded by the late farm leader and Tipperary native TJ Maher and uses livestock to lift over 6,000 families out of destitution each year across the globe, has asked farmers to consider donating a dairy calf over the coming weeks to Shelton Abbey open prison where inmates will rear it before it is sent as an in-calf heifer abroad.
Launching its ‘Call for Calves’ appeal, Bothár CEO Dave Moloney, from Newport, said that the Shelton Abbey experience over the past four years has been a ‘win-win’ for all concerned. “The Shelton Abbey project is one of the best we have been engaged in over our 21 years in operation. The dairy calves donated by farmers are superbly cared for by inmates under supervision by the farm managers at Shelton, whose support has been amazing.
“The inmates themselves get a lot from the project as they get to give something back to society, which is an important part of their rehabilitation. Then there are the most important beneficiaries; the families living in the most abject poverty who are gifted the in-calf heifers. This simply changes their world.
Full story in this week’s Tipperary Star.
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