NORTH Agency Holiday Gift - Heifer International.

So for Christmas '08, the agency I worked for purchased, through an organization called Heifer International, cows in the names of each of its clients.

The cows were then donated, in our clients names, to poor African villages, where their milk was used for nourishment and for sale and profit at local markets.

I was told to come up with a way to break this news of bovine philanthropy to our clients. So I wrote them a letter. From a cow.