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WiLD--Women in Livestock Developement

Happy Holidays;

In this land of plenty and privledge I've pledged to help Heifer International plant the seeds of peace. I chose a high goal by choosing to dedicate my efforts to project WiLD. WiLD recognizes that women make up 70% of the world's poor, produce 80% of the developing world's food yet own less than 1% of the earth's land.

Heifer International's project WiLD understands that rural women are often overlooked by government programs and educational opportunities and face a cycle of poverty, hunger and despair. In a world where many women feel powerless we rural and urban alike have the power through a simple gift to change the lives of others. By focusing on women we help struggling families and communities.

Please join me this holiday season and together we can make a difference in the lives of families around the globe.






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About Robin Boies

Robin Boies
Robin Boies is the product of a northern Texas cattleman and a city-bred girl from Boulder, Colorado. As a child Boies remembers Sunday's marked by church school and the weekly sermon, followed by an afternoon of Pitch or Twenty-one with red, white, and blue poker chips stacked neatly in front of her. When it came to culture it was sublime opera in the house and Hank Williams in the green Chevy pick-up truck. Boies found herself in Steptoe Valley north of Ely, Nevada, at age seventeen. For the past 28 years Boies has lived 45 miles north of Wells, Nevada, at the Vineyard Unit of Boies Ranches with her husband Steve. There they raised three children, Teema, Nathan, and Samuel. Teema enters Gonzaga University this fall to pursue a graduate degree. Nathan is back in college when not at the ranch after a service engagement in the 101st Airborne, and Samuel graduated from high school last year and has been in New Zealand since September 2005. While tending to the needs of the ranch Boise works to understand and tell the stories of contemporary ranching culture through writing and videography.
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