I wasn’t going to do anymore posts on the stat of Canucks because to be honest it just makes me depressed. But I was watching Global News this morning and a neat story caught my eye.
A guy named Joel Nagtegaal who with a couple of his goatee growing hockey buddies decided that they would do some good for the world and for every Canucks win in the playoffs (they were hoping for 16) they would donate a goat through The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) to an African village.
The goats are easy to take care of, provide a constant source of milk, they can sell the offspring to other villages so their kids can afford to go to school, and then later on in their life provide meat for the village to eat. What a cool idea!
But thats not were the story ends. What started as the hope for 16 goats between hockey buddies has turned into a Twitter page, website and as of May 16th 2009 at 9:38am 732 Goats! More proof of the power of the Internet. So props to Joel, his buddies and the goats for trying making the world a better place.
If you would like to donate a goat to an African village ($25/goat) you can do so through the Goat Canucks Goat website (I will also provide the link in “the associates” section of my blog, or directly through the CRWC website.
Goat Canucks Goat!
jordenf
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Filed under: sports, the web | Tagged: canucks, CRWC, goats, nhl, twitter
