Looking for a special last-minute holiday gift? Avoid the malls and not so useful items.

Visit the gift catalog at www.heifer.org where you can make a donation in someone's name to fight world hunger. You can print out a card insert detailing your gift of a Cow, Sheep, Bees, Trees, or other fun items. The communities that receive the animal are taught sustainable practices for raising the animal and using it for its economic resources (milk, wool, honey, eggs, etc.) instead of slaughtering it for meat. The family can then live a more healthful and economically secure life.

And the best part is that it's a gift that keeps giving: each family that receives an animal pledges to 'pass on the gift' by giving one of the animal's first born to another needy family.