Get your 220 ducks in a row, because that’s how many you’ll get for $36 in the Philippines. Raising these fluffy ducklings until they’re grown, microentrepreneurs can sell the duck’s eggs for use in cooking or as street snacks. Forget about putting all your eggs in one basket, the income they generate from these feathered friends helps pay for food, sanitation and school fees. Egg-cellent!

Help sustain the source of livelihood for a poor entrepreneur in India by investing in the buffaloan! For just $50, you can feed this valuable creature for a month, keeping a buffalo full, healthy and ready to produce the milk that provides a regular income for a number of the rural poor in India.

They’re cute and cuddly, but piglets also provide a common source of income for people living in poverty in the Philippines. Once they’re grown, pigs can be bred by microentrepreneurs to start a small farm, using the income they generate to provide for their families. For just $55, that’s a pig that’s sure to fly!

This gift helps entrepreneurs in Indonesia plough through poverty, allowing them to start a small vegetable farm – be it cabbage or carrots, beans or broccoli. Once it’s harvest season, they can collect their crop and sell the fresh produce at their own market stall for a profit, using the money to provide the basics for their families. Makes you wonder about money not growing on trees…

In West Timor, Indonesia, microentrepreneurs sometimes work as carpenters, either building structures or making wooden furniture. $209 is enough to provide supplies for a person in poverty to start a carpentry business, with items such as a saw, wood, nails, hammer and chisel. The profits they make help them keep a roof over their heads, food on the table and their kids in school. Now who woodn’t like that?