Help lift families from poverty to prosperity

Thanks to the help she received from Heifer International and generous supporters like you, Sharada Khadka has invested the income earned from selling goats’ milk into a now-thriving farm.

That’s because when you support Heifer International, you make it possible for women like Sharada Khadka, of Chandisthan, Nepal, to lift themselves out of poverty and begin a journey towards self-reliance.

Before Heifer, Sharada was a single mother struggling to care for her two young children. And even though Sharada worked hard every day, she still could not earn enough to pay for her own home or her children’s education.

But then Sharada joined a local Heifer women’s group and her circumstances began to turn around immediately. With the gift of a pair of goats and training in their care, along with training in values based literacy, gardening, and gender equity, Sharada was able to increase her family’s income.

Sharada is now a successful farmer and earns enough income to send her children to school. She has even bought her very own home. And thanks to Heifer’s cornerstone of Passing on the Gift, Sharada has already shared her success with another member of the community with the gift of offspring from her goats. Help other women like Sharada become self-reliant.

Courageous women like Sharada are helping to change the world, one community at a time. Women like Constance Bamuyaga from Uganda, Wang Xiaorong from China, Anush Ghazaryan from Armenia, and Maria Santos Barrientos from Honduras are taking extraordinary steps showing that sheer determination coupled with the gifts of livestock and training are changing their lives.

You can be a part of this special movement across the globe by donating to Heifer today.

For more than 65 years we’ve been helping struggling families with the gift of livestock and training. It’s a simple formula, but it works. That’s because for families living in the most remote communities in the world, the simple gift of a cow, a goat or a flock chickens is enough for them to take the first steps towards a bright and prosperous future.

Please make an online gift today and your generosity will go to work right away, helping us change the world, one community at a time.

The global recession has pushed an additional 100 million people into hunger this year. And, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, for the first time in history, the number of hungry people in the world has topped 1 billion.
Malnutrition is the single largest contributor to disease. And with 45% of the world’s children now living in poverty and vulnerable to malnutrition, every six seconds of every day another child dies because of hunger related causes. With your help, parents can use livestock and training to generate steady and sustainable sources of income and nutrition so their children can grow up healthy and strong.	More than 60% of the world’s hungry are women. And while women are responsible for producing the majority of food in the developing world, the discrimination and inequality that many women still face puts them at greater risk of malnutrition Through programs like Women in Livestock Development (WiLD) and our Gender and Family Focus Cornerstone, your continued support of Heifer International will empower women around the world with opportunities to reach their full potential.	Despite the explosive growth in cities and widespread urban poverty, about 75% of the world’s hungry people live in rural communities. Most have little or no land of their own and are extremely vulnerable. Heifer International’s holistic approach prepares families to be self-sufficient. With your support, we follow a comprehensive approach that pairs livestock with training — so each family we serve has both the opportunity and the skills to build a secure and independent future.