New Heifer Learning Center
coming soon to California!
By early 2009, Heifer International Learning Center at Hidden Villa will provide educational programs that promote sustainable solutions to global hunger, poverty and environmental degradation.
The ten acre campus will be located at Hidden Villa, a nonprofit environmental education center in Los Altos Hills, California (18 miles west of San Jose). Since 1945, Hidden Villa has provided learning opportunities to inspire a sustainable future.
 The new center will be operated by Heifer staff and will feature the Heifer Global Village, a unique educational tool used by Heifer that allows participants to live the lessons and cultures of Heifer’s project partners by replicating living conditions in their countries. Programs offered through the Heifer Global Village will include Cultural Connections and Global Gateway.
Cultural Connections, for 4th through 6th graders, introduces younger children to Heifer’s work by celebrating the joy of the cultures in which Heifer works.
Global Gateway, for 6th graders – college-aged, is a more intense program that takes participants through the daily struggles that impoverished people face everyday. Click here to view the George Lucas Educational Foundation’s documentary on the Global Gateway program.
Volunteers are needed to facilitate the programs. To volunteer you must be at least 18 years old.
To learn more about the future Heifer Learning Center at Hidden Villa, email hidden-villa@list.heifer.org or call 650-948-1621.
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