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Make a video, change a life

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Nov. 19 2010) – Do you like to make videos? Do you want to make a difference, to help change the world? If the answer is yes then you should visit www.heifer.org/contest.

Jo Luck co-winner of prestigious World Food Prize

Heifer International President Jo Luck today was named co-recipient of The World Food Prize—only the third woman to be so honored—for her work through Heifer to ensure availability and sustainability of food to people in need around the world.

Include a Heifer gift in your Easter basket

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Considering a gift of some marshmallow or chocolate bunnies, or brightly colored eggs for Easter? How about a trio of real bunnies that provides nutrition and income or a flock of chicks that produces real eggs—a gift from Heifer International—to help a family in need pull itself up out of poverty and hunger?

Heifer’s COO, Steve Denne, meets with Nepal’s president

(April 15, 2010) – Steve Denne, in his visit to Heifer International’s Asia and South Pacific region, had the chance during a visit to Nepal to meet with the country’s president, the Honorable Dr. Ram Baran Yadav. Denne, Heifer’s chief operating officer, met with the president at his residence in the capital city of Kathmandu during his visits to Cambodia, Nepal, India and Vietnam.

Heifer Village was a finalist for 2010 Arkansas’ Natural State Award

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Heifer Village, Heifer International’s hands-on, global education facility that illustrates the organization’s solutions to global hunger and poverty, was a finalist for the Natural State Award, part of Arkansas’ 2010 Henry Awards.

Heifer Village is not a calf anymore

Heifer International invites the public to a party to help celebrate Heifer Village’s first birthday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 19, at Heifer Village in downtown Little Rock.

Heifer tools help teachers empower students to change the world

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Teachers make a difference in their students’ lives every day, but Heifer International has materials available to teachers to use to help inspire their students to make a difference in the world.

Heifer survey team arrives in Haiti

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Heifer International staff arrived in Port-au-Prince Wednesday, March 17, to begin work with the Heifer Haiti team to help plan for the organization’s short and long-term rehabilitation and recovery strategies in the aftermath of the January earthquake.

Heifer staff safe following Tropical Storm Agatha, eruption of volcano

Heifer International country staff in Guatemala and Honduras are reported to be safe in the wake of Tropical Storm Agatha, which struck the Central American countries Saturday, May 29, killing nearly 200 people and displacing tens of thousands from their homes.

Heifer staff in Haiti helping in earthquake’s aftermath

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Heifer International continues to monitor news reports even as it works to maintain contact with its in-country staff in the wake of the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010.

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