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Heifer providing animals, support to Haiti project families

In the months since the January earthquake in Haiti, Heifer International staff—in country and headquarters—have been supporting ongoing recovery efforts and planning for the long-term work to help Haitians rebuild their lives through programs to restore agricultural livelihoods using Heifer’s values-based model.

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Heifer project in Zambia wins Best Practice Award

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Heifer International’s Miyoba Women’s Draft Cattle Project in Zambia has been selected for a Best Practice Award by InterAction, a coalition of humanitarian organizations providing disaster relief, refugee assistance and sustainable development programs worldwide.

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Heifer project in Albania wins Best Practice Award

InterAction cites livestock production, value chain development in recognition

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Dec. 21, 2010) – Heifer International's Integrated Dairy Development Project in Albania has been selected for a Best Practice Award by InterAction, a coalition of humanitarian organizations providing disaster relief, refugee assistance and sustainable development programs worldwide.

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Heifer President Jo Luck to talk service with Rotary

Heifer International President Jo Luck will be one of the keynote speakers in June at the Rotary International Convention in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which is expected to have a registration of 40,000 Rotarians.

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Heifer President Jo Luck honored as IABC Communicator of the Year

The Arkansas chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators has selected Heifer President Jo Luck as its 2010 Communicator of the Year.

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Heifer one of Top 10 most trusted nonprofits

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Heifer International is one of the top 10 most trusted nonprofits in America and one that people identified as an organization they would most likely personally give to, a new Harris Interactive brand equity study shows.

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Heifer names Pietro Turilli Central, Eastern Europe vice president

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Sept. 27, 2010) – Heifer International announced today that Pietro Turilli, a former evaluation officer with the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, is the new vice president of the organization’s Central and Eastern European area program.

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Heifer joining meeting to discuss Haiti redevelopment—‘from the ground up’

Heifer International staff—Corbin Lyday, international manager of government relations, and Oscar Castaneda, vice president of Heifer’s Americas program—will participate in strategic discussions on the role that non-profit, non-governmental humanitarian and development organizations will play in Haiti’s reconstruction.

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Heifer International sending assessment team to Haiti

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Heifer International is sending three staff to Haiti to begin to work with in-country teams to help determine the global hunger-fighting organization’s short-, mid- and long-term rehabilitation and recovery strategies in the aftermath of the January earthquake.