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Latvia: Support of Orphanage and Community through Small Animal Husbandry and Gardening

The Children’s Orphanage house and Gaujiena’s specialized boarding school have around 145 children between the ages of two and 18. The children were taken from their parents for reasons such as alcohol abuse, neglect and domestic violence. Stories about the children’s behavior have created fear among the villagers, so the orphanage and school are socially isolated. Heifer is working in this Latvia community to change that through joint trainings and different activities.

United States - Oregon - Eating Garden Veggies, Animal Care, Training and Sharing (EATS)

Heifer’s project in Oregon is helping to provide farmers with improved leadership and farming skills to improve residents’ food security. Last year, the farmers opened the Village Market to sell their locally grown produce. They have exceeded their sales goals, and employment has also increased due to the market.

India: Sustainable Community Development

Project participant Sayra Devi lives with her husband and their 10 children in a thatched house of two rooms and a kitchen. Her husband farms and earns a meager income as a laborer, along with their two oldest sons. Sayra is illiterate. She always stayed home, always wore veils and had no exposure to the outside world before her involvement with Heifer.

Zambia - Rural Community Development Project

Since 2007, Heifer has worked in Zambia to improve household income and nutrition for 492 families. Heifer’s successful strategy included training in sustainable agriculture and placement of income-producing and food-producing livestock. As a result of Passing on the Gift, families will continue to benefit in this region for years to come.

Ukraine - Carpathian Project

Heifer is assisting families in a rural portion of the Ukraine to help them develop more productive agricultural practices and to create networks for marketing their products. As a result, community members have worked together to create and develop the Carpathian brand to use in community development. They are increasing their social capital and their economic power.

Uganda - Eastern Uganda Umbrella Project

More than 70 percent of rural families in eastern Uganda rely on subsistence farming of staple crops like maize and sweet potatoes for survival. With an average of eight members each, families typically eat one unbalanced meal a day. Malnutrition and under-nutrition among children, lactating mothers and the elderly is prevalent.

Thailand - Empowering Marginalized Communities

The residents of northern Thailand have struggled in the past to raise animals, but they failed due to a lack of skills and resources. Heifer Thailand is working with 1,170 families in nine communities in this area to change their future. Through a holistic approach to community development, Heifer is empowering these communities to be self-sustaining.

Tanzania - Community Based Natural Resource Management

Heifer Tanzania helped hundreds of families to improve their nutritional status and incomes through its work in 10 villages. Thousands of fish fingerlings and numerous beehives were provided, along with training, to help people improve their lives and provide for their families.

Sierra Leone - Integrated Livestock Development

Residents of five villages in the Western Rural district of Sierra Leone all struggle for survival as a result of rapid population growth, a high incidence of communicable diseases and increased pressure on natural resources and infrastructure. Heifer is at work to assist 844 families in this area through a variety of strategies.

Rwanda - Sustainable Dairy Enterprise Development

Heifer International is hard at work to bring food and income security to resource-poor families in the northeast, northwest, central and eastern provinces of Rwanda. There are many obstacles to productive agriculture in this area. More than 1,200 families will benefit from this project that is helping to create a sustainable dairy enterprise in this challenging country.

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