The Zaka district is now able to organize the marketing of goats, cattle and poultry on their own after working with Heifer Zimbabwe. Their business success has already benefited co-op group members and the surrounding communities..
Heifer project participants like the Kitamari family and "Mr. Camel" in Tanzania have taken the skills learned in Heifer's trainings and created successful enterprises for their families.
Colleagues from Heifer’s U.S. staff visited Heifer Guatemala the week of September 24-28. The visit was an important one in terms of the new fundraisers achieving experiential understanding of Guatemala’s projects.
At Heifer Peru, we have strategically considered the inclusion of information and communication technologies, or ICTs, for the development of campesino communities. We believe that its use decreases the inequity gap in access to up-to-date information, which can generate the capacity that is needed to begin self-sustained social and economic development of people. Thus, we look to ICTs to help improve the quality of life of people in the most vulnerable sectors.
An opening ceremony was held for Ukraine’s first milk-processing cooperative plant, Molochnyi krai, in Chernivtsi oblast on October 23, 2012. The enterprise was established by Hospodar Pidhiria, a union of agricultural service cooperatives, as part of a Heifer project.
Emerging youth leaders in Mindanao developed their public service skills and learned about the importance of sustainable development through a new internship program. The United States Embassy of Cultural Affairs in Manila, Heifer Philippines and the National Youth Commission (NYC) sponsored the program, which was held October 22-31, 2012.
Pa Phoeuk, 31, and her husband live with their two-year-old son in Cambodia’s Andoung Khmer village, Chhouk district, Kampot province. They work very hard in rice production to support their family. However, since rice is their only crop, there is rarely enough production for year-round consumption. In October 2010, Phoeuk joined a women’s group within Heifer’s Improving Marginalized Groups Livelihood and Values-Based Holistic Community Development project, which is implemented in partnership with Khmer Women Cooperation for Development (KWCD). She actively participates in her group’s savings scheme, monthly meetings and other activities. Through the project, her family received technical and non-technical trainings, as well as two piglets (one for fattening and a sow for breeding) for income generation. After participating in the project for one year, Pa Phoeuk’s family was markedly different, having improved in terms of the three levels of impact.
To own a business, you need relevant knowledge, a project, responsibility and the initiative to start. Heifer International is providing business training to more than 200 members of 20 YES! Youth Clubs in rural Armenian communities.This training encourages an entrepreneurial spirit, setting the participants up for a prosperous future.
Heifer helps people regain their self-sufficiency after disasters have stripped it from them. Sahakyan Garnik was a successful pig farmer in Armenia, but an earthquake destroyed his farm, he was never able to financially recover. Heifer gave him two pigs, and now his farm is thriving. 
Heifer Haiti staff distributed more than 400 packages of food to families affected by Hurricane Sandy on Nov. 2-3. Each bag contained rice, corn, sugar, milk, beans, flour and cooking oil. 
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