The lives of 3,508 Nepal families have been changed after participating in Passing on the Gift® month. And very soon they will become empowered enough to change other families' lives by Passing on the Gift®.
Sixteen-year-old Shushan Khachatryan of Armenia, presented a business plan and received a $100 grant to start her business through Heifer Armenia’s Young Agriculturists Network of Armenia (YANOA) project. Her business plan included a unique and innovative idea to boost her haricot, a type of bean, sales. "Everybody in the neighborhood talked about my new business approach of providing recipes to the customers," she said.
The first indicators of the Milk for Money project’s artificial insemination positive results were recorded in the village of Sarnakunq in Armenia's Syunik region, with the majority of cows delivering healthy cross-bred cows that will bring higher productivity in milk and/or meat production. Day by day, more and more farmers are convinced artificial insemination generally gives the best results to improve animal productivity.
Renuka Begum, a member of the Protissurity Samaj Unnayan Samitee self-help group (SHG) in Bangladesh, became involved with a Heifer project in 2011. With dreams of being self-dependent, she is well on her way. She is now chairman of the women’s SHG and very involved in her community and her family's improved livelihoods.
Heifer's work in Mexico was recently featured by Mexican newspaper Noticias in an article titled "Chain of Solidarity: Families in the Valley and Southern Mountains Exchange Cattle and Poultry in a Sign of Mutual Aid."
By partnering with the Clinton Foundation and organizations like North Coast, Heifer continues to effect positive change in Haiti. Valuable connections like these make it possible for Haitians to realize sustainable success. Heifer's President and CEO Pierre Ferrari shares about his recent trip to Haiti with President Bill Clinton.
The Saturday Fair is comprised of 33 associations from different parts of the Tungurahua province in Ecuador. Only agroecological products are sold at this market, and regular customers say they keep coming every Saturday because of the taste and quality of the products.
This Philippines dairy project is seeing positives results in the early stages with participants making careful preparations such as planting forage gardens and building a meeting area. They are set to receive dairy goats in June.
For many years, Heifer Armenia and the Fuller Center for Housing Armenia have been striving to better the well-being of rural families.The project helped the Markosyan family renovate their old, partially destroyed house and they also received four beehives from Heifer Armenia.
Young entrepreneur Nairi Hakobyan received a seed grant through Heifer Armenia's YES! Youth Club and established a fruit tree nursery.
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