Families from the Miao ethnic minority group in Gui Xi Village, a key poverty alleviation and development village in southeastern China, took part in the village’s first Passing on the Gift® ceremonies on April 20 and 22, 2013.
At the foot of a snowy mountain in Tibet sits Dan Nu Village, a semi-farming, semi-pasturing community where people make their living farming and raising livestock. Participants from the villages of Xue Ba, Zhi Ba and Da Nu gathered here for a Passing on the Gift ® (POG) ceremony and to celebrate their success.
Before its projected Passing on the Gift® (POG) date, Heifer China held a special POG ceremony in honor of International Women's Day.
Elementary students gathered in the small auditorium of Shanghai Jincai High School International Division in China’s Pudong New Area on March 25, 2013, to kick off the school’s second Read to Feed program. This year's participation has doubled, promising an increase in donations to Heifer International.
Tian Yihua is well-known around her village in China for her filial spirit, sacrificing her time to take care of her ailing mother-in-law and sacrificing a kidney to save her brother's life. Now she is a Heifer project participant, planning to make full use of her potential and carrying forward the spirit of self-reliance by continuing to pass compassion forward onto others.
Heifer China held a successful charity event on March 23, 2013, in the Beijing Grand Millennium Hotel. Heifer China's first-ever gala was attended by 280 guests, including representatives from the government, the corporate sector, NGOs and other organizations.
On February 22, an opening ceremony of the Read to Feed program was held at YK Pao Primary School in Shanghai for the third year. As Heifer China participates in the Aid Project in Xinjiang, held by the Shanghai government, this year’s program donation will be go directly to Yarkant County in Kashgar, Xinjiang, and purchase Simmental cattle and Dolan sheep.
More than 100 farmers participated in a Lamb Judging Competition held January 12, 2013, in Tokay Village, China. Eighty families received 395 quality ewes after the project officially launched in December 2011. By the end of 2012, 326 lambs were born; these lambs were the “contestants” of this Lamb Judging Competition.
Zhang Ping, director of Dumex Baby Food Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Danone Baby Nutrition, and four others visited the Heifer China office on December 3, 2012. They attended a steering committee meeting and visited another Heifer project to learn its best practices and meet project participants.
To increase incomes and build community harmony, 60 project participants attended a four-day training on livestock technology held by Heifer China.
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