On March 22, 2013, Heifer Uganda received the Best Anti-Poverty Organization Award for Uganda's Golden Jubilee, competing against other nominees including ActionAID, OXFAM International and World Vision. Several assessments were undertaken by independent teams nationwide to determine the international NGO with the best sustainable approaches toward poverty eradication.
Flora Monga lives in Zambia. Two draft animals she received from Heifer International have significantly improved her land's production and now she rents them out to neighbors. Improved production made it necessary for the community to have a feed mill for processing their harvest, so this entrepreneur bought one.
In partnership with Syngenta Foundation and UAP Insurance, East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) launched a new animal insurance in Tanykina Dairy Plant in Kipkaren Nandi County in the North Rift of Kenya. With the newly introduced Kilimo Salama livestock insurance, 32 pioneer EADD farmers can hedge their dairy businesses from common loss due to disease and malnutrition.
In 2012, Heifer South Africa was awarded a grant for about $60,674 by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to develop its staff through several learning exchanges and training courses. CIDA was pleased with Heifer South Africa's successful activities and approved an additional $33,408 for 2013, to further capacity building activities.
Heifer South Africa represented Heifer International at a workshop that introduced new research that will explore how economic networks function in rural communities in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Such a deep understanding of the broader rural economic context will make it possible to determine how and where interventions like Heifer’s could have the greatest impact.
Jennifer Moyo of Zimbabwe is benefiting from the Hope for the San People project, improving her family's livelihood by raising chickens and helping her community by being a Community Animal Health Worker.
There is grinding poverty in the Chiredzi District of Zimbabwe, and the women have been left to look after families in very trying and difficult circumstances, while the men migrate to other countries for work. Involvement in a Heifer livestock project has empowered many women, who are spreading their newfound animal health skills and knowledge and improving their own livelihoods.
Through Heifer South Africa’s Sukuma Poultry Project, Ntombizethu Mhlakwana, 48, is using the resources available in her local community, including those resources provided by government, to improve her own life and that of her family.
Nosipho Ntanjana lives with her husband Sonwabile Ntanjana, their 13-year-old twin sons Sanele and Sandiso, and Nosipho’s brother Sonwabiso in Horeni village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Both unemployed, Nosipho and her Sonwabile have struggled for many years to support their sons on the limited child support grant they receive every month. While Sonwabile was able to supplement the grant with various part-time jobs, it was still not enough to ensure a stable future. Since joining the Siphenathi Project at the beginning of 2012, Nosipho has been able to acquire skills and knowledge to provide a better future for herself and her family.
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