CORNERSTONE: FULL PARTICIPATION

Heifer Sacramento Raises Some Fun While Raising Some Funds

The Heifer Sacramento Community Volunteer group recently hosted an 'open-mic' concert to raise funds for Heifer. The group has a goal of $10,000 this year, and plan to do it with several casual activities like this.

Bike-a-Thonners Meet Challenge for Heifer

United Methodist Church in Concord, California held the 24th Annual Bike-a-Thon for Heifer. May 4 was a beautiful day for a bike ride in the Napa Valley, when 19 riders and 5 support crew members from the Concord United Methodist Church took to the scenic roads to raise money for Heifer.

Meeting the Children of Heifer Nepal

Nepal

I see children everywhere at Passing on the Gift® events, door-to-door visits, hanging around their mothers and marching in rallies alongside women. These children are growing up around strong, independent women who have a voice and opinions to bring change in their community.

Benefit Concert Featuring the Joyful Noise!

The Joyful Noise! Gospel Choir is preparing traditional African music, spirituals, slave songs, and contemporary gospel and original music to raise money for the good work of Heifer International.

Mercer Elementary MOOOOves Mountains

Mercer MOOOOves Mountains with Heifer International! During the month of March in 2013, the students and staff at Mercer Elementary School in Shaker Heights, Ohio began a campaign to raise money and awareness for Heifer International and its mission to end world poverty and hunger. Many acts of generosity, selflessness and effort led to a very successful campaign.

Family 'Mooooved to Action'

We named our cause “Mooooved to Action” and our goal was to raise enough money by selling our homemade jewelry to purchase a milk cow for a family that needs help through Heifer International. Our kids could hardly wait to purchase the cow and worked for about three months on their goal.

Selling Agroecological Products at the Market in Ecuador

Ecuador

We sell the horchata for 40 cents a glass and can earn about $150 in a day. It is a source of income. It helps with the costs of school for my son and food for home.

Seeing the Nature of Heifer's Work

Vietnam

I was amazed to see firsthand the holistic view of development that Heifer propagates. The projects are not limited to passing on a cow; rather, Heifer's 12 Cornerstones for Just and Sustainable Development encompass every aspect of life, from diversifying incomes to empowering women and families to working together to end poverty.

Pierre Ferrari Visits Projects in Nepal

Nepal

Their success is an inspiration not just to me, but to groups like them all over the world who see that whatever they can imagine they can make real with their own hands.

Young Armenian Girl Achieves Egg-cellence

Armenia

I love my business. It's not an easy deal; it requires care, attention and a high sense of responsibility.

International Women’s Day: Be Part of the Solution

Empowering women is at the core of Heifer International’s model for sustainable development. In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, this week we are sharing stories of the women with whom Heifer works, who take the gifts of livestock and education to produce extraordinary results for themselves, their families and their communities.

Sandura, Zimbabwe: a Community of Transformation

Zimbabwe

The community of Sandura is in Zimbabwe’s Gokwe North district in the Midlands province.

An Amazing Woman

Vietnam

Following the small concrete path, we were surprised to find a lively painted thatched house peacefully surrounded by green paddyfield, pig pen, hen house and garden of flowers.

Cooperatives in Ukraine: A Step Toward Sustainability

Ukraine

The global financial and economic crisis has also demonstrated the resilience of alternative financial institutions such as cooperative.

Irish Heifers Given to Romanian Women on International Women’s Day

Romania

Of the 66 Irish heifers that landed one month ago in Romania, 45 were distributed yesterday, March 8th, for International women’s Day as Heifer gifts to 45 women from Rasca, Cluj County.

Technology, Partnerships and Women Will Advance African Dairy Industry

Kenya

Elizabeth Bintliff, Vice President for Heifer’s Africa Program, presented a keynote address at the April 2012 8th African Dairy Conference and Exhibition held by the East and Southern Africa Dairy Association.

Heifer Works with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Double Farmer Income

Kenya

One of Heifer International’s biggest projects is EADD – the East Africa Dairy Development project.

East African Value-Added Cooperatives Rock

Kenya

As we celebrate UN Day of Cooperatives, we also celebrate a new revolution in dairy cooperative development that is taking shape in Kenya.

Heifer's Long-term Approach to Natural Disasters

Haiti

In late October, Hurricane Sandy barreled through the Caribbean Sea and up the eastern seaboard leaving a path of destruction.

REACH: Rural Entrepreneurs for Agricultural Cooperation in Haiti

Haiti

The future of Haiti begins in its soil but will come to fruition only in the marketplaces of the Caribbean, Central and South America and beyond.