From the Archives

In the summer of 1955, Heifer Project — now Heifer International — started working with the Prentiss Institute, an African-American junior...

We talk a lot about our work to end hunger and poverty, but now that we’ve been named Global Impact’s charity of the week, we thought we’d...

On July 14, 1944, a shipment of 18 cattle left the port of Mobile, Alabama, bound for Puerto Rico in a campaign to help impoverished communities...

This year marks Heifer International's 75th birthday! Learn who and what else is celebrating their Diamond Anniversary.

In the 1950s, 100,000 chicks were sent to Egyptian farmers from New York. For this initiative, Heifer Project partnered with the Christian Rural...

At the request and effort of pastors and leaders from the Methodist Evangelical Church in Bolivia, Heifer Project began work in the country in...

Heifer’s first shipment to Ecuador landed in Quito on October 13, 1948.

War broke out between North Korea and South Korea in the middle of 1950, leaving families mourning loved ones and struggling after the loss of...

Seventy-five years ago, farmer and Church of the Brethren member Dan West started the organization that is now Heifer International. After his...

Kathy Moore was a teenager when she herded 20 cows onto a ship bound for Japan in 1958. Now she usually sticks closer to home, but her dedication...