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With support from Heifer’s East Africa Youth Inclusion Project, 25-year-old Mpiima Muhammed went from school dropout to a successful agri-entrepreneur. This World Youth Skills Day we honor his and the global youth’s resilience in the face of hardships.

A new subsidy program facilitated by Heifer Nepal is tackling the issues that stifle growth for small-scale farmers. The solution? Local governments and cooperatives collaborating to award farmers grants based on their sales figures — and the model is scaling quick.

While companies, traders and intermediaries extract profit from cardamom, producers struggle to get by. Heifer Guatemala’s Green Business Belt Program is changing this reality, closing the living income gap for farmers through full participation in the supply chain.

Thanks to the leadership of Donna Kilpatrick, Heifer Ranch became a Savory Hub in Arkansas – a teaching center on regenerative agriculture, whose mission is to equip farmers and ranchers with the knowledge to rehabilitate grassland ecosystems at scale.

For most women in rural Ghana, financial empowerment remains an elusive reality. This was certainly the case for Rose Yeboah, until she joined the Forever Chocolate Pilot Project and launched a wildly successful soap business.

In Kopuwa, Nepal, many women depend on their husbands for income. The women of Bihani Dairy cooperative are joining forces to make sure that they, and other women in their communities have opportunities to earn income of their own.

Lunar New Year or Spring Festival is an important holiday celebrated in China and other countries in East and Southeast Asia. Called Chunjie in China, Têt in Vietnam, Seollal in South Korea and Losar in Tibet, Lunar New Year is a multi-day celebration beginning on the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar and ending as the first full moon of the year takes its place. In 2021, Lunar New Year begins on February 12 and ushers in the Year of the Ox or Golden Cow.