Heifer Builds Self-Reliance in Brazil

By Brooke Edwards

October 3, 2019

Last Updated: February 3, 2012

More than 150 women in southern Brazil who were abandoned by their husbands and left to care for their children and grandchildren found self-reliance through a Heifer project. They no longer search trash cans for food, but grow kitchen gardens and earn money selling handicrafts. In this brief video, Rogério Rosa tells their story.