This Guatemalan Lake Town Is Leading the Way Toward a Plastic-Free Future

The town of San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala, is leading a revolt against an increasingly common enemy: plastic pollution. Situated on the southwest banks of beautiful Lake Atitlán, San Pedro La Laguna is the ancestral home of the T...

Date: Mar 5th, 2019  |  Category: Tread Lightly

https://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/blog/2019/March/guatemala-lake-town-bans-plastic-.html

Relief Effort Underway After Volcanic Eruption in Guatemala

Heifer International has been closely monitoring the eruption of the Volcán de Fuego or the Volcano of Fire in Guatemala, which began Sunday and continues to produce smoke, ash and other volcanic material. The eruption has killed at least 75 and affected more than 1 million people in the southern region of th...

Date: Jun 6th, 2018  |  Category: What's New with Heifer

https://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/blog/2018/june/heifer-repsonds-to-guatemala-volanic-eruption.html

Trio of J.M. Thomason Seasoning Blends

Add an exotic flair to your kitchen and support Guatemalan farmers at the same time with a trio of unique and unexpected spice blends.

https://www.heifer.org/marketplace/product/trio-of-jm-thomason-seasoning-blends.html

HEIFER HAPPY SOUL MUG

Sip your favorite warm beverage from this unique stoneware mug.

https://www.heifer.org/marketplace/product/heifer-happy-soul-mug.html

Poverty and Violence Leave Hondurans No Option But to Leave Home

...ternational. On October 13, a group of 2,000 people left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, headed north toward the U.S-Mexico border. As the migrant caravan traveled, more Hondurans as well as some Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Salvadorians and Mexicans joined.  In response to the caravan, President Donald Trump said the U.S. government will cut international aid to the Honduras, Guatemala and El ...

Date: Oct 24th, 2018  |  Category: Citizens Without Borders

https://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/blog/2018/October/poverty-and-violence-leave-hondurans-no-option-but-to-leave-home.html

Remix Tired Holiday Traditions with a Latin American twist

There’s plenty going on in the United States in October, November and December, with our trick-or-treating at Halloween, Norman Rockwell-worthy turkeys at Thanksgiving, the Christmas tree towering o...

https://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/blog/2018/October/hype-up-your-holidays-with-death-demons-and-root-vegetables.html

Fill Families with Hope

Today, your generous gift will start a cycle of change that affects a whole community.

https://www.heifer.org/campaign/2019/fill-families-with-hope.html

Climate Change: The Unseen Cause of Migration

...angerous and difficult? The short answer is that they have no other choice.  Emigration is a hot topic in news today, and with good reason. Groups of men, women and children from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and other Central American countries continue to brave the notoriously dangerous route to the United States seeking asylum and desperately hoping for a better life. The journe...

Date: Apr 5th, 2019  |  Category: Citizens Without Borders

https://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/blog/2019/April/honduran-farmers-threatened-by-climate-change.html

4 Chilling and Thrilling Tales from Parts Unknown

One of the best parts of traveling to Heifer projects is when the people we meet around the world regal us with local ghost stories and legends. Here are a few of the tales we’ve heard that spooked ...

https://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/blog/2018/October/spooky-stories-from-around-the-world.html

A new caravan of Hondurans hopes to leave violence and poverty behind

...ff are keeping an eye on not only on the progress of the caravan of Honduran people, but also on the humanitarian and political reception they get as they travel north. While governments in Guatemala and Mexico are under pressure to close the borders, people, poor people, are organizing shelters and collecting food to feed the migrant caravan. A fantastic example of solidarity when bigot...

Date: Oct 19th, 2018  |  Category: Citizens Without Borders

https://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/blog/2018/October/caravan-of-hondurans-hopes-to-leave-poverty-behind.html