Heifer International
November 22, 2009
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Heifer provides livestock to poor families in developing nations to use for farming, food production, and fertilization. In addition, we teach animal husbandry and skills for flexible and sustainable rural farming. The idea: empowering communities with resources and education toward self-sufficiency is a better long-term solution than handouts for fighting hunger.
Heifer’s signature value, “Passing on the Gift,” requires recipients to share offspring of their animals along with resources and skills with other farmers, creating an ever-expanding network of hope. And since 1944, 45 million people–about 8 million families–have benefited from Heifer’s services. Heifer’s Hope for the Future Campaign has the ambitious goal of helping 23 million families move toward greater self-reliance during this decade.
Today, because of Heifer International, millions of people who were once hungry will be nourished by milk, eggs, meat and fresh vegetables. Families who have known only poverty for generations will be building new homes and starting businesses. And their children, who once headed out to the fields to do backbreaking adult physical labor, instead will move into schoolrooms to learn to read. People who never thought they would be in a position to help someone else will be experiencing the joy of charitable giving by “Passing on the Gift.”
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