Twenty families in Bonjisnthiang received sheep from Heifer International in February 2012. Working in concert with Heifer, partner organizations addressed... View Article
When a wind woke Noel Apan on December 4, 2012, he wasn’t worried. Typhoons always hit farther north than his... View Article
Ruth Dewu is part of a tree-planting committee in Chiponde Village in western Malawi. She and other members of the... View Article
Ndiolle Faye For years, Ndiolle Faye’s family lived in poverty, earning what they could from their small farm. They struggled... View Article
This is Feliciana Martin, a small-scale coffee farmer. Her one-acre farm barely supported her and her daughter. But in 2012, she received a gift of honeybees from Heifer International. Since then, Feliciana has seen a noticeable increase in her coffee harvest. (Improving pollination will often increase crop yields by 200-300%.) What’s more, the bees themselves are the thriving business. Within six months of getting her bees, Feliciana had collected 60 pounds of honey and doubled her hives. In the years since, Feliciana has trained other community members on the proper care of bees, and given them hives, helping them toward financial independence. This is what Heifer does. Feliciana has gone from being someone who needed help, to being a person who is able to help others. This is called “Passing on the Gift,” and it's a core part of Heifer's work. When you donate, it doesn't only change a family forever, it moves through a community like a shockwave, spreading good for generations… Feliciana used to dream of a better life for her daughter. Now, with more reliable income she can use for food, medicine, and schooling, that dream is a reality.
After working on their own for 21 years, the women in Azacualpa village saw things begin to change in 2005 when 22 families received heifers from Heifer International. Four years later, in 2009, they received chickens and completed two rounds of Passing on the Gift, sharing chickens with other families in their community. Seeing the positive results from these first two projects, the women wanted to try something a bit more ambitious.
A few days before one of Bangladesh’s biggest public holidays Nur Islam Neha was busy building. The 12-year-old from Rajshahi district had decided to make a small clay copy of the Shaheed Minar monument in the capital of Dhaka in celebration of International Mother Language Day on February 21. The three-pronged structure serves as a memorial to four students killed by police on February 21, 1952 in Dhaka during protests over the then government’s language policy.