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Other Information for Heifer-Chicago Volunteers
Thanks for volunteering and helping spread the good word about Heifer! Your time and efforts are much appreciated. Although many of you already have plenty of experience with Heifer presentations, you may find useful the Key Heifer Messages and responses to some Frequently Asked Questions.
Volunteers, please report your activities by completing the attached Volunteer Activity Report form and sending to Chris Quinlan at christopher.quinlan@heifer.org.
Heifer International Opens Area Office in Lombard, IL
Heifer International, a nonprofit organization with world-wide programs to help end poverty and at the same time care for the Earth, has established a Chicago area office at the York Center Church of the Brethren.
The purpose of the York Center Heifer office, located at 1S071 Luther Avenue, is to provide assistance to local churches, community groups, libraries, and other organizations in their activities to raise funds and awareness for the Heifer projects. The office, operated by local volunteers, has available a range of brochures, DVDs, posters, and other materials describing the Heifer programs. Questions concerning obtaining assistance from this office can be sent to chicagoheifer@gmail.com. More>>
New Numbers
Beginning January 1, 2011, Heifer literature will reflect numbers the board approved in its year end report. The new numbers are:
Since 1944, the total number of families assisted directly and indirectly is 13.6 million — more than 70.5 million men, women and children. In 2009, a total of 1.63 million families were assisted within the four program areas in which Heifer operates.
- Africa, 442,942
- Americas, 473,319
- Asia/South Pacific, 432,976
- Central and Eastern Europe, 282,623
Hossword Puzzles
Refine your global vocabulary with these Heifer International crossword puzzles. Use the crossword puzzles in Heifer exhibits, as group activities, or send them home with your students to complete with their families. Puzzles labeled as "Easy," "Medium," and "Easy" are available for downloading. more>>
News from Heifer International
"Passing on the Gift" 2011 Spring Campaign
Message from Heifer's Senior Director of Innovation, Tom Peters
Dear Volunteer,
As you know, Heifer has sought ways to increase the number of families around the world it can help move to self-reliance. For the last two years, one way we've been able to do this is through an annual campaign. This year's Pass on the Gift Campaign is different in two ways. First, it goes beyond April to include all of spring (March, April and May).
The second change is a focus on Women in Livestock Development (WiLD). Participating individuals and groups can opt to send any funds they raise to the WiLD fund, which will go specifically to projects made up of 100 percent women. Campaign materials that focus on the empowerment of women can be found at heifer.org/wild
Of course, if a group wants to support the campaign, but their emphasis is something other than women (and we already are aware of a number of these events), that's fantastic, as well. All of Heifer's projects need support.
We are asking people putting on any kind of event this spring, whether in their home or in a work place, school or congregation, or supporting the campaign through an online activity (Team Heifer, Team WiLD, "liking" Heifer on Facebook) to post their activity on the online map. This is found at www.heifer.org/wild
Attached is a WiLD Campaign Booklet.pdf that you can use to help us spread the word.
Thanks, so much for your commitment to ending poverty and giving families a new beginning!
Tom Peterson, Senior Director of Innovation
Entrepreneur, visionary Pierre Ferrari named Heifer CEO
Business, social innovator brings 'passionate urgency' to role
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Oct. 28, 2010) - Heifer International - a global nonprofit leader of
sustainable agricultural development for small holder farmers - today named Pierre U.
Ferrari its chief executive officer.
Ferrari, who was born in Africa in 1950 in what was then the Belgian Congo (today the
Democratic Republic of the Congo and from 1971 to 1997 called Zaire), has more than 40
years of business experience, ranging from large consumer package goods organizations
such as Coca-Cola USA to work with socially-oriented organizations like CARE and the
Small Enterprise Assistance Fund.
He succeeds interim CEO Charles Stewart and Heifer's longtime President and former
CEO Jo Luck.more>>
Selecting Project Partners
In considering requests for assistance, Heifer International is concerned that the
Cornerstones for Just and Sustainable Development are addressed. Procedures and criteria for selecting project partners are outlined in the Application Procedure and Partnering with Heifer brochure.
Heifer Foundation reorganizing, relocating
Heifer Foundation announced that it is reorganizing. The decision will better align the Foundation with Heifer International and provide efficiencies and cost savings. Additionally, staff and operations will move from the Foundation's Louisiana Street offices to Heifer's headquarters building at 1 World Avenue.more>>
Cows in Malawi!!! by Sara J. Lane
If you know me, you know how much I love cows, having grown up on a dairy farm and yada, yada, yada... So, I was in cow heaven yesterday when I took a tour of Heifer Internationalís dairy cow project in Mchinji district in the western part of Malawi. The staff at Heifer Malawi were kind enough to set up a very nice tour for me and two of my fellow Peace Corps volunteers, and I canít begin to adequately express how impressed and inspired we were by what we saw.
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Cameroon: Small-scale Dairy Cattle Farming;
Heifer's Assistance Raises Incomes By 50 Per cent
Hundreds of dairy cattle farmers from West and North West regions received support of FCFA 852 million in 5 years [FCFA 656 = 1 Euro]. More than 200 families from the North West and West regions whose dairy cattle farming activities are supported by the charity, Heifer Project International, Cameroon, have seen their annual household incomes increased by at least 50 per cent in 5 years. According to a recent evaluation report of the impact of Heifer's Smallholder Dairy Development Programme for the period July 2004 to December 2009, all of the 404 supported farmers realized a cumulative gross income of FCFA 456,822,600 from project activities.
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Heifer reports pastures greening back up
LITTLE ROCK ó After a year in which Heifer International shed more than 20 percent of its global work force in response to a drop in donations, officials at the hunger-relief organization say they have evidence that brighter days are ahead.
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Jo Luck Co-Winner of World Food Prize
Heifer International President Jo Luck named co-recipient of The World Food Prize for her work through Heifer to ensure availability and sustainability of food to people in need around the world. She shares the prize with David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World and one of the foremost U.S. advocates for hungry people. more>>
For Poor Households in Rwanda, One Cow Makes A Difference |
