This year, we’re offering you a special way to help entire communities – with a selection of Heifer projects from around the world!
When you Fund a Project, you decide how to invest your gift. You pick the projects that are most important to you, and you decide how you’d like to change the world for the better.
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China - Sichuan Earthquake Rebuilding Project -- New
On May 12, 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck China’s Sichuan province. Thousands were killed, and millions were left homeless. Heifer has a long history in this region of China and through this project will help many affected families rebuild their homes and livelihoods.
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Peru - Biodiversity and Agroecology for Food Security -- New
The Puno region of southern Peru has the highest poverty rates in the country, as well as high rates of child malnutrition. Given the area’s harsh climate, farming is difficult and characterized by low yields. This project seeks to help families use agroecology to strengthen food security while preserving the environment.
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Tanzania - Natural Resources Management Project
In northeast Tanzania, families are facing extreme hardships due to low incomes and lack of proper care for existing resources. This project will supply honeybees and fish fingerlings, plus specialized training in resource management, beekeeping and agroforestry.
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Zambia - Rural Community Development Project
This five-year effort will improve the lives of many families living in poverty in Zambia. Providing livestock. agroecology training and marketing support will enable these families to acheive sustainable food and income supplies.
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Uganda - Eastern Uganda Umbrella Project
Eastern Uganda is a region that has known much conflict and poverty. Most families there live on less than $1 per day, barely enough to provide one inadequate meal for an entire family. This three-year umbrella project will help to life these farming families out of poverty.
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China - Cuomei Tibetan Community Development Project
The Tibetan Plateau is one of the most fragile and inhospitable places on the planet. That is why this Heifer project will help impoverished Tibetan households improve economic self-sufficiency while protecting their environment and preserving their culture through Heifer’s values-based community development activities.
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Nepal - Sustainable Community Development Project
This project will assist a total of 1385 families in the Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Palpa Districts of Nepal, which are characterized by widespread poverty, caste discrimination, and illiteracy, among other problems.
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Honduras - Promotion of Food Sovereignty Project
Honduras is the second poorest country in Central America with more than half of the population living in poverty. This project takes place in the southern areas where communities suffer from limited food and income sources caused by extended drought and lack of access to productive resources.
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Romania - Carpathian Project
In the heart of the Romanian Carpathian Mountains, farmer communities are facing many challenges. This project will create jobs and provide income while fostering traditional activities such as local Turcana sheep breeding, trout fish production and lamb fattening.
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Poland - Agriculture and Tourism Development Project
Located in the Carpathian Mountain region of Southeastern Poland, this project will promote sustainable beekeeping, cattle breeding and educational tourism in the neighboring villages of Rymanów Spa, Dylagowa, and Pobiedno.
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Ukraine - Helping Rural Families in Turka Region Project
Through this project, Heifer International will help 110 rural families in the villages of Borynia and Komarnyky improve their knowledge of agricultural production and processing, and green tourism.
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Kosovo - Beekeeping to Stop Poverty and Illiteracy
*Fully Funded*
In the mountainous regions of Kosovo, poverty and illiteracy rates are very high, especially among women. This project is designed to give unemployed women and their families a source of income while providing them reading education.
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Kenya - Kimisha Mwangaza Women's Group Project
*Fully Funded*
This dairy project is owned by the Women’s Group, which is comprised of 36 women, of whom 16 are widows or single mothers.
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Tanzania - North East Zone Dairy Goat Project
*Fully Funded*
A Participatory Rural Appraisal exercise was conducted in these 10 villages to identify priority community needs and areas for assistance. This project will improve nutrition levels, increase income and protect the environment by practicing zero-grazing.
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