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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
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.
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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