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Help fund a project and receive annual progress updates. With Fund a Project you give to the project you select, change the lives of a whole community and see the results your gift produces.
Honduras - Invest in Honduras - $1,500,000 Featured Matching Opportunity
Region: Central America
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This project will assist 5,570 families through three separate projects in Honduras. In addition to providing animals and extensive training on ecological farming, Heifer will also work with community organizations to increase their ability to develop the local economy and indigenous leaders. Read More >>
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India - Sustainable Community Development - New
Region: Asia
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The Sustainable Community Development project will work to organize 120 families into six women's self-help groups. Each family will be provided with two goats, vegetable and fodder seedlings as well as training in Heifer's 12 Cornerstones and animal care.
Nepal - Building Communities for Holistic Development 2 - New
Region: Asia
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This project will assist 9,100 families in the central region of Nepal, which is characterized by widespread poverty, caste discrimination and illiteracy. The 3,200 original project families will receive goats, pigs and water buffalo, along with fodder and vegetable seeds.
Oregon - Eating Garden Veggies, Animal Care, Training and Sharing (EATS) - New
Region: United States
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Village Gardens is an urban agriculture project and will provide holistic leadership and technical training, improved nutrition and outreach. Families involved will receive garden supplies, seeds and starts, vegetables and food.
Honduras - Invest in Honduras - $1,500,000 Matching Opportunity
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This project will assist 5,570 families through three separate projects in Honduras. In addition to providing animals and extensive training on ecological farming, Heifer will also work with community organizations to increase their ability to develop the local economy and indigenous leaders.
Many small farmers in the Piura region of Peru live in poverty. They are completely dependent on the region's ecosystem, which is subject to El Niño floods and drought. During the wet years, trees will be planted, grain storage built, and communal wells improved, to ensure sustainability in the dry years.
Nepal - Building Communities for Holistic Development
Region: Asia
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Working predominately with women's groups, the primary focus of this project is improved nutrition and community development. Project participants will receive training on Heifer Cornerstones, gender equity, values based literacy, vegetable gardening, health and sanitation among other vital skills.
Laos - Promoting Women's Education and Self-Esteem
Region: Asia
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In the mountainous area of Vientiane province, an area with high rates of landmine accidents, Heifer will be partnering with local non-profits to promote sustainable community development. This project will build the capacity of poor women to participate and lead in their communities.
Cambodia - Women's Empowerment and Holistic Community Development
Region: Asia
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A total of 32 self-help groups, made up entirely of women, will be trained in a variety of skills to create sustainable livelihoods. Pigs, poultry and fish and animal health workers to ensure the health of the animals will ensure a brighter future for recipients.
This project will assist 1,170 minority families in nine poor communities in Northern Thailand. Participants will form 55 communities, 20 percent of which will be women-only groups. In addition to animals and resources, this project will create and manage a mill for production of swine feed.
This area of Sierra Leone is characterized by rapid population growth, a high incidence of communicable diseases, and increased pressure on natural resources and physical infrastructure. This project seeks to increase food production, improve nutrition, generate income and increase skill among project participants.
Rwanda - Sustainable Dairy Enterprise Development Project
Region: Africa
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Over 90% of this area of Rwanda engages in subsistence agriculture due to the use of rudimentary agriculture tools. This is one of many problems families face in this region. This project's goal is to ensure food and income security at the household level for 1,200 farm families.
China - Sichuan Earthquake Rebuilding - Matching Opportunity
Region: Asia
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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.
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 achieve sustainable food and income supplies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Based in the Arkansas/Mississippi Delta, this project will work to better the incomes of resource poor farmers by increasing their access to local markets and enabling farmers to add value to their products.
India - Empowering Women's Livelihoods through Community Action - Fully Funded
Region: Asia
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In the Alwar district of Rajasthan, Heifer will be working with the poorest of the poor to better their lives. This project will increase their income, diversify their income sources, improve health practices and increase solidarity.
Latvia - Support of Children's Orphanage - Fully Funded
Region: Europe
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In Gaujiena, a village in northeastern Latvia, more than 10 percent of the population are orphans ages 2 to 18. This project will work with the the Children's Orphanage and the Gaujiena specialized boarding school as well as 24 other families in the Gaujiena area to re-establish economic and civic life.
Honduras - Promotion of Food Sovereignty - Fully Funded
Region: Central America
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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.
Tanzania - Community Based Natural Resource Management - Fully Funded
Region: Africa
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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.
Peru - Biodiversity and Agroecology for Food Security - Fully Funded
Region: South America
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The Puno region of southern Peru has the highest poverty rate in the country, as well as a high rate of child malnutrition. Given the area’s harsh climate, farming is difficult and characterized by low yields. This project seeks to help families use sustainable agriculture to strengthen food security while preserving the environment.
China - Cuomei Tibetan Community Development - Fully Funded
Region: Asia
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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.
Nepal - Sustainable Community Development - Fully Funded
Region: Asia
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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.
Kosovo - Beekeeping to Stop Poverty and Illiteracy - Fully Funded
Region: Europe
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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.
Guatemala - Conservation of the Cahabon River Area - Fully Funded
Region: Central America
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Through the generous support of one donor, Heifer is working to build a sustainable future for families living in the ecologically fragile Guatemalan mountains. Through a large number of generous Heifer supporters this $60,000 match for the Conservation of the Cahabon River Area was met, and the project is now fully funded.
Tanzania - North East Zone Dairy Goats - Fully Funded
Region: Africa
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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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