tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981429347412351672011-08-18T08:43:21.037-07:00Heifer Foundation envisions a sustainable world where hunger and poverty no longer exist. Its mission is to partner with people in the global movement to end hunger and poverty and care for the Earth. Heifer Foundation offers a variety of planned charitable giving instruments that provide individuals from all walks of life the ability to help themselves, their loved ones, and a world in great need.End Hunger And Povertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330612771827082772noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698142934741235167.post-33035618862787985772010-08-19T14:18:00.000-07:002010-08-24T07:07:12.859-07:00

Tonya visits with Maasai women during a planning session for their Heifer project, which focuses on integrated livestock assistance and gender equity initiatives.  By Tonya Toney After traveling over 5,000 miles, I arrived in Tanzania with my stomach full of butterflies, anxious and excited about my first visit to a foreign land. I couldn’t believe it I was in Africa. Being an African American,

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In the village of Nambala, Tonya shows two girls where she is from on a globe. After the girls’ family received a cow and training from Heifer International, they were able to pay fees to attend school with the additional income. In the village of Olbabal, a camel project has enabled families to pay school fees for their children. The Maasai people that live here have utilized camels due to

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I visited a village just outside the northern city of Arusha, Tanzania where Heifer International has introduced an integrated livestock program with cows, goats and chickens. The women of the Ekenywa tribe, adorned in beaded necklaces, welcomed our group with a traditional dance. A Maasai woman with a cow she received in 2007. She has been able to provide for her children and buy household

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Our own Tonya Toney is on a study tour in Tanzania visiting Heifer International projects that are helping families become self sufficient through education, training and livestock. She will be posting her thoughts and photos from the field during the coming week.  "What an amazing first day of project visits, I'm still processing all that I saw, heard and felt. The people have such a beautiful

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (June 8, 2010) The Heifer Foundation Board of Trustees has named Domingo Barrios as the new president and chief executive officer of the nonprofit organization dedicated to helping end hunger and poverty through planned charitable giving. “The Board of Trustees and the staff of Heifer Foundation are very excited about having Domingo Barrios as our new president and CEO,” said

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The Thais That Bind, Pt. 2Experience in Rural Thailand Tribal Village Evokes Shared Humanityby Shannon Boshears(This is part two of a series that started last month. To read part one, click here.) We sang through each verse featuring a different animal in each one. We mimicked the cow, the chicken and the pig, and with each verse, we followed it with the animal sounds we had learned early in

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Experience in Rural Thailand Tribal Village Evokes Shared Humanity by Shannon Boshears (This is part one of a two part series that will conclude next month.) We were about three miles from arriving at our first project visit in the mountainous region of Northern Thailand when the fear caved in on me like an emotional avalanche. I was abandoning life as I knew it – never having been without

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Cyprian's mother (left) and these orphans have both benefited from the dairy project in Vekovi.An elderly woman in a brilliant pink blouse handed me a photo of herself that was taken when she was recovering in a hospital bed. This gift was her way of thanking Heifer for her life-saving operation. Her son, Cyprian Lukong, had struggled for years to make a living wage to care of his family, just as

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It was an opportunity to travel outside of the country for the first time, and, more importantly, experience first hand the life-changing work of an organization dedicated to ending hunger and poverty.Pat Brower, human resources manager for Heifer Foundation, traveled to the east African nation of Mozambique in October of 2008 for a study tour through the projects of Heifer International, an

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It was the barren dirt yards dotted with small patches of flowers that brought Dorothy Graham back to the Delta of her youth. Mozambique is more than 9,000 miles away from her childhood home in Marvell, Arkansas, yet the living conditions brought back a flood of memories and established for her an instant connection with the people and the land.“They use hoes to cut their grass, so their yards

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Congress has taken important steps to protect America’s financial system while also encouraging additional charitable giving. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 may offer you new opportunities for tax-free charitable giving this year and next. This law includes incentives for those 70 ½ years of age and older who would like to make charitable gifts from potentially taxable

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Hope Equity, the online giving tool that Heifer Foundation unveiled in 2007, has recently undergone a dramatic upgrade to better serve our donors, organizations and all those committed to ending hunger and poverty and caring for the Earth. This is the Hope Equity that we had envisioned from the beginning and we are excited to share it with you. We have listened to and worked with our members,

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The catastrophic earthquake May 12, in China's Sichuan Province has left many of the Heifer International project areas in utter ruin. In Heifer’s Guangyuan project in Baichao Township alone, of the 1,600 families participating in the project, 1,500 farms suffered collapsed buildings and 90 percent of those families are now homeless. Heifer’s China office estimated losses of the farmers in that

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Heifer International is waiting on further details on how the recent natural disasters in Myanmar and China have affected the field projects in those countries. As of late last week, Heifer International received word from its field office in Thailand, which oversees Heifer's work in Myanmar, that there had been no reports of serious damage or injury. Even though some of the projects were in

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Hope Equity will be exhibiting at GOOD Magazine's Celebration Party to be held Wednesday, March 12 in Austin, TX at the SxSW Festival. For more information on the event, click here to visit http://www.goodmagazine.com/events/austin08.Come talk to us and get a free Hope Equity bamboo t-shirt!

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The women of Achoubong Group in Bafou, Cameroon sing a song thanks and safe journey to the Heifer Cameroon staff and I.Days 6-8January 6We traveled an hour and a half to the hilltop village of Bafou. It is a much more pleasant climate in the Western Highland province than in the more southern provinces of Cameroon. We arrived first at Martha Nandog’s home where I sat on a bench outside and spoke

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A short film on Cyprian Lukong, a dynamic leader in Vekovi, Cameroon.Day 5February 5Excerpt from an e-mail I sent to my family, friends and co-workers late that night:"Where to start? This has been a really unforgettable experience so far. Overwhelming some days. I have seen SO much of Cameroon in only four whole days. I travel anywhere from 3 to 6 hours every day. All of the projects/villages we

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A young boy eats bread outside the AJEN Group's meeting house.Day 4February 4In the village of Namba, near the town of Manjo, is where we visit the Association des Jeunes de Namba, or AJEN Group. Namba is in a French-speaking province, so an interpreter, Rochelle, has come along with Humphrey, Hilda and I. This stop is a little less than half way to Bamenda, where Heifer Cameroon’s headquarters

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Here is what I look like in front of the Heifer Cameroon offices in Douala.Day 3February 3I have now been here a little more than 50 hours and I am almost at a loss for words when trying to describe my experience so far. Today was a wonderful day spent exploring the botanical gardens near the ocean, swimming in the ocean, and relaxing on a rust-colored beach. Humphrey grew up in Limbe and said he

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A shantytown at the edge of the tea plantations in Tole'.Cameroon: Days 1-2January 31 or February 1Currently, I am just off the eastern seaboard, somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, unsure of the exact date and time after a brief nap. I’m guessing the date is the still the former, as the eight-hour flight departed just a few hours ago.So this is it: A trip into the unknown. This is the very thing

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Children gathered outside Dzewka Multi Purpose Farmer's Society meeting room in Vekovi, Cameroon.Today was supposed to be the start of my daily journal from Cameroon (not in real time as we initially planned, as the amount of time I spent in the field made that impossible). Over this past weekend, I received an e-mail message that stated: “There was a serious strike in Cameroon, which grounded

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This documentary trailer, “Legacies,” is about Umaru Sule, who’s village in Cameroon was a Heifer project recipient after a natural disaster struck in 1986 killing everyone in his village and his entire family. Sule speaks of how he rose from these tragic events to gain an education and eventually work at Heifer International to affect a positive change in his Philadelphia community and

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Jeremy Glover, writer for Heifer Foundation and Hope Equity, will be visiting Cameroon in Africa during Feb. 2008. While he's there, he'll be sending in his journals and pictures from the field to this blog. Subscribe to this blog now so you can get all the updates!

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