World Ark Magazine - May/June 2008 - (Page 43)

Heifer Bulletin News From The Field Isa’s HOPE Shtutica Village, Drenas, Kosovo— Sporting a shiny blue track suit and a well-worn soccer ball under his arm, Isa Ademi, 9, emerged from behind a rusty tractor and proudly led the way to the new barn and his mother’s cow. “My mom milks her every day and I drink it!” Isa said as he stroked the animal behind her ear. “She is very calm, she does not want to hurt anyone.” Isa’s mother, Ajete Ademi, received the Holstein-Friesian in 2007 as part of a Heifer project to replenish sheep and cattle in Shtutica Village in the northern part of kosovo. Shtutica suffered tremendously in 1999 when Serbian militia attacked and families lost the animals they relied on killed 76 men. for food and money. Some estimate that Isa’s grandmother, Fata Ademi, 69, 70 percent of the livestock in kosovo were remembers the day nine years ago when killed during the fighting. But as beneficiathe old barn burned as Serbian soldiers ries of a pregnant heifer, Isa’s family looks stormed the village. The family lost not forward to earning money again by selling only its barn, but also the supply of corn milk and breeding calves. stored inside. On that same day, Fata lost Many share this family’s hope. Through her son, and Isa lost his father. training, gift animals and the gradual reharebuilding and recovery are difficult bilitation of small farms, Heifer kosovo is for this family and many others who barely helping to secure a stable future for Isa and scrape by on less than $1.50 a day. Many others in Shtutica village. Photo and story by Geoff Oliver Bugbee Nine-year-old isa Ademi and his family received a cow from Heifer Kosovo in August 2007. They are one of many families struggling to rebuild after the war. Disabled Russian Children Get NUTRITION BOOST Natalia Ivanovna has a special talent for making cheese. She also has a kind heart. So when the Russian woman began working at a rehabilitation center for disabled children in Nikolskoe Village near Moscow, she wanted to use her skills to improve the children’s health. A kind volunteer helped her build a cow shed at the center, but the shed stood empty because she had no animals. Luckily, Heifer International soon called on Ivanovna and packed her shed with 10 heifers, 10 ewes, one ram and one horse. The rehabilitation center also got 10 beehives to put on its new farm. Because she was raised on a farm, Ivanovna quickly started teaching the children how to care for their new animals. She also taught them how to tend the vegetables planted on the center’s small farm. Today, the animals provide the children with much-needed protein from their milk, and the horse is helping staff and residents keep the farm in good working order. www.heifer.org May/June 2008 | WOrlD Ark 43 http://www.heifer.org

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World Ark Magazine - May/June 2008 Contents Letters For the Record The Good Life Asked & Answered Why Water Matters The Carbon Hoofprint From Farm to Table Healing History Mixed Media Heifer Spirit Heifer Bulletin World Ark Market Calendar First Person

World Ark Magazine - May/June 2008

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