World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008 - (Page 28)

this year, we’re offering you a new way to end hunger and poverty—with a selection of heifer projects from around the world. When you choose to fund a project, you decide where to invest your gift. You pick the projects that are most important to you. You decide how you’d like to change the world for the better. A New Way to Give Hope: Heifer Project Funding Fund an Entire Project or a Share of a Project: $500, $250, $150 Ukraine Helping Rural Families in Turka Region Funding Goal: $233,810 Your gift in support of this comprehensive project will help provide rural families in the villages of Borynia and Komarnyky with sustainable futures through cattle and pig farming or beekeeping. This project includes: • Simmental heifers • Bee packages • Pigs Initially, partner families will receive livestock and training and then additional families will benefit from “passing on the gift.” Your project support includes veterinary medicines and an education and production center where trainings can be conducted on small scale product processing, both for participants and the community at large. Poland Agriculture and Tourism Development Project Funding Goal: $237,066 Located in the “Eastern Carpathian” International Biosphere Reserve, all agricultural production in the villages of Rymanów Spa, Dylagowa, and Pobiedno is subject to environmental laws and must be sustainable. This project includes: • Bee packages • Simmental heifers • Tourism development activities to prepare youths to lead recreational tours to the Bieszczady Mountains Through pass-ons, this project will improve the living conditions of several rural families. China Cuomei Tibetan Community Development Project Funding Goal: $193,000 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. This project includes: • Yellow cattle • Female yaks (the region’s traditional draft animal) • Training in livestock care • Publication of a Tibetanlanguage veterinary technological book • Solar power system to support environmental protection 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. Through this project, families across 80 communities will improve their food security by diversifying their farm production and adopting sustainable farming practices. Family income will increase by supporting micro-enterprise activities for commercialization in local markets. Sustainable community development activities will incorporate Heifer’s values-based methodology and training in organizational strengthening. This project includes: • Sustainable livestock and agroecological practices Honduras Southern Honduras Project Funding Goal: $2,172,395 Funding a project makes a great holiday or wedding gift because the happy couple can take pride in knowing that the gift is helping families to grow and thrive, just like their family. Other people fund projects at graduation time to symbolize the bright new futures that lay ahead for both graduates and the communities you help. And still others choose to fund a project after returning from a trip abroad where they witness hunger and poverty firsthand. No matter what the occasion, funding a project is the perfect way to celebrate. 28 TO ORDER YOUR GIFT CALL 877-448-6437

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World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008 Contents Letters For the Record The Good Life Asked and Answered Finding Peace in Africa Sierra Leone on the Mend The Roma: A People Apart Mixed Media Heifer Bulletin Heifer Spirit Calendar First Person

World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008

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