World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008 - (Page 29)

to improve food security and income • Improved nutrition by providing access to local, affordable, nutritious food and training in food preparation and conservation • Commercialization of agroecological products in local markets • Training to build the capacity of local farmer and community organizations Romania Carpathian Project Funding Goal: $1,258,958 highest poverty rates due to unsustainable agriculture practices and disease among their animals. This project will bring relief to these people through educational programs in livestock disease-control techniques. This project includes: • Cattle • Sheep • Goats Nepal Sustainable Community Development Project Funding Goal: $380,000 This five-year effort will improve the lives of many families living in poverty in Zambia. These families are displaced mine workers facing high unemployment rates and food shortages. Through the work of this project Heifer will not only provide the lifesaving livestock these families need, but also provide them with valuable agroecology skills and training in marketing and sustainable agriculture. With your project support, these families will have a sustainable food and income supply, and will be able to share their success with other families through passing on the gift. This project includes: • Cattle • Goats Tanzania Natural Resource Management Project Funding Goal: $333,875 In the northeast region of Tanzania, hundreds of families are facing extreme hardships due to low incomes and a lack of knowledge for caring for the little resources that they have. This project aims to improve the lives for these families by providing them with honeybees and fish fingerlings, plus specialized training in resource management, beekeeping and agroforestry. This project includes: • Honeybees • Fish fingerlings Uganda Eastern Uganda Umbrella Project Funding Goal: $575,149 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. But Heifer’s threeyear Umbrella Project will help to lift these farming families out of poverty by teaching them sustainable farming practices and agromarketing skills so they can improve their circumstances by selling their surplus produce. This project includes: • Goats Please hurry because opportunities to direct gifts to these specific projects are limited. If your request is received after a project is fully funded, your gift will still help families participating in an alternate project. If all projects are fully funded, your gift will go to support the entire mission of Heifer International. This project will create jobs and provide income while fostering traditional activities such as sheep breeding, trout fish production, and lamb fattening in farming communities in the heart of the Romanian Carpathian Mountains. This project includes: • Turcana sheep • Ewes and rams • Trout fish Kenya Livestock Health and Marketing Project Funding Goal: $584,054 The Maasai people of Kenya have some of Africa’s Discrimination, poverty and illiteracy are among the problems that plague the mideastern districts of Nepal. With your generous project support, Heifer will be able to deliver much needed livestock and the training in its care, along with invaluable literacy programs and Heifer cornerstone training to the people of this region. This project includes: • Goats • Water buffalo Zambia Rural Community Development Project Funding Goal: $742,325 WWW.HEIFER.ORG/WORLDARK 29 http://WWW.HEIFER.ORG/WORLDARK

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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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