World Ark Magazine - November/December 2008 - (Page Cover2)

Horizons Perseverance and Hope Dear Friends, Children in the Gicumbi District of Rwanda enjoy better health thanks to a Heifer project. The year 2008 was beset with challenges, but it is through difficulties that the power of the shines brightest. human spirit “Their trouble is also ours.” In the true spirit of Heifer’s mission, he passed on the gift to do what he could to help those who lost everything. And so have you, and families around the world thank you. Despite this year’s unsteady economic landscape, Heifer International has enjoyed many blessings. Because of the support of friends like you, we have been able to budget an increase in funding for International Programs in fiscal year 2008. We have opened new country programs around the world, including in Malawi, Georgia, Slovakia and Sierra Leone, which you can read about on Page 20. The East Africa Dairy Development project officially launched in July, and the importance of agriculture and the eradication of poverty are gaining attention on the global stage. Heifer looks forward to many good things in 2009. We will open two new learning centers—the Murphy Keller Reflecting on this calendar year, I have Education Center adjacent to our world been saddened by the earthquake that headquarters building in Little Rock, devastated China, the cyclone that whirled Ark., and a facility at California’s Hidden destruction upon Myanmar, the Villa, set in the Santa Cruz Mountains—in international conflicts that continue to addition to a newly completed Global threaten lives and peace, and the poverty Village at Shepherd’s Spring Outdoor and hunger that still exist in our world. Ministry Center in Maryland. These But I have also been touched by the love developments will enable even more and unity I have seen displayed time and people to learn about the global causes of again around the globe. I truly believe that and solutions to hunger and poverty, while 2009 will be a year of hope and action. inspiring them to take meaningful action. I visited Heifer China just two weeks The year 2008 was beset with challenges, before the earthquake that wreaked havoc but it is through difficulties that the power in the Sichuan Province in May, and it of the human spirit shines brightest. Join seemed impossible to me when I heard me in honoring a year of perseverance and the news of the disaster. But what did not strength as we anticipate an amazing new surprise me was the reaction of Heifer year of possibilities, peace and hope. project partners, who immediately moved to assist those most directly affected by the disaster. Take Zhu Yuntao for example, who said, “Heifer helped us, and now it’s our duty to help those who are suffering Jo Luck from the earthquake.” Another individual President and CEO said so much with a simple statement: Front Cover: Lenny Kalusa, 7, hugs her family’s goat in Mika Village in Zambia’s Central Province. Photo by Jake Lyell Photo by Geoff Oliver Bugbee

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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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