As Members and partners of InterAction, the largest alliance of U.S.-based NGOs that implement and advocate for U.S. humanitarian, health, development, and democracy programs, we welcome the...
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As Members and partners of InterAction, the largest alliance of U.S.-based NGOs that implement and advocate for U.S. humanitarian, health, development, and democracy programs, we welcome the...
New Research Reveals Alarming Drop in Farmer Incomes in Uganda Heifer International study of over 400 smallholder farmers in Uganda reveals 97% have seen incomes reduced due to COVID-19. By Heifer...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – More than 4,300 animals have been treated in northeastern Haiti at mobile clinics set up by Heifer International and the Ministry of Agriculture in the wake of Hurricane Irma...
KATHMANDU, Nepal – Working with local governments and farmers’ cooperatives, Heifer International has provided relief supplies to 11,000 families recovering from flooding that has ravaged Nepal’s...
Severe flooding is devastating Nepal’s main food-producing region, swamping farm fields, sweeping away thousands of livestock and displacing families. The disaster is threatening to cause a serious...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (July 27, 2016) – Heifer Nepal is assessing damage to project sites in Midwestern Nepal after heavy rainfall triggered mudslides and flooding there. The flooding comes just a little...
Heifer International is one of six development organizations featured in the Hilton Prize Coalition documentary, “On Shifting Ground.” The film highlights disaster relief efforts following the...
More than 100 humanitarian agencies call for immediate and sustained access in Syria. As the parties to the conflict in Syria resume talks to end a war that now enters its sixth horrific year, there...
More than 120 humanitarian organizations and United Nations agencies issued a joint appeal today urging the world to raise their voices and call for an end to the Syria crisis and to the suffering...
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Heifer International has received a $1.5 million grant to help fund phase two of the RISE-UP: Resilience Initiatives through Sustainable Enterprises and Upgrade of Community Preparedness project. The...
APRIL 25, 2015 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Heifer Nepal staff reported safe, working to report on families affected LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Apr. 25, 2015) – A 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal Saturday has...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Initial reports from Heifer International’s Philippines office state that all Heifer project families are safe after Typhoon Hagupit, but many have reported damage to homes, crops...
As an African, few things ruffle my feathers more than the fact that Africans get reduced so often to a bunch of statistics. African farmers, specifically, who are the people I most often come across...
AUGUST 19, 2014 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Days of continuous rainfall has caused major flooding in parts of India and Nepal and the rising waters are beginning to affect Heifer project areas in the latter of...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. At 5:27 p.m. on April 10, 2014, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake centered near Lake Managua in Nicaragua occurred. The earthquake was felt throughout the country, but the most affected...
Nearly 800 Heifer International farming families are being affected by heavy rainfall and damaging floods in the northern regions of Bolivia, according to Heifer Bolivia Country Director Danial...
Heifer Disaster Training Credited with Saving Lives An assessment team from Heifer Philippines made contact with Heifer farmers in Ormoc, Calubian and Leyte reporting no loss of life from project...
Heifer Team Safe and En-Route to Central Region to Assess Damage Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Yolanda, made landfall last week, bringing wind speeds higher than 230 mph and a storm...
LITTLE ROCK, AR Nearly 40 Heifer International project families and some of their animals were moved to higher ground near main roads in Prey Veng province, Cambodia, Wednesday as flood waters there...
Recent heavy rains in Cambodia have caused flooding of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers affecting several provinces and Heifer farmers near the rivers, Heifer Cambodia Country Director Keo Keang...