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Insights from Heifer projects and our work with partners to catalyze local solutions for global impact.

6 Ways Heifer India Promotes Biosecurity
A ladle pours an orange disinfectant liquid into a pair of hands.

Announcements

6 Ways Heifer India Promotes Biosecurity

Amid a national medicine shortage, Heifer India farmers are turning to local, low-cost alternatives to keep themselves and their flocks disease-free.

Stronger Together: Mexican Women Form Poultry Cooperative, Lower Collective Costs
Four smiling women and one man stand side by side around a table, on which sits a crate of chicken eggs.

Announcements

Stronger Together: Mexican Women Form Poultry Cooperative, Lower Collective Costs

In Oaxaca, Mexico, five tenacious poultry farming women realized they could increase sales and decrease costs if they banded together. So, with...

Gender-Based Violence Survivor Launches Thriving Poultry Business in Kenya
A Kenyan man and woman stand next to each other, each holding and inspecting a chicken.

Equality

Gender-Based Violence Survivor Launches Thriving Poultry Business in Kenya

After 17 years of domestic abuse, Lilian Ocholla is now committed to building a better future for herself and her children. With the support of...

How Heifer Prevents Zoonotic Diseases, Improves Animal Well-Being
An Indian woman kneels down next to her flock of chickens.

Animals

How Heifer Prevents Zoonotic Diseases, Improves Animal Well-Being

Now a full year into the pandemic, mitigating the risk of animal-to-human disease transmission is more important than ever – and this effort is...

Going Remote: Kenyan Mobile Technology Solutions Improve the Dairy Value Chain
Going Remote: Kenyan Mobile Technology Solutions Improve the Dairy Value Chain .

Announcements

Going Remote: Kenyan Mobile Technology Solutions Improve the Dairy Value Chain

Heifer Kenya is partnering with mobile tech companies to ensure that even the most isolated farmers and dairy cooperatives have access to the...

Living Her Dream: Soap Business Success Financially Empowers Woman in Rural Ghana
Living Her Dream: Soap Business Success Financially Empowers Woman in Rural Ghana.

Announcements

Living Her Dream: Soap Business Success Financially Empowers Woman in Rural Ghana

For most women in rural Ghana, financial empowerment remains an elusive reality. This was certainly the case for Rose Yeboah, until she joined the...

Community Chicken Vaccinator Earns Income, Hatches Hope in India
Geeta Rani Jena receives vaccination supplies from a pharmacist in her local village center in Odisha, India. Photo by Pranab K. Aich/Heifer International

Equality

Community Chicken Vaccinator Earns Income, Hatches Hope in India

A community vaccinator is an essential animal healthcare worker who provides low-cost chicken vaccines and deworming treatments to poultry farmers....

Breaking Barriers with the Beauty Business in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala
A Guatemalan woman wearing a traditional top embroidered with flowers stands in the entrance to a salon with her arms folded. She is smiling.

Equality

Breaking Barriers with the Beauty Business in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala

Salon owner Maria Nataly Mendoza Quieju is working hard to challenge the stereotype that women in Guatemala can’t earn their own income. With...