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News Updates
| Press Release - Heifer International Nepal Launches Goat and Diary Project
January 19, 2012 — News
KATHMANDU, Nepal (Jan. 20, 2012) - Heifer International is launching a new goat and dairy project in Nepal, aiming to assist 138,000 small-scale farmers. The $23.8 million project will be called “Strengthening Smallholder Enterprises of Livestock Value Chain for Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth in Nepal.” read more |
| | ICRC Heifer seal the deal for a second project
October 19, 2011 — News
On September 15, 2011, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Heifer Nepal on behalf of Heifer International at Heifer Nepal's office in Kathmandu. Dr. Shubh Narayan Mahato, country director of Heifer Nepal, and Mr. Jerome Fontana, deputy head of delegation of ICRC, signed the MOU on behalf of their respective organizations. read more |
| | Poverty Alleviation Fund and Heifer Nepal sign MoU
October 19, 2011 — News
29 August 2011
Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) and Heifer International Nepal (Heifer) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today to synergize their efforts in the grassroots and at a national level to work together towards achieving the common goal of ensuring the opportunities of the disadvantaged and alleviating poverty in Nepal. The Vice Chairperson of PAF, Vidhyadhar Mallik presided over the event while Raj Babu Shrestha, Executive Director for PAF and Dr. Shubh N. Mahato, Country Director for Heifer signed the MoU. read more |
| | Anywhere leaders of Heifer and the world
August 31, 2011 — News
Traits of The Anywhere Leader: driven for progress, sensationally curious and vastly resourceful applies to leaders in rural Nepal and the leaders who lead the most successful companies in the US and the world. Leadership – says Mike, the CEO of SVI who also authored another book on leadership, The Organizational Champion - is primarily about the mindset. read more |
| | Heifer’s match promotes community fundraising for development
August 31, 2011 — News
The Minister for Education and Culture handed a fund of 2,064,174 Nepalese Rupees (approx 28,276 US Dollar) to Heifer’s project families in the District of Nuwakot. The money had been matched by Heifer International. Families involved in the projects implemented by local NGO partners CARDSN, WFC and SSS had collected the fund with contributions from their own group fund, local schools, government line agencies and public donations.
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| | Heifer’s women led co-operative union marks new hopes
August 31, 2011 — News
Heifer's District Social Entrepreneurs’ Cooperative Union of Chitwan and Nawalparasi held their first general assembly. Chairing the event was Keshav Baral, the President of National Cooperative Union, who said, “These unions will contribute in changing the social standing of the women through social entrepreneurship while concurring to the norms and values of cooperatives for a better Nepal.”
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| | More than business as usual
August 31, 2011 — News
These cooperatives have geared themselves to be true to the ideology of a cooperative - to serve the community first. Twenty two of these cooperatives are now fully functional in the districts of Chitwan, Nawalparasi, Kathmandu, Sarlahi, Rautahat, Morang and Mohattari. And they already are voicing their community’s needs, building a rapport with local governments and other resource providers and eventually earning their trust. read more |
| | Former Prime Minister Passes on the Gift
March 28, 2011 — News
Former Prime Minister and politician, Madhav Kumar Nepal attended a Passing on the Gift ceremony in Rautahat - where he helped a project participant pass on an offspring of the buffalo she had received from Heifer a little more than a year ago, to another poor and needy family. read more |
| | Heifer CEO, Pierre Ferrari in Nepal
March 28, 2011 — News
The CEO's trip started off in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal and took the CEO and his team through Janakpur, in the Eastern part of the country to Chitwan in the central plains where he met with project families, their children and the community. He also interacted with the newly formed Heifer's cooperatives whose plans for the future matched with what the CEO had envisioned for Heifer. read more |
| | Heifer International President Jo Luck visits Nepal
December 08, 2010 — News
Jo Luck was in Nepal from 1 to 4 December as a part of a field visit to contribute to the writing of a book about Heifer and its work around the world. Heifer International’s President Jo Luck visited an ethnic Tamang community’s Passing on the Gift ceremony on a windy ledge. In Jhor, outside of the city, Jo Luck participated in an interaction program with the women. Amongst other things they talked of the hopes and aspirations for the future and Heifer had given them the platform to make them come true. Jo Luck also visited the homes of some. read more |
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