Heifer International

Nicole Kuester

25,000 people die due to hunger or hunger-related causes every day.

(Percent of Poverty by Country)

Poverty Defined

• A worldwide epidemic that deprives people of basic needs such as food, water, shelter and clothing.

• Though the problem is not a lack of any of these things

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”Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery

and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings

Nelson Mandela

Extreme Global Poverty • Water- 768 million people lack access to clean water which

leads to 3.4 million deaths every year.

• Health- Of the 35 million people living with AIDS, 67% live in Sub Sahara Africa and lack access to sufficient health services.

• Education- 58 million children who should be in primary school are not.

• Women- Every two minutes a woman dies due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth.

• Human Trafficking -Almost 30 million people are enslaved.

• Hunger-Over 3million children under the age of five die every year due to malnutrition

Cycle of Poverty

Hunger

Weakness/Sickness

Less Able to Provide for Self

Help or Death

• Those in poverty have the least access to education, health services and representation, furthering the destructive cycle.

• Children are most affected by poverty

• Once a person or group enters poverty it is extremely difficult for them to get out.

Poverty can become global due to:

• global policies• Corruption• Institutions• Multinational corporations• Influential people

For two Americans the poverty level is $14,570 a year, before

tax

$1,214 a month for a couplerent, food, health care, clothing, utilities,

transportation, taxes, insurance, savings and personal expenses

Not all Help is Helpful

• Food aid can lead to shattered economies and in the long term more hunger and poverty, except in the case of emergency relief.

• When food is given under cost or even free, farmers are forced into debt, unable to sell their crops.

Results

• This leads to greater dependence and food dumping from wealthy aiding countries who are able to use the food assistance as a dominance tool for control.

• Those who need aid the most are not the ones who receive it due to reasons such as corruption, difficult terrain and conditions where overpriced goods must be used by the impoverished.

Long Term Solutions are Essential

Stop Dependency

Empower othersand strive for sustainability

Heifer International

The History

• Dan West was a Midwest farmer who helped aid refugees in the Spanish Civil War.

• Each person received the ration of a cup of milk a day

• West believed that to provide cows was attainable and far more beneficial

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• Families in areas of longstanding poverty are provided a useful animal or animals and provided training

• Each animal serves multiple purposes

• Offspring are passed on to the community

Heifers Provide

Milk Breeding

Manure Meat

Video:Alton Brown Explains How Heifer Passes on

the Gift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDIedFMSN64

Gift Packages

• Cows• Water buffalos• Goats• Pigs• Llamas• Chickens

• Sheep• Fish • Bees • Ducks• Rabbit

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ValuesCommunity Benefit

• “Passing on the Gift”• Business Growth• Schools Established

Self - Reliance

• Training• Income • Growth

The Impact So Far• Donations have 9x’s the impact

• 22.6 million families have been helped

• 114.9 million men, women and

children

What You Can Do

• Give or get the gift of life

• Employer matching gifts program

• Fundraising

• Spread the Word

• half of the world’s children live in poverty

• Sanitation, nutrition, education, sustainability and empowerment can possible for all

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”If you cannot feed a hundred people then

feed just one

Mother Theresa

Change is up to Us