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Heifer International: passing on the gift.

Publication: UN Chronicle
Publication Date: 01-JUN-04
Format: Online - approximately 751 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Heifer International's approach to humanitarian aid sixty years ago was simple. In the words of founder Dan West: "Not a cup, but a cow." Doling out milk in a relief line after the Spanish Civil War, West realized that the gift of a productive and renewable resource--a cow--would long outlast...

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...a handout. Since Heifer's initial shipments of dairy cows to farmers in war-ravaged countries, the organization has worked with dozens of countries, refining and expanding its work with livestock in communities as a model of humanitarian aid.

Today, small-scale livestock projects are still the basis of Heifer's approach, but its work has taught us something else: the most effective developmental work...

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