Heifer International

Heifer International,located in Little Rock is an organization that specializes in the ending of poverty and hunger of rural areas in the world. Their mission is do to do this is by empowering families to turn hunger and poverty into hope and prosperity. Heifer also links communities with each other in order to create sustainable agriculture and commerce to areas with a long history of poverty.Soon,these families begin to gain sustainable incomes,and when this happens,it leads to opportunities that can advance their society.This includes ideas like building new schools, creating agricultural groups,forming community saving systems and forming small businesses. Heifer International was there to help with the clean up in Haiti after the recent hurricane encounter they had.They deployed 120 aid workers to help 6,500 project families,who were affected by the aftermath of hurricane Matthew's destruction. Heifer's immediate goal is to provide food and water treatment tablets for those project families that affected by the storm. Heifer shares partnerships with many businesses,some very common to most people,like Danone yogurt,Starbucks,The MasterCard Foundation,W.K. Kellogg foundation and Walmart. Like Heifer,these partners are also helping create an impact to end global poverty and hunger.For example,Star Bucks,for 40 years,has been dedicated to helping coffee farmers and their families.Heifer's international collaboration with Starbucks began in 2009. When Starbucks CEO,Howard Schultz,visited smallholder coffee farmers in Rwanda. Hearing the farmers heartfelt requests for dairy cows to provide them milk,better nutrition and better income to help provide for their families,Schultz and other Starbucks workers rallied together collaborated ways they could help to provide the farmers with the cows they so desperately needed. By 2014,Heifer was awarded with a Starbucks Foundation grant of $750,000. This money was going to be used to help fund the Mbozi Farmer Live hood improvement Project in Tanzania. This project was established to help provide dairy cows and training to improve live hoods in East Africa. Overall, Heifer International is an engaged and committed organization that feels should be very entitled to ending poverty and helping people in need. This makes me think if I should start my own fundraiser. The idea of helping Haiti does cross my mind. When I was in elementary school,the school had us support a fundraiser to help support Haiti after the earthquake they were in a few years ago. They had a bottle,like the water bottles they have in offices,and we would fill them with pennies that they would use to help clean up.We could do something similar to this,but in a fun and creative way.Then, we can use this money to start a partnership with a school there, help build a school there or even go to the country ourselves and help them with our resources. Haiti goes through so much and it's a problem that can easily be fixed,if there were just more people in the world who cared,these people could be helped.