66. MissionCast - Heifer International - Nepal

What most people know about Heifer International is that it is an organization that gives animals to impoverished families to provide a source of extra income. Many people also know that through a program called "the passing on of the gift" each improvised family that receives animals pass on the first off springs of their animals to other impoverished family. It is a gift that keeps on giving. What this Heifer International video illustrates is that Heifer International does a whole lot more. Everywhere they work they provide education with the goal of making families and communities self-reliant. Basanti in this video is given the education she needs to care of the medical needs of the animals in her community. The service that she performs gives her the confidence she needs to set her horizon on becoming a veterinarian doctor.

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[freshfournier]

@SaganAppreciationSoc - You are lacking knowledge & very misinformed. The UN is one of the most corrupt and inefficient con jobs in modern times, masquarading as a humanitarian organization. If we could dismantle the UN & distribute the money via Heifer Intl animals, a huge # of people would be lifted out of poverty. Probably dramatically more than the UN has ever helped. Do your own homework - study real science & economics.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Heifer Intnl is a nice thought at first glance, but it's a disaster. Processing plant foods through animals wastes biomass, nutrients, energy, not to mention water and less-obvious resources. Even the UN is admitting that animal agriculture projects like Heifer causes more problems than it solves.

Search for the UN Food and Agriculture Organizations's report titled: Livestock's Long Shadow

Better to replace topsoil to grow food for humans than livestock.

Also see: watch?v=1AvqVJm450w