Heifer International Foundation was founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1944 by Dan West with the support of The Church of Brethren. West, a Midwest farmer, had served as a relief worker in the Spanish Civil Wars. During this time, West was exposed to the extreme poverty and hunger which many refugees experienced. It shocked and unsettled him that refugees received only one cup of milk as a day’s meal rations. He knew that he needed to help these families. Inspired by the proverb of, “if you teach a man to fish”, Dan West decided that one possible solution to this crisis could be to give cows to these families. This would allow them to have not one cup of milk, but many. Thus, Heifer International was conceived with the mission, “To work …show more content…
The organization now recognizes that social change must occur in order to overcome the innate, underlying issues which keep people from overcoming hunger and poverty. Heifer International aims to increase social capital by targeting major areas of social injustice such as: gender equity, the empowerment of women, educational opportunities, and training people to preserve the environment. By addressing these issues, the organization hopes to promote, “the transformation of communities and their people so they lead happier, healthier and more productive lives” (Charity Ending Hunger and Poverty, …show more content…
The organization maximizes its effectiveness by individualizing each work site’s goals to meet the unique needs of each community. However, there are 12 principles which Heifer international tries to uphold at each worksite. The twelve principles include: passing on the gift, accountability, sharing and caring, sustainability and self-reliance, improved animal management, nutrition and income, gender and family focus, genuine need and justice, improving the environment, full participation, training and education and spirituality (Charity Ending Hunger and Poverty, 2014). Perhaps most central to the doctrine of Heifer International is the idea of passing it on. Each family who receives a gift of livestock is required to pass on the first female offspring to another family in need and teach them how to properly care for the animal. This allows the beneficiary to become the donor and completes the cycle of giving, thus allowing for the propagation of dignity, hope, and self-reliance (Charity Ending Hunger and Poverty, 2014).
Currently, Heifer International runs under the leadership of CEO Pierre Ferrari. Mr. Ferrari works with five senior vice presidents and a 19 member board of directors to oversee “726 active projects which are utilizing 29 species of plants and animals, in 57 countries and 29 US states with plans to assist directly and indirectly twenty-three
Monsanto Company are a public American multinational agricultural and agrochemical biotechnology corporation who leads in the production of genetically engineered seeds. Founded by John Queeny in 1901, the organization initially produced industrial chemicals such as sulphuric acid and plastics, including polystyrene and synthetic fibres. It was not until 1983, where the company was among the first to genetically modify a plant cell and conduct field trials of genetically modified crops. This scientific breakthrough shifted the company 's corporate focus towards the agricultural industry with the implementation of biotechnology. The company’s primary line of products consist of herbicides and genetically modified seeds.1
Gartner-Denowh Angus Ranch (GDAR) is located just on the outskirts of Sidney, MT, a close-knit family run ranch that focuses on raising efficient and functional cattle bred for the commercial cattle operation. GDAR began in 1957 when Joe Gartner and Russel Denowh bought 20 head of registered Angus cows from a dispersion sale in Montana. In 1974, Denowh and his son, Mickey, bought out Joe Gartner but kept the commercial name. At this time of the GDAR's life, they were calving about 150 cows and selling around 60 bulls per year. Russell's other son, Paul, joined the operation in 1984.
According to Robert Hanvey’s An Attainable Global Perspective, “In summary, we are in a period of transition, moving from a pre-global to a global cognition, Global cognition is characterized by new knowledge in planning human action” (Hanvey, 166). Robert G. Hanvey states that everything that we do will affect our generations in the future. Therefore, it is important to take action if there is an issue in the community. If community members do not take action with their issues and/or leave the issue as it is, the issue will still occur within the next generation and the issue may be way worse than it is now. In this unit, the students will be able to brainstorm in groups and as a class about different ways they can solve the issue of poverty in their community and around the
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The mission of Heifer is to end hunger and poverty while caring for the Earth. Since 1944, they have helped more than 12 million families in more than 125 countries by providing profit-returning livestock and seeds, as well as training in animal well being, agroecology, water quality, gender equity and community development. Heifer guides communities to self-reliance by building holistic programs based on their twelve founding principles, known as the Cornerstones. Heifer relies on the Cornerstones to encourage group wisdom and personal insight, to keep people’s hearts and actions balanced, focused and productive#. Together, the Cornerstones form the acronym PASSING on the GIFTS, which mirrors the most crucial cornerstone of them all.
In 1824 a group of people started to notice all the abuse that was happening to all the animals in England, so they formed the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A man named Henry Bergh saw all the good things that this group was doing in England, so he decided to open one in the United States. In Massachusetts around 1836, there was a law that was passed that stated that there will be no stoning and beating of cattle as week as dog and cockfighting. In 1866 he created a group called the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in New York. This organization helped end the beating to animals, end inadequate food for animals, end poor housing for animals, and humane standards for treatment of animals used for vivisection. After his success...
One such approach is taken by Food Not Bombs (FNB). Food Not Bombs was first formed in Massachusetts in the 1980’s by anti-nuclear activists and has since rapidly spread across the globe. Using food that would otherwise be thrown away, the organization serves free vegetarian meals in public spaces to the homeless, poor and anyone else in need. What differentiates Food Not bombs from other charities that address hunger is that it is not defined solely as an organization, but also as a social movement with a political identity. This duality is evident in its very name whic...
Like many other industries, the farming industry has evolved into big business, “Animals on factory farms are regarded as commodities to be exploited for profit.” In each industry from clothing to instruments, the bosses want to make a profit. The more they can supply with the least amount of waste, the more profit they make. The same goes for factory farming. However instead of humans being the ones directly affected by big bosses, the animals are. They don’t have a voice, and can’t stand up for what is right or wrong. These animals are manipulated in every way to make a better profit. Factory farms mass produce animals for ...
Social Justice is about making society function better – providing the support and tools to help turn lives around. This is a challenging new approach to dealing with poverty in all its forms. It is not about income poverty alone. Throughout this essay I will explore why poverty is a primary issue when striving for Social Justice and how, we as professionals, can attempt to overcome this by working together to achieve a fairer, more just society. Social Work, Primary Education and Community Learning and Development are working together collaboratively to achieve Social Justice.
In this world there are many different types of challenges faced but individuals in different countries, as people work together to find a way to stop or solve these challenges there are also some challenges or situations that individuals, even as a group, cannot eliminate. The race to reach conclusions of situations is very desirable and is being worked on very efficiently, but one issue that people have mistaken into accomplishing is hunger. Hungry is present everywhere and not a lot of people can satisfy or fulfil that need. Lack of sanitation, unemployment, and unhealthy diet choices these are involved in an imaginary line called the poverty line. The idea of food banks is a good start into eliminating hungry but the process still has a
The slogan “Give an man a fish…” fetishes notions of self-sufficiency and sustainable development practices in such a way to obscure the potential pitfalls and problematics of such an approach. China Scherz compares two, very different organisations operating in central Uganda . The first, Mercy House, is Franscian mission which follows an ethos of giving to the “needy” indiscriminately and providing for the direct needs of poor and orphaned children . The second, Hope Child adopts the fashionable ethos of “sustainable development” and places emphasis on providing trainings and workshops, and auditing and measuring outcomes . Hope child is popular with donors in the West because it satisfies their beliefs in the importance of empowerment,
Patagonia Inc. is an American clothing company that produces and sells outdoor gear, sports clothing and equipment for men, women and children.
America focuses heavily on its livestock and crops earning us a major role in global trade as a farming nation. Unfortunately this has led to some poor choices in treatment of our animals. Many farmers who believe in animal rights say that it started back when farmers only tended to fewer animals, “Ownership of farm animals became concentrated in fewer hands, and flocks and herds grew larger. As a result, the individuality of animals was lost to their owners and they began receding from most people's everyday life” (Namit 29). When people lost their connection to the animals that provided their food, the quality of the animal's lives began to dramatically decrease. Consumers constantly pushed farmers to their limits with high quotas. To keep up with demands agriculturalists turned to some unorthodox practices to keep costs low and still maintain their annual quotas; “To raise efficiency and cut costs, farm animals began to be engineered for abnormally rapid weight gain, fed unnatu...
Hunger is the most pressing issue we face. One out of every eight people in the world today suffers from chronic undernourishment caused by food scarcity. 19,000 kids die everyday from hunger. The world has more than 1.5 times enough food to feed everyone on this entire planet although with some people making less than two dollars an hour, it is hardly imaginable to be able to. At least the number of people who die everyday of famine is going down every year because more and more people care. We want to keep this number going down not only by the year, but also by the day. If we want this to happen, we have to take action. Now.
“Currently 80% of the world’s agricultural land is used directly or indirectly for animal production. In the US over half the total land mass is used for the production of meat and dairy products” (Clarke).