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15-WA-237V 2015 Holiday World Ark.Indb HOLIDAY 2015 || HEIFER.ORG HEIFER BANGLADESH Dairying Greatly INSIDE THE MOST IMPORTANT GIFT CATALOG IN THE WORLD PLUS HOUSE OF CARDAMOM 12 Life gets sweeter for FOR THE RECORD Guatemalan farmers The spicy side of international trade THE ROAD FROM FARM TO MARKET Harvesting co ee and cream 42 in Tanzania WE’RE ALL FARMERS NOW Good reading in town 52 and country horizons Dear Fellow Activists, s we approach the holiday season, let’s refl ect on the amazing impact Heifer International had A on millions of lives over the past year. As usual, I have been around the world and then some, visiting the families that supporters like you have helped launch on a path to self-reliance. In Guatemala, we are MY TRAVELS working with farmers IN 2015 like Rolando Yat Tut to } Arkansas Delta keep pests away from the } China cardamom harvest and } Mexico supplement family incomes } Nepal with other high-value crops } Rwanda and livestock to close the } South Africa gap between their meager } Thailand incomes and a living income of around $4,174 a year. Pierre Ferrari is welcomed by community In Tanzania, Rahel Mhema and her husband, Steven members in the Nuwakot district of Nepal. PHOTO ALINA BY KARKI Kipagatie, leveraged their 2010 gift of a cow and training to send their children to school, establish an orchard, I hope you will continue to keep our families in your buy more land and plant timber trees, as well as buy a thoughts during this holiday season and that you might motorcycle. Where Mhema once earned around $4 a fi nd an inspiring gift in the enclosed catalog. month working at a tea factory, the family now earns more than $180 a month selling extra milk. Yours for a better world, I’m thankful for support from Heifer friends and donors. At the same time, I am constantly impressed by the level of dedication Heifer farmers give toward improving their livelihoods. Pierre U. Ferrari MY FAVORITE THINGS IN 2015 BOOK In the Company of the Poor by Paul Farmer and Gustavo Gutiérrez CORNERSTONES GIFT Sharing and Caring A Heifer goat: Spirituality versatile, hardy, rapidly profi table table of contents | Holiday 2015 WWW.HEIFER.ORG PAGE 29 THE MOST IMPORTANT GIFT CATALOG IN THE WORLD House of Cardamom Cardamom commands high prices, 12 but spice farmers in Guatemala claim little of the profi t. Pests compound the problem, lowering the quality and price of the crop. Heifer International is working with farmers to change all that. Dairying Greatly 24 in Bangladesh Heifer families are raising cows and goats to capitalize on a huge and growing market for milk and meat. By producing these products in country rather than importing them, Heifer farmers are boosting COVER the economy on scales both large Mohammed Mizamur Rahman, 13, and small. snuggles the animals at his home in Bangladesh’s Boraigram subdistrict. The Road From Top photo: Catalina Chub Caal, 34, Farm to Market and cousin Candelaria Sob Tut, 22, 42 Heifer is working with Starbucks, the sort the good cardamom from the bad with 4-month-old Jonatan Caal Sub. Gates Foundation and other partners to open new opportunities for Cover and top photo by Dave Anderson Tanzanian dairy farmers to thrive. WWW.HEIFER.ORG | 1 letters READERS RESPOND work to forge a balanced structure 50 cents! It was packaged in old rum with other forward-looking bottles with a cork. I saved one of organizations—corporations, those bottles for many years. I do etc.—that struggle, as does Heifer, not know if the honey was from to serve the needs of a growing the stingless bees or not. It is just a population in a shrinking world. wonderful memory of that time in Rather than drawing attention my life. to the downside of larger (and not ANN BLUMENSAADT always better, to be sure) entities, Greenwich, Conn. let’s work together to strengthen the benefi ts available through cooperation, coordination and consolidation. WILLIAM ALDEN LEE Doylestown, Pa. NO EXCUSE Surely the country that borders NICE SHOT! Ecuador to the north is ColOmbia, When I received our copy of the not ColUmbia. Editors involved Fall 2015 World Ark, I had to sit with an international magazine Congratulations to Danielle down and smile at the beautiful should not be making this mistake. Schillere , 13, from New picture of the lovely octogenarian It doesn’t inspire confi dence in Hampshire for winning this Kushi Adhikari cuddling an your professional abilities. year’s kid-friendly honor card art orphaned goat. I was struck by SHELLEY VANCE competition! Danielle received a the joy and love in her face. Fairfax, Va. Heifer gift from her aunt for her More than 30 years ago, we birthday. She drew the hands and donated a goat to Heifer. I would animals to symbolize the giving like to think our donated animal spirit of our donors. found such a loving owner. Editor’s Note: A map on Page Thank you, Lacey West, for 33 misspelled the country of Q&A HOLIDAY capturing such an inspirational Colombia. We apologize for the If you could add any animal picture! embarrassing error. to our gift catalog, which animal RUTH SEBER would you add? Linfi eld, Pa. SWEET MEMORIES OFF BALANCE I enjoyed reading the article on the We want to As a regular contributor to Heifer stingless bees in Yucatan (World International, I support vigorously Ark Summer 2015). I worked for Pan hear from you! your approach to solving problems; American World Airways as a fl ight Please send your comments to however, I must express my attendant, based in Miami, from [email protected]. Include disappointment with the one- 1969 to 1976. On fl ights to Merida we your name, city, and a telephone sided tenor of the land grab articles stayed on the ground at the airport number or email address. Letters on Pages 14-19 of your Fall 2015 for two hours before returning to may be edited for length and edition. Even the illustrations are Miami. I remember that the aircraft clarity, and may be published online as well as in print. Because clearly biased. cleaners would come on board of the volume of mail we receive, It is my emphatic and sell us honey and tortillas. The we cannot respond to all letters. recommendation that Heifer honey was delicious and only cost 2 | HOLIDAY 2015 table of contents | Holiday 2015 WWW.HEIFER.ORG 02 LETTERS 52 MIXED MEDIA Readers respond We’re all farmers now 04 FOR THE RECORD 56 HEIFER SPIRIT Spice World Malawi in pictures No butts about it 06 THE GOOD LIFE A coloring page for all ages 60 FIRST PERSON A winning holiday recipe Sons and daughters 08 ASKED & ANSWERED Michael Elliott, president and CEO of ONE JOIN THE CONVERSATION Follow World Ark blog on RSS and find Heifer on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and Vimeo. MANAGING EDITOR World Ark is the educational, infor- and humanitarian non-governmental Austin Bailey mational and outreach publication of organizations, and of Global Impact. Heifer International. Its purpose is to Federal and state employees may SENIOR EDITOR further Heifer’s goals to end poverty designate gifts to Heifer through pay- Jason Woods and hunger while caring for the Earth roll deduction by entering CFC #12079. and to raise awareness of the issues involved in this work throughout the © 2015, Heifer International. Passing WRITER ® world. Heifer International is qualifi ed on the Gift is a registered trademark Molly Fincher as a charitable organization under of Heifer International. Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Rev- Opinions expressed in World Ark are PRESIDENT AND CEO SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS enue Code. Contributions to Heifer Pierre Ferrari Pooi Yin Chong those of the authors and do not nec- International are tax-deductible to the essarily refl ect the views of either the John Houser extent permitted by law. PUBLISHER magazine or Heifer International. Cindy Jones-Nyland Since 1944, Heifer has helped 22.6 mil- CONTRIBUTORS lion families, directly and indirectly, in ® Annie Bergman R a g a n S u t t e r fi e l d more than 125 countries move toward The FSC Logo Brooke Edwards Karen Walrond greater self-reliance through the gift of identifi es products Peggy Rei Miller livestock and training in environmen- which contain wood tally sound agriculture. from well managed 1 WORLD AVENUE forests certifi ed in LITTLE ROCK, AR 72202, USA To change or remove an address, Heifer International is a member of accordance with the email [email protected] InterAction, the largest alliance of rules of the Forest EMAIL: WORLDARK@LIST. ® HEIFER.ORG or call toll-free 877.448.6437. U.S.-based international development Stewardship Council . WWW.HEIFER.ORG | 3 SPICE WORLD SPICE HERB MINERAL A pungently AROMATIC LEAFY PARTS of a plant A naturally The centuries-old spice trade boasts ties to vikings, queens, zombies and now SUBSTANCE from roots, that add flavor and aroma occurring, INORGANIC, stems, bark or seeds, to food or drink SOLID SUBSTANCE Heifer project participants. Cardamom farmers in Guatemala are tapping into used to flavor food or drink this international market that’s born fortunes and shaped history. SAFFRON ORIGINALLY FROM GREECE PEPPER is the world’s SAFFRON-BASED PAINT Some are trying most popular spice has been found in to encourage farmers prehistoric cave in Afghanistan to PEPPER ORIGINALLY FROM INDIA paintings grow SAFFRON, hoping it can take Used in China and Cleopatra PEPPER was the India as a fabric dye; liked to take the place of the Roman Empire’s Monks’ golden robes a SAFFRON BATH opium trade “ From the beginning, what the world aspirin: a cure for got their traditional before receiving wanted from bloody mother India was aches and pains hue from SAFFRON suitors daylight-clear….
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