FALL 2018 || HEIFER.ORG HEIFER GHANA The Other PLUS Ghana WATER AROUND THE WORLD How much do we GET YOUR use? How much do 08 JAM ON we really need? MADE IN 18 HONDURAS BEDTIME STORIES 40 FOR A BETTER WORLD 18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 1 7/9/18 1:58 PM Looking for a great gift? VISIT WWW.HEIFER.ORG/MARKETPLACE TO FIND ALL YOUR FAVORITES! 2018 Fall WA-Online Marketplace Ad.indd 1 6/6/18 10:17 AM YOU SHOP. AMAZON GIVES. When you choose Heifer International as your charity, a percentage of everything you buy on Smile.Amazon.com is donated to Heifer at no additional cost to you. IT’S AS EASY AS 1 GO TO SMILE.AMAZON.COM 2 CHOOSE HEIFER INTERNATIONAL 3 SHOP AT SMILE.AMAZON.COM EVERY TIME 2018 Fall WA-Cause Mkt-Amazon Smile Ad.indd 1 5/29/18 8:19 AM 18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 2 7/9/18 1:58 PM horizons Dear Determined PIERRE’S PICKS Pierre has been waxing philosophical Humanitarians, lately, and you can join him in his favorite explorations of the nature of knowledge and humanity. magine, if you will, the anxiety looks di erent depending on and uncertainty of living in community circumstance, desire a place plagued by political and agricultural product. We’re Enlightenment Icorruption and systemic helping co ee farmers diversify Now poverty and overrun by violence. farms for better production and by Steven Pinker While that description fi ts scores boosting animal management Progress is real, and of areas around the world from techniques among indigenous science can prove the Middle East to regions across Lenca communities so they can it. Pierre’s review: Africa, it has been true for the better market their beef and dairy “Best book EVER!” people of Central America for products. We are working with decades. It’s no wonder families cheesemakers, a Honduran donut become so desperate they have bakery and a wooden toy maker all no choice but to uproot and in the district of Olancho, where Creating seek asylum in foreign lands. we’re also boosting tourism. Capabilities Most recently, we’ve seen All activities are by Martha that play out close to home. contributing to stronger Nussbaum The caravan of nearly 1,200 local economies. And when emigrants — many of whom money stays in communities, A Chicago University were fl eeing gang violence and more people prosper. philosopher hits lack of opportunity in Honduras This issue also features our close to home, or surrounding countries — riled work in Ghana, a town that went to espousing similar our leaders and set the United war with pesticides, a fascinating ideals to Heifer’s States on edge, once again, in infographic on water use and a holistic approach the immigration debate. look at the fi rst-ever goat festival to helping people. At Heifer, we understand the held by our team in Nepal. complexities that underpin the I hope you enjoy the issue and The Stone Reader issue because we face them every take time to consider the causes of by Peter Catapano day in our work, and not just in complex issues like emigration that and Simon Honduras from where the majority we deal with every day. No doubt Critchley of these emigrants fl ed. We face it these are issues that we all feel everywhere. A lack of land, capital strongly about, but let’s remember Think philosophy is and opportunities to succeed our common humanity and focus just for academics have forced people to seek jobs or on where we can come together to and professors? Think economic opportunities elsewhere. strengthen and not further divide. again and read this After examining root causes, collection of essays on we equip families with tools, Yours for a better world, modern philosophy training or capital to help them stay originally brought to rooted and earn an income that the masses by The allows them to weather existential Stone column in The storms. In Honduras, which you’ll Pierre U. Ferrari New York Times. read about in this issue, the work @HeiferCEO HEIFER.ORG | 1 18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 1 7/9/18 1:58 PM GIVING BAAAACK HOST A LIVING GIFT MARKET EVENT AND GET YOUR CONGREGATION INVOLVED IN ENDING HUNGER AND POVERTY. Our resources include everything you need, bringing the commandment to “love your neighbor” to life. ORDER FREE RESOURCES NOW AT WWW.HEIFER.ORG/FAITH WWW.HEIFER.ORG/FAITH | 888.5HUNGER (888.548.6437) 18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 2 7/9/18 1:58 PM table of contents | Fall 2018 The Poison Apple || FALL 2018 HEIFER.ORG In 2014, the European town of Mals 12 voted to ban pesticides. The author of A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement talks about what led Mals to become the world’s fi rst pesticide-free community. HEIFER GHANA Made in Honduras The Other In Olancho, there are a lot of hardworking, PLUS Ghana WATER AROUND THE WORLD creative people fi nding ways to make a How much do we 18 GET YOUR use? How much do 08 JAM ON we really need? living. But it’s not easy to sustain a small MADE IN 18 HONDURAS business in Honduras. Heifer is helping BEDTIME STORIES 40 FOR A BETTER WORLD connect new entrepreneurs to training and larger markets. COVER The Other Ghana Martina Sabaar of Ghana is Ghana’s economy booms on oil and cocoa building a new home with money 28 profi ts, but remote farming communities in she earned selling goats. Photo by Geo Oliver Bugbee the Northern Region are stalled out. Lacking resources and opportunity, people here Top: have only two choices: leave or fi nd a way to Mefore Kuunmwine prepares make their farms more productive. A Heifer food at an open-air stove in her courtyard in Ghana. project is boosting goat production and Photo by Geo Oliver Bugbee making staying home a viable option again. HEIFER.ORG | 3 18-WA-AD1K 2018 Fall World Ark Magazine Book.indb 3 7/9/18 1:58 PM letters READERS RESPOND people. Like the story about the Women are NOT inferior to men. women who gave a neighbor a goat Both sexes benefi t when women even though Heifer didn’t give her are treated as equals. The idea one to begin with. These people that women are less valuable, less need their children to help with the intelligent or otherwise inferior animals, farming, carrying of water inevitably leads to spousal abuse, and numerous other tasks. Like child brides and increased risk of the American farmers of old and in living in poverty. In other words, a Europe, large families were the norm. community will never thrive as it America and Europe are should when half of the population is su ering from a zero growth rate uneducated, barefoot and pregnant because of long-lasting reversible with no choice in the matter. Heifer contraceptives and abortion. Soon should seek to empower women there will be fewer and fewer young in order to raise up the whole people to support the elderly and community. Livestock alone cannot the economy of these countries. lift families into a better life. Countries like China and India are The truth, indeed, shall set us free. experiencing a shortage of girls DEBRA CARPENTER GREAT JOB because of selective abortion. Muncie, Indiana Your Summer 2018 issue had The approach Heifer is many great articles. “The Dirt on taking, that is to help people help Produce” gave a clear picture of themselves, is the right thing to what we need to do to restore our do. We have no right to tell these Q&A FALL soil to support healthy food. World countries to limit their populations. In Honduras and other Ark’s book reviews have led me to Natural disasters, disease and wars countries, Heifer many good books on this and other take care of that and always have. International is supporting important issues. Also, in this issue’s My suggestion would be to get entrepreneurs and their letters to the editor, a concern was the George Soroses of this world to families. What kinds of small expressed about what happens to invest in Heifer and organizations businesses would you like milk pouches from your school like it to really give people the to see Heifer support? milk program. May I suggest that kind of help they want and need. the recycling company TerraCycle MRS. GIRA FREIBERG might help with any recycling issues. Plainview, New York WE WANT Thanks for all you do! LOUISE EVANS In our Summer issue we asked TO HEAR Wynnewood, Pennsylvania readers to answer this question: FROM YOU! “When Heifer International works Please send your comments A DIFFERENT VIEW within cultures where women to [email protected]. The reader states “if you want to end are considered the inferior sex, Include your name, city, poverty, you will provide long-acting should Heifer work to change that and a telephone number or reversible contraceptives to as many thinking? Why, or why not?” email address. Letters may women as possible.” She obviously be edited for length and hasn’t been reading the wonderful The question concerning cultures clarity, and may be published stories of sharing and giving you who view women as inferior took online as well as in print. write about in every issue.