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ABOUT HEIFER HONG KONG
Founded in 2000, Heifer Hong Kong is committed to alleviating poverty and meeting the needs of rural communities by helping farm families achieve a sustainable livelihood through animal husbandry and growing high-value crops in an eco-friendly manner.
Through multi-party cooperation, Heifer Hong Kong facilitates the development of rural cooperatives, thereby lifting smallholder farmers out of poverty and achieving integrated sustainable development in the community.
Recipient families promise to “Pass on the Gift” of livestock or the money equivalent, knowledge and skills learned to help other families become better off, setting off a multiplier effect that benefits many more families.
Until now, Heifer has implemented 180 poverty alleviation projects in rural China, lifting over 140,000 families out of poverty.
Ethnic Minority Project in Yunnan
Most of the ethnic minority families in Mainland China live in mountainous areas where the economic development is slow. Their low educational level and high tuition fees have caused many ethnic minority children to drop out after only completing junior high school. Thus, the families trapped in the cycle of poverty. Is it fate that ethnic minority children keep dropping out?
This vicious cycle has lasted seemingly forever, until recently. A Lisu teenager Yin Hong from Huangtian Village of Luquan County in Yunnan, achieved top grades in school and was admitted to top-tiered high school in Kunming and then one of China's best universities two years ago. This wouldn't happen without Hong's hard work and his family's support. Yin Yuhan, Yin Hong's father, did not want his son to follow his unlucky fate and dropped out after junior high school. He worked non-stop day and night, but the family only managed to make ends meet. Hong was on the brink of dropping out several times when the family had problems paying his tuition fees.
In 2018, Heifer Hong Kong launched a project in Huangtian Village, bringing development resources and methods to the villagers, and help this poverty-stricken ethnic minority community develop advantageous animal husbandry and farming to lift smallholder farmers out of poverty and realize sustainable development.
Although Huangtian Village's cooperative is still in its early stage of development, in just one year, the Yins has earned an extra income of around 8,000 yuan, that makes Yin fully confident in the future. Heifer Hong Kong believes that with support from generous donors such as yourself, a sustainable livelihood will be achieved over time as long as the project families persist with determination to change their lives.
Ethnic minority children needs your help. Donate today and you can lift their families out of hardship and change the children's lives.
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