Heifer Nepal Celebrating 20 Years

Heifer International Nepal have achieved two decades of lifting vulnerable families to self-sufficiency and resiliency through a values-based holistic community development approach.

At the request of Nepal’s government, we started working in the country in 1957, providing high-yielding, improved breeds of cattle, sheep and pigs for cross-breeding along with hatchery for poultry. The ...

Heifer Nepal's Women-led Farmer Cooperatives Rebuild and Distribute Relief in the Wake of Flooding Disaster

Heifer Nepal, working in collaboration with 35 local farmer cooperatives and local governments, has provided relief supplies to about 11,000 families, more than 58,500 people, in nine districts in Nepal following devastating flooding. The disaster is threatening to cause a serious food shortage in the South Asian nation. About 80 percent of the southern agricultural belt of Nepal was submerged ...

Thousands of Heifer Project Families Affected by Severe Flooding in Nepal

More than 15,000 Heifer farming families in Nepal are suffering from severe flooding that has also devastated the country's main food-producing region. Heavy rains have swamped farm fields, sweeping away thousands of livestock and displacing families. The disaster is threatening to cause a serious food shortage in the South Asian nation. 

Sumnima Shrestha, communications and...

Heifer signed MoU with UKaid Sakchyam for Value Chain Financing

August 4, Kathmandu - Heifer International Nepal signed a MoU with UKaid Sakchyam to enhance access to finance for smallholder farmers involved in different agricultural value chains though value chain financing (VCF).

Heifer Nepal has been working closely with more than 230,000 farmers organized under 200+ cooperatives involved in different agricultural value chains with specific foc...

Korean Student Brings Hope to Nepal

Heifer supporter Justin Chang lives in Korea, but his heart is in Nepal. A high school student at Seoul International School, Chang joined the mission to end hunger and poverty six years ago when he and his classmates began raising money for Heifer International. 

Chang visited Nepal on a mountain climbing expedition only months before the 2015 earthquake that killed nearly 9,000...

LSIL Technical Coordination Committee Meeting Held

KATHMANDU, 7 June – Meeting of Technical Coordination Committee (TCC) for three livestock research projects, implemented by Heifer International Nepal with support from USAID/FtF, University of Florida, Livestock System Innovation Lab, was conducted.