MoU between Heifer and Machhapuchchhre Bank to Expand Access to Finance for Smallholders

November 13, Kathmandu – Heifer International Nepal signed MoU with Machhapuchchhre Bank Limited to expand access to finance for rural smallholder farmers, small and medium enterprises and other value chain actors though Heifer supported cooperatives as “Financial Intermediaries”. The major domain of financial intermediaries includes wholesale lending to cooperatives, direct lending to individual ...

Heifer Nepal Felicitated for Exemplary Service during Terai Flood

Heifer International Nepal is awarded by the Department of Livestock Services (DLS) during its Annual Day Celebration Event in Kathmandu on 16th October 2017, for the exemplary service Heifer had provided during immediate relief for the victims of recent flood that devastated most of the Terai districts.

Working in collaboration with 35 Social Entrepreneurs Women’s Cooperatives and lo...

Heifer Nepal Celebrated 20th Anniversary

Commemorating its 20 years of working in Nepal, Heifer International Nepal celebrated its 20^th Anniversary in Kathmandu on 25^th September. What began as a humble project to provide goats to 25 women in Gitanagar, Chitwan in the year of 1993 and came into agreement with Social Welfare Council in 1997, Heifer International Nepal on completion of 20 years has directly reached...

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...