On 4-5 November Heifer Project International Armenian Branch Office Study Tour group consisting of 19 Area Volunteer Coordinators from the USA visited Lori Region, the village of Debed to meet the families assisted within the framework of Heifer Armenia & Fuller Center for Housing Armenia Partnership.
Fuller Center for Housing Armenia, in partnership with Heifer Armenia, is implementing a program that helps the beneficiary families to establish small farms by providing them a pregnant heifer on condition that the first calf will be passed on to another needy family after three years.
Giving resources to the families who already have their own decent house Fuller Center for Housing Armenia together with Heifer Armenia give them the opportunity for life betterment: imagine families who once dreamed of having a decent home are also given the opportunity to live better. This is also a good way to enable them pay back the zero-interest loans (only by selling the 60 % of the milk, they can pay back the loans). The project is enlarging, and now we also provide families with sheep and bees.Up to now 100 Fuller Center for Housing Armenia beneficiary families were provided with cows, 42 families with bees and 15 families with sheep. This year already 35 families from Khachik village passed on the gift - the heifer to other Fuller Center Armenia beneficiary families thus providing another 35 families with resources and the opportunity for life betterment.
