Heifer International takes on its biggest project to date — an $800 million campaign to alleviate hunger and educate the world.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

“When a family accepts an animal, they then are obligated to pass on the first female offspring to someone else in the community. I was on a farm, and a family had just completed the pass-on requirement. It hit me that this man who doesn’t have much spent a year raising this cow, feeding it, keeping it healthy before it could be passed on. In some ways, that cow was 30 [percent] to 50 percent of his total wealth in the world. How many of us give away half of our wealth?