Heifer-Ukraine is a well known charitable organization with a wide experience and effective professional team. Heifer-Ukraine works with rural communities to improve the well-being of families while caring for the environment.

In support of the Mission of Heifer International, Heifer-Ukraine in partnership with other organizations focuses on assisting disadvantaged rural communities, small holders and farmers to improve their living standards and help them achieve sustainability.

Heifer-Ukraine assists rural families united into Agricultural Service Cooperatives (AS coops), which implement Heifer-Ukraine projects. By providing services to rural families in land cultivation, collecting and cooling milk, preparing mixed fodder, collecting and drying fruits/ berries and other services, AS coops help people increase their income, diversify the sources of income, and improve the quality of life. Some of the services launched by the coops are not offered in rural areas by other providers, though they are in high demand. Examples include garbage collection, gas supply, laundry etc.

Heifer-Ukraine provides support to AS coops based on the principles of integrated assistance, development of the institutional capacity of the coops, increasing the number of involved families. Examples of assistance provided to coops by Heifer-Ukraine include:

• Providing of animals and plants that are later distributed among families according to a joint decision of AS coop members;
• Providing of equipment for joint use;
• Conducting studies/trainings and consultations on business planning, marketing, accounting, and financial reporting etc.;
• Encouraging the development of value added chains;
• Promotion of new approaches to effective farming among smallholders – growing organic products, using worm composting etc.;
• Bringing the community closer through trainings, public meetings etc.

Our work is based on 12 key cornerstones