Share Your Story
Help us celebrate you, our volunteers and supporters, whose hard work and compassion is making a difference around the world.
Help us celebrate the tremendous role of volunteers and supporters in achieving a world free from hunger and poverty by sharing your story. Please use this form to record your story, or keep scrolling to read accounts from our amazing community. We can’t wait to hear from you!
We’d love to hear your story!
Read stories from supporters just like you!
Barb: The Trip of a Lifetime
Barb was looking for something meaningful to do after retirement. When she received one of Heifer’s famous gift catalogs in the mail, she knew this was an organization she wanted to get involved with in a meaningful and long-lasting way. From the very first hours she...
Barb: The Trip of a Lifetime
Barb was looking for something meaningful to do after retirement. When she received one of Heifer’s famous gift catalogs in the mail, she knew this was an organization she wanted to get involved with in a meaningful and long-lasting way.
From the very first hours she devoted as a volunteer in 2002, Barb has seen Heifer’s amazing work all over the world. “I’ve seen our projects in action in quite a few countries. I decided to become a donor and set up an endowment through the Foundation.” Most impacted by Heifer’s practice of Passing on the Gift®, she established the Barbara Oakes Endowment to ensure that even more families will continue to improve their lives for decades to come. “What we give may not seem like a whole lot of money to us, but it’s so much more to even the first person who receives, and then that person is going to give and it goes on and on.”
Barb attended a Seagoing Cowboys celebration in Medford, Indiana, during Heifer’s 70th anniversary in 2014. She hopes her love for Heifer and her example might inspire another friend to step forward to help.