09.06.07-09.20.07 Study Tour to China with Anna Lappé

What: Anna Lappé, author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and co-founder of Small Planet Fund, a fiscal sponsored project of RSF Social Finance, invites you to join her on a study tour to China through Heifer International.

Heifer International Study Tours are small, specialized expeditions through spectacular geography and unique ecosystems to visit remote villages and isolated peoples. These tours take you on a journey into the daily lives of extraordinary people as you visit with the farmers and families who are working with Heifer to improve their lives and protect the earth. A study tour takes you beyond your ideas about poverty and hunger, and shows you the power of transformation and the human spirit.

When: 09.06.07 to 09.20.07

Where: Beijing, Huangshan, Shexian, Hangzhou, and Zhouzhuang are on the agenda for this year’s China Study Tour.

Who: Heifer International, a non-governmental organization working with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.

Why: See how Heifer works with other NGO’s to help Chinese families battle extreme poverty. Heifer’s study tours show participants our community-based approach to improvements in Chinese projects and demonstrate how this model of sustainable solutions works to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth.