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The cozy red barn is located right behind Heifer Village downtown and it’s filled with goats (including adorable babies), pigs, alpacas, chickens and turkeys.

BBC Outside Source interviews Heifer CEO Pierre Ferrari about the drought in Malawi.

Food Tank, in partnership with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, is hosting the 1st Annual Chicago Food Tank Summit on November 16, 2016. Food Tank recently had the opportunity to speak with Gregory Kearns of Heifer International, who will be speaking at the summit.

BBC Outside Source interviews Heifer Haiti Country Director Hervil Cherubin about the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew.

There are some locals pushing to increase supplies, including Georges Edouard Elie, a businessman who owns a reverse osmosis plant in Les Cayes that produces Eau Kay water for a string of south coast settlements He is working with Arkansas-based nonprofit Heifer International to install a network of 1,500-gallon tanks that can be fed by water trucks.

There are some locals pushing to increase supplies, including Georges Edouard Elie, a businessman who owns a reverse osmosis plant in Les Cayes that produces Eau Kay water for a string of south coast settlements He is working with Arkansas-based nonprofit Heifer International to install a network of 1,500-gallon tanks that can be fed by water trucks.

“We’re receiving reports about damage to homes and to some standing crops,” said Roda Valenzuela, country director for the U.S. nonprofit Heifer International. “But strong winds are still preventing us from going out into the fields to do further assessments.”

There have been a number of attempts to snap the Curse of the Billy Goat that supposedly afflicts the Chicago Cubs, but this one might be the best, if only because it’s for a pretty good cause.

The hurricane relief effort is facing serious logistical challenges. “Some of the hardest hit places are in the mountains that can only be reached by walking two to three hours by foot or you can get there using horses or a donkey,” said Hervil Cherubin, Haiti country director for Heifer International.

Hurricane Matthew tore up large tracts of food crops as well as mature coffee and cocoa plantations when it ravaged Haiti’s fertile south last week, with a U.N. official expressing concern about possible famine in the poorest nation in the Americas.