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As if the goat phenomenon could get any more unbelievable, now it is being used to help fight world hunger.

Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain Studios has teamed up with Escape Goat 2 creator MagicalTimeBean and charity organization Heifer International to bring animals to poverty-stricken areas of the world.

“The focus on revenue as an indicator of health is, I think, overemphasized,” said that still relatively new CEO, Pierre Ferrari. “It’s always good to grow revenue, but it’s not really one of our objectives. The objective is to increase impact, to have more families engaged so that we can take more people out of poverty.”

A nonprofit’s rating is based primarily on how much of its revenue goes toward the programs and services that are its reason for being and how much goes to overhead, which includes the cost of fundraising. Charity Navigator obtains this information from a nonprofit’s report to the IRS, called a Form 990. Heifer rated an overall numerical score of 46.94 out of 70 with 37.53 (one star) on “financial” measures and 67 (four stars) on “accountability and transparency.” That resulted in the two-star composite rating.

A campaign to promote the habit of drinking milk among Tanzanians has been launched. The aim is to make consumers healthy and develop dairy farming. The drive has been initiated by the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) programme through Heifer International Tanzania

Aiming at making consumers healthy and develop dairy farming, the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) program through Heifer International Tanzania, launched a campaign to promote the habit of drinking milk among Tanzanians.

At a time when greenhouse gas emissions from cars and electricity generation around the world are at an all-time high, Heifer International in Cameroon is leading initiatives and programming to help reduce such emissions from livestock production there.

Elanco says it has committed $500,000 to Heifer International’s East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD), continuing the company’s long-term partnership aimed at breaking the cycle of hunger for those most in need.

In a bid to promote dairy business in Kenya, Kenya Dairy Farmer Foundation (KDFF) and East Africa Dairy Development Project of Heifer International sought assistance from the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) on forming cooperatives for milk procurement, processing and marketing.

In a major effort to accelerate progress in the global fight against hunger and malnutrition, NGO alliance InterAction (of which Heifer International belongs) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have forged a first-of-its-kind agreement designed to leverage the unique assets of NGOs for greater impact.

Kurt Braunohler has an unorthodox plan to do some good in the world: he’s going to jet ski the length of the Mississippi River, from Chicago to New Orleans, in order to raise funds “to send 500 goats and 1,000 chickens to African families in need.”