We want to organize our community around a 'goat bank' business: importing two Boer goats and cross breeding with local goats we will produce and share a high yield goat herd, ensuring constant supply
97% of our people are engaged in rural subsistence farming but this yields very low production. So we have food insecurity and malnutrition among children, breast feeding and pregnant mothers The Goat Bank Project targets one community - in Sabu parish
The idea is of a bank not lending money but lending goats, a person receives a female goat and when there is offspring passes on a female goat to the bank community. The goats will be cross-bred from local does and imported bucks, to provide improvem
With an introduced better goat breed we aim to improve the quality and quantity of the goatherd to ensure constant supply of meat and milk. As well as achieving food security in the community and reducing malnutrition, we will increase household inco
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
