Goat rearing 

Location:               Kabale, Uganda

Project leadtime:  6 months

Requestor:         Leonard Tumwesigye on behalf of Children Rescue Voluntary Organisation (CRVO)

Description of the project:

After using all means to survive the Covid-19 pandemic a new income generating project needs to be started for the households of the vulnerable children. Goat rearing is a profitable home based project that requires low investment capital and the multiplication rate of goats is high. Hereby we generate a regular income for poor, landless and marginalized families, by providing meat and potential to sell both goats and manure.

Objectives:

- Enable households start small a income generating project that can be managed at a minimal cost and be able to improve on their lives.
- Enable households acquire relevant goat rearing knowledge and skills.
- Help households to be in a position to provide their children with the basic necessities of life after a period of time.
- Enable beneficiaries have manure to be used to improve on the productivity of their land

Beneficiaries:

Around 85 families will get 2 female, mature goats and the 5 male goats will be spread around the area so are easy accessible for mating.

Budget:

41.450.000 Uganda Shillings, equal to 10.061,00 €

Risks:

None

Attached documents:

Detailed budget overview

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Follow-up of the project

Date:                          March 24th 2021
 
General status:

This project started with the signing of the cooperation agreement and funds transfer in February.
Beneficiaries groups were formed amongst the CRVO children and their households. Each group nominated a team leader and 2 members to work together with the project staff and management.

Progress since last status report:

The veterinary officer provided training to the beneficiaries in their groups and gave children and their guardians some basic knowledge on how to fight and mitigate the impact of covid19 that affected their livelihood.
Needed goats were purchased and vaccinated after which each of the 5 groups of minimum 14 households, living in the same region, got their goats with 1 male goat centrally positioned in their area.
Till today 150 goats have been distributed and the remaining 16 will be given next Saturday 27th March.
 
Financial status:

The provided funds has been fully used in accordance to the submitted proposed budget.

Problems/concerns:

• Scarcity of goats in markets due to covid19 impact
• Meeting beneficiaries had to be done in groups due to covid
• Hiking of prices so bargaining by the purchasing team was needed to have sufficient funds

Attached documents (pictures, receipts,…):

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Follow-up june 2021

General status:

There has been steady progress at households as all the animals are being well managed and well monitored by the responsible group leaders. All goats are in healthy state and some have already in their gestation period (pregnant)

Progress since last status report:

The last batch of the remaining goats were distributed to the beneficiaries after the veterinary officer has given them treatment. On March 4th 2021 the group leaders held a meeting with CRVO staff and each team submitted their report in which success stories were dominating.
Each household has proved to be actively involved in feeding their goats and some of the goats are already in their gestation period which clearly shows that the multiplication effect of this project will be realized soon for the benefit of household families.
                     
We are grateful that day-by-day children and their guardians are acquiring relevant goat rearing knowledge and skills. Many families are in barren land where they have been failing to have manure to fertilize their small land. With this project, each benefiting family as of today dug holes around their homes where they collect animal wastes and take it to their small gardens to regain the lost fertility and multiply harvests leading to poverty reduction. Therefor children will not stay on an empty stomach and the number of children running away from homes due to poverty and lack of food will reduce. This will in the end put every household in a position of providing their children with food as a necessity.

Many thanks to the board members of Vleugels van Hoop association and your entire supporters for supporting this very interesting project that has continued to put more smiles on children’s faces.

Financial status:

The project was budgeted for 41450000=Uganda shillings and all funds were spent as budgeted.

Problems/concerns:

Limitations of meeting many children and guardians due to COVID19 made the distribution hectic
- Many homes are too scattered which made it challenging to do home visits
- Scarcity of animals in the market due to the selection we wanted.
- Outbreak of the new phase of COVID 19 will affect our regular home visits because of lockdown restrictions.

Attached documents (pictures, receipts,…):

Receipts

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