Many of the farmers from our first project, The Porters Club, are now ready, and eager, to pass a sheep on to another farmer, this time from The Amizero (Hope) Group.
And The Amizero Group have been meeting in preparation for our arrival on February 8th.
Meanwhile, we have also undertaken a small side-project.
Beatrice is a hard-working single mother of 3 and struggling subsistence farmer. After only one year Beatrice went from no sheep to 4 sheep! The ewe she received from the project was already pregnant. It gave birth to a female lamb and then went on to have female twins 10 months later. And all 4 will reproduce before the end of 2012. That’s a load of sh*t in the best sense!
Her crop yield increased and she started a small kitchen garden with her children’s assistance.
The co-operative leaders showed us the broken down state of Beatrice’s small, single room home back in October 2011. I didn’t have the heart to look inside. They said if we provided the materials necessary, the community would build her a new one.
Done!
So when we return in February, we will be part of the construction crew in this community initiative.
And we will witness as Beatrice, now the proud owner of a flock of sheep, passes one on to another farmer in a new co-operative. Rwandans helping Rwandans, making us eventually obsolete.
And The Amizero Group have been meeting in preparation for our arrival on February 8th.
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Meanwhile, we have also undertaken a small side-project.
Beatrice is a hard-working single mother of 3 and struggling subsistence farmer. After only one year Beatrice went from no sheep to 4 sheep! The ewe she received from the project was already pregnant. It gave birth to a female lamb and then went on to have female twins 10 months later. And all 4 will reproduce before the end of 2012. That’s a load of sh*t in the best sense!
Her crop yield increased and she started a small kitchen garden with her children’s assistance.
The co-operative leaders showed us the broken down state of Beatrice’s small, single room home back in October 2011. I didn’t have the heart to look inside. They said if we provided the materials necessary, the community would build her a new one.
Done!
So when we return in February, we will be part of the construction crew in this community initiative.
And we will witness as Beatrice, now the proud owner of a flock of sheep, passes one on to another farmer in a new co-operative. Rwandans helping Rwandans, making us eventually obsolete.
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