MILK PROGRAMME

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Projects pertaining to livestock are inevitably slow growing, but as we are able to build up our stock and milk yield, we intend establishing milk rounds into the local villages, to improve the nutrition of the vulnerable.

The goats grew up, and on the very day that we managed to get the first 1\2 cup of clean milk from our first goat, - as opposed to polluted with hair and dirt where she put her foot in the bucket! - we heard that a young mother in the next village had just died leaving a 4-week old baby.
Could this be the start of our Milk Project?
Next day we sent a bottle of diluted goats milk to the family, and continued each day. That baby is now a bright, healthy, 9-month old. Her guardian confessed that she never expected her to survive.

We first met little Pemphero when she was about 18 months old. She was frail, swollen with malnutrition, and sickly. She lived with her 18 yr old aunt who also had a child of her own, - a very reluctant carer. Pemphero was often left alone, malnourished and neglected, only looked after by her 6-year old sister. One of our staff, concerned for her welfare, suggested we help with milk. We gave her a mosquito net too, so malaria is now much less of a problem and she is slowly gaining strength. At two, she weighs just 7kgs, and still can’t walk, but now often smiles!

Orphaned at 4 weeks, and pictured at
9 months, with her delighted guardian

Pemphero, vulnerable and sickly, and again 6 months and gallons of goats’ milk later - gaining weight and strength

MILK PROGRAMME

The Next Stage -
Our “Play Centre”

Future goat breeding plans also include providing high milk-yielding females, and specialised training, into local communities to empower them to create their own Dairy Units.