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animal husbandry and
dairy management, to
ensure the best possible care. We’ve also built a dairy unit, designed for ease of use and cleaning, then added a male khola (house) and paddocks. Solely to increase milk yield we’re developing a breeding programme and stud facility, and are actively seeking to cross our “girls” with pure-
Malnutrition amongst the children is widespread. Food is hard to come by and the weakest fail to thrive.
One day an elderly woman came, clutching a whimpering baby. The child had been orphaned, and was obviously hungry, barely surviving on the thinned maize gruel that was all she had been able to provide. The baby needed milk, but there’s none available in the area. We helped out with some powdered milk, but that wasn’t a long term answer – goats’ milk was!
We had a 20ft kraal built of local materials by local craftsmen. We then brought in 6 young female hybrid goats, and started milking
If we could build a dairy herd, we could send “Milk Rounds” by bicycle out into the
local villages to nourish vulnerable pre-
