Many of you very generously gave financial support to our Give-a-goat program here in Bundibugyo over the winter holidays, and I'm wanted to finally get around to giving you some "proof of purchase" for your contributions.
There will be about 100 goats distributed to malnourished children, HIV exposed children under the age of 2, or other particularly vulnerable families in need of protein rich nutrition for their children.
The 100 goats will be distributed in 3 distributions through the year, the first of which was held last month, 8 April.
Lamech (tall man on the left) is "the goat man" he trains all of the recipients in goat care, distributes them and then provides follow up veterinary care for them. Currently he has about 500 goats in his care and we are working on trying to make that a bit more manageable for him.
John Clark (WHM teammate, white guy on the right :) is mr. agriculture, overseeing all of WHM's agricultural work in BGO including the goats, a chicken project, demonstration gardens, income generating farms for Christ School, etc.
The women come from near and far and all leave with one of these super cute goats that are purchased by WHM with your contributions, that then provide life saving milk for their families. They leave the Mission so happy, with a bit more hope for their lives. We are unable to match a particular goat/recipient family with a particular donor, but I wanted to share with you a few photos of the resources we are privileged to distribute because of your generosity.
Here is the where the goats are kept on Mission property before they are distributed.
And here's a part of the herd distributed a few weeks ago. Thanks again to all you who gave so generously!
Many of you very generously gave financial support to our Give-a-goat program here in Bundibugyo over the winter holidays, and I'm wanted to finally get around to giving you some "proof of purchase" for your contributions. 
There will be about 100 goats distributed to malnourished children, HIV exposed children under the age of 2, or other particularly vulnerable families in need of protein rich nutrition for their children.
The 100 goats will be distributed in 3 distributions through the year, the first of which was held last month, 8 April.
Lamech (tall man on the left) is "the goat man" he trains all of the recipients in goat care, distributes them and then provides follow up veterinary care for them. Currently he has about 500 goats in his care and we are working on trying to make that a bit more manageable for him.
John Clark (WHM teammate, white guy on the right :) is mr. agriculture, overseeing all of WHM's agricultural work in BGO including the goats, a chicken project, demonstration gardens, income generating farms for Christ School, etc.
The women come from near and far and all leave with one of these super cute goats that are purchased by WHM with your contributions, that then provide life saving milk for their families. They leave the Mission so happy, with a bit more hope for their lives. We are unable to match a particular goat/recipient family with a particular donor, but I wanted to share with you a few photos of the resources we are privileged to distribute because of your generosity.
Here is the where the goats are kept on Mission property before they are distributed.
And here's a part of the herd distributed a few weeks ago. Thanks again to all you who gave so generously!
1 comment:
thats really cool...it's too bad you couldn't match particular goats to particular donors, maybe you should work on that
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