By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director
Our Microcredit projects have had very mixed results over the years. We will need to sit down by the end of the year with our new coordinator and have a close look at the successes and failures.
But: there is always a new project in the works. In consultation with an agricultural specialist, his recommendation was simple: breed rabbits. Pigs can easily become the target of the unfortunately more and more common raids by cattle thieves (dahalo), because they are big and can be herded. Rabbits are too small to be of any interest for a cattle thief, since they fetch a small price and cannot just be herded away.
But rabbits can either be eaten or sold during the holiday season in the next town. And rabbits multiply proverbially fast. This time we started small and took a different approach this time. Each school will get one pair of rabbits if and only if the community has built a rabbit house in the schoolyard. Once the rabbits start to multiply, interested villagers can come to the school, learn the ins and outs of rabbit breeding and only then receive their own pair.
Now to a bit of housekeeping:
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By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director
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