Goats for Poor Farming Families in the Philippines

Dear Friends,

Greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project providing goats for poor farming families. We are indeed very happy to inform you that we are also providing farmers with seeds of highly nutritious grasses and farm equipment so that the farmers will be able to raise grasses to feed their animals. This is important because goats are ruminant and need grasses with high protein content in order to grow well. In some areas there is also the lack of grasses which is a cause of quarrel by goat raisers as the goats have the tendency to eat the plants of neighbors. This reporting period, we provided 20 farmers with 15 packets of different type of forage seeds with high protein content. Aside from the seeds we also provide them with iron farm implement so that they can easily plant the seeds.

Again thank you very much for your support.

Very sincerely yours,

Cora

Dear Friend,

Warm greetings and thank you very much for your kind support to our project to provide goats for poor farming families here. Our strategy is to create goat-raising associations or clubs that will learn together how to raise goats in a more efficient and productive manner. Without the training, mortality of the goats is high since they get sick easily. Training also include how to feed the goats with nutritious forage coming from the farm. We already have 175 benficiaries in this project and it will be difficult for us to supervise them individually thus the need for the formation of interest groups. In this way also it is easy for municipal technicians which we partner to conduct capacity-building and to treat the goats on a regular basis. This reporting period, we are able to form 9 associations located in 2 municipalities in Zamboanga del Norte.

Again thank you very much for your generous support.

With much gratitude,

Cora