The goats project aims for self sustainable future

Hope Alive Uganda ran a goat project for orphans between 2009-2010

The project started in June 2009 when the first 10 orphans received a goat by Hope Alive Uganda. In November 2009, thanks to donations through the 1 % club that Hope Alive Uganda is working with, 25 orphans received a goat. In August 2010, the last 20 goats were given out to orphans, again thanks to donations through the 1 % club.   In total, 66 orphans received a goats between June and August 2010, thanks to Hope Alive Uganda.

The idea behind this project is that the orphans will give back the first female offspring to Hope Alive Uganda. Hope Alive Uganda will then pass it on to another orphan.   In this way, the project can be sustained by the orphans themselves, without Hope Alive Uganda continuing to finance the project. In this way, Hope Alive Uganda is able to finance other projects or start new projects.

The orphans can use the goats and their offspring to help themselves pay schoolfees, schooluniforms, schoolmaterials or simply, to live their lives. They can do this by selling milk, by selling goats etcetera.

Hope Alive Uganda has now entered a new phase in the goats project, which is to monitor the orphans passing on the first female offspring and to assist and advice the community, as the community has now taken over this project itself.   The orphans will be guided continuously by Hope Alive Uganda. Villagers have expressed the wish to even pass on the first male offspring, as villagers feel that even passing on the first male offspring will contribute to improving the circumstances of the orphans. There are even cases where the guardians of the orphans have exchanged a number of offspring for a cow. Hope Alive Uganda can agree with this wish. At the end of October 2010, the first female offspring was handed over to 10 orphans.

Hope Alive Uganda will continue assisting the community in Kisozi, and will actively start a new goats project again in the near future as part of the Cattle & Agriculture project.

The latest photos of this project can be found here.