Ndejje Piggery Project (Uganda)
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Hi, for as long as I remember my family (especially my mother Bessie Trollope), have always made direct charitable contributions to various community projects in Uganda. The projects have included paying school fees for various children through to university, to providing food, supporting refuges and helping to build homes.
However, we have always felt the need to make the donations self sustaining in the long run.
Therefore, in the early summer of 2014, we started the Ndejje Piggery Project as a way to empower, advise and employ local people. Land was provided and we started off by cultivatiing plantain, potatoes, cassava and vegetables prior to the introduction of the pigs.
We have had 4 litters of piglets already from our 4 sows and the numbers are increasing rapidly. The pigs are allowed to go outside but sleep indoors.
We now have a fulltime manager and 3 other farm workers. In addition to the pigs the farm supports a small group of goats and chicken. The produce supports the local schools/university and community and there is a growing demand for the farm's products.
Therefore, we are urgently asking for any help you can give in order to accomodate the growing demands of the project.
We urgently need to raise money for the installation of a water tank of 5000 litres to harvest rain water to sustain the pigs. The workers are currently having to get water from a well outside the farm on a motorbike (recently upgraded from a bicycle) involving several runs a day. Can be very tough in the hot dry season,
We also need to purchase a truck to help with transportation of produce, feed, vet runs and any other farm work.
In addition, we are now in phase two of extending and constructing more pig sheds to accomodate new litters of pigs. We urgently need to contruct this as two sows are currently pregnant and we will need to move the older ones shortly.
I hope you will be so kind and donate anything in order for us to sustain the project.
Please return for updates on the farm or visit our facebook page.
Thank you everyone.
However, we have always felt the need to make the donations self sustaining in the long run.
Therefore, in the early summer of 2014, we started the Ndejje Piggery Project as a way to empower, advise and employ local people. Land was provided and we started off by cultivatiing plantain, potatoes, cassava and vegetables prior to the introduction of the pigs.
We have had 4 litters of piglets already from our 4 sows and the numbers are increasing rapidly. The pigs are allowed to go outside but sleep indoors.
We now have a fulltime manager and 3 other farm workers. In addition to the pigs the farm supports a small group of goats and chicken. The produce supports the local schools/university and community and there is a growing demand for the farm's products.
Therefore, we are urgently asking for any help you can give in order to accomodate the growing demands of the project.
We urgently need to raise money for the installation of a water tank of 5000 litres to harvest rain water to sustain the pigs. The workers are currently having to get water from a well outside the farm on a motorbike (recently upgraded from a bicycle) involving several runs a day. Can be very tough in the hot dry season,
We also need to purchase a truck to help with transportation of produce, feed, vet runs and any other farm work.
In addition, we are now in phase two of extending and constructing more pig sheds to accomodate new litters of pigs. We urgently need to contruct this as two sows are currently pregnant and we will need to move the older ones shortly.
I hope you will be so kind and donate anything in order for us to sustain the project.
Please return for updates on the farm or visit our facebook page.
Thank you everyone.
Organizer
Viv Ajagbe
Organizer