Tariro Yeupenyu (Hope for Life)
Project Outline
- A community-based project to provide goats’ milk for orphan babies and young children in the poor rural Karanda area of north-east Zimbabwe
- There are at least 430 orphans living in 49 villages in the district.
- Typically, the families are headed by an older relative or sometimes by an older child.
Practicalities
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- Project is run by a committee of local people.
- Co-ordinator is James Kambudzi – a local pastor and a chaplain at Karanda Mission Hospital.
- Goats are either purchased or bred from a small herd and distributed to families
- Training and support is provided for each family
- The project relies solely upon the support of Christians and churches in the UK
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Progress so far
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- 24 goats have been distributed since April 2011, all through funds from UK churches and individuals..
- All families that benefit from the gift of a goat are very poor – often with no regular income.
- The offspring of these goats will be given to needy families and this will make the project more sustainable.
- The children from families that were given a goat in April are much more healthy than a few months ago.
- James uses each visit to the families as an opportunity for prayer and / or the study of the Bible.
- Chris Boyes visited Karanda in July, 2011, and saw both the great needs of the orphans and their families and the difference that the goats are making already.
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Next Steps
There are many more families in real need that would benefit greatly from the gift of a goat for the young orphans in their care. Over the next 2 years it is hoped to provide more goats together with improved goat husbandry techniques and vets care. In addition, it is planned to start providing maize seed for impoverished families and training in sustainable agricultural methods, (Farming God’s Way). In the longer term we would love to support children to go to school through paying school fees and providing school clothes and to develop local agricultural schemes that will be self-sustaining.
Contacts
Chris Boyes and Roger Prime