adminIn an interview, the trust’s chairman, Mr Edwin Murwira, said they had identified a total of 50 families who will benefit from the project.
“We identified 50 families and from that we gave the first 10 families a goat each. If they keep the goats well, they pass on the first offspring to the next families until all families have a goat each,” said Mr Murwira.
He said they had decided to start with goats because they were not expensive to rear and could also survive in drought-prone areas. The project has been successful in Manicaland and as such was being spread to other areas of the country as a way of empowering families.
A beneficiary of the project, Mrs Siphiwe Mguni, said the goat-rearing project was helping a number of people in the area as it was also meant to generate income.
“We would like to thank ZimPro for giving us such an opportunity. The project is also meant to generate income and from it we may be able to sustain our livelihoods,” she said.
Mrs Mguni said the response to the project was overwhelming. Due to water problems in the area, the NGO has sunk boreholes and conducted awareness campaigns teaching the villagers methods of attaining self-sufficiency.
ZimPro director Mr Tobias Chipari said his organisation strove to provide leadership training in a bid to equip villagers with knowledge and skills of achieving self-sufficiency.
“The goal of the goat project is to uplift the lives of needy families. We teach them how to take care of the goats so that when they are ready for the market, they may fetch competitive prices,” said Mr Chipari.
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