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LifeStock Program
Families who live on the edge need any opportunity to develop financial
independence. Gaining access to breeding livestock helps to initiate
small-scale, income generating businesses that secure their survival. We
gift families with livestock - chickens, ducks, goats, buffalos and cows
and basic training in animal husbandry to ensure program success. To build
self-reliance, initiative and hope, we encourage program recipients to
gift a future offspring to other needy families to continue the circle of
compassion. When the donee becomes the donor, there is a great sense of
dignity, pride and self confidence.
$20 buys four hens. They can immediately lay up to 200 eggs each
per year which is a reliable source of protein for starch heavy diets.
Supplemental income is made from the sale of extra eggs, while free range
chickens around the home provide a variety of helpful services, including
churning and fertilizing soil, and reducing bugs and weeds.
$35 buys a family a female dairy goat. It can supply several quarts
of nutrient-rich milk a day, supplemental income through extra dairy
sales, manure to fertilize gardens and up to 2-3 goat kids a year to
multiply the benefits and provide long-lasting economic independence.
$50 buys a young female pig. Pigs thrive on food waste products
which allows a family to easily nurture pigs without the additional time
and labor of animal grazing. With piglets born in large batches, pigs
rapidly breed providing a reliable source of income and nourishment by
providing much-needed protein.
$125 buys a female baby buffalo. During the first six month, the
family will gain the valuable manure to fertilize their fields, improving
the output of crops and vegetables, while the buffalo matures enough to
breed. From then on, buffalos provide an amazing 4 gallons of milk a day,
enough to dramatically improve a family's nutrition with enough surplus to
sell for extra income. And a calf a year provides really raises a family's
ability to move themselves out of poverty to economic independence.
$250 buys a female dairy calf. Cow milk is a luxury commodity in
Nepal, more prized than comparable buffalo milk, fetching higher prices
from local dairies. Families gifted with a prized dairy cow are on the
fast track to financial security and self-reliance. And with the first
calf donated to another needy family, dairy cows can make a huge impact on
an impoverished community.
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