Challenges that poor families face

Most of the rural poor families do not have money and material resources that they could use to support their households by providing nutritive food, medication, and proper clothing for themselves and also providing essential necessities to their own children in time of need.

Solution

By providing pig farming, the poor families will be able to benefit financial gains and profits to cater for the needs of their families. They will also improve their farming skills by using the pig wastes as manual for their gardens. Source of compost for their gardens and in the end, they will have vegetables and other foods. On this point, each family that is going to benefit from this project will have at least 30 banana stem plantations whereby they will be putting the wastes of the pigs.

Long-term impact

Long-term Impact: The project will have a long-term self-sustaining effect in terms of solving problems that poor families face such as financial strains, nutritive food, and good farming. Another reason for keeping pigs is that families must try being more self-reliant. Working together as a family, in feeding pigs becomes a duty of everyone at home. Once fed well every year they will have some pigs to sell. Pigs can produce10-12 piglets and within a year a pig can give birth two times. Pigs are source of meat. Pigs reach slaughter weights when they are 6 months old. This means that in a period of 6 months the poor rural family will have something to sell. So, I feel that pig farming is the best project that can easily up lift the living standard of my people in the rural places of Binzi. Teaching our kids how to farm pigs is a great way of helping the whole family to sustain themselves. Everyone is involved, children and parents and guardians. This will help teach our children the importance of caring for others and the importance of being responsible. This is why, once this project has taken shape, our children will get knowledge that they need and the experiences they will remember to use in life.