Wiki: General info about Walungu and the project
Tue, 2008/03/25 - 04:19 —
DEFINE THE CURRENT SITUATION IN WALUNGU
To define the current situation we need to collect as many information about the village as possible. Ask here for any information you think it might be important. Our Local Representative will be happy to answer your questions
| QUESTION | ANSWER |
| How many people are interested to be a part of the project? | there are 100 families interested, but for the beginning 20 families are involved. the goal is that every family has several goats and is trained, and after that to gradually invlove other families. |
| What is the cost of goats? | A dairy goat is around 250$ (they used to be 150$), and a good domestic goat costs 50-55$ |
| What kinds of goats can you find? | There is Alpine in Burundi, Saanen and Toggenburg in Beni |
| How many goats does the community own at present? | 1 male and 2 females Alpine crossbred |
| What is daily milk production at present? | N/A |
| Veterinary and Artificial insemination services in the area? | 2 vets free of charge for this project |
| What is the community’s experience in cow/goat breeding and dairy |
community of walungu had a good background in cow breeding from their traditional culture,humanbeeing (they also have experience in goat keeping, but the goats in the area are non milk goats. Therefore they need training for dairy goats keeping as well as for improving goat keeping practices) |
| Details about the participating members - their background etc? | The 20 famillies first beneficiaries are a group of former pastoralist famillies,identified by our organisation during our vegetables productions activities in the village.The criteria was,land ,skills in cow breeding,livestock management.Others are vulnerables famillies which will learn from the experienced famillies pastoralist.in walungu the wealth rank was lastly defined by cow.iven if you could be a poor,you must have a cow.As far as you have dogther,that means that you have a cow.cow = wife. |
| What vegetables have the people exactly been growing? | In the area they are growing,sweet potatoes,manihota ,penissetum,kikuyu and others beans,sorgo,banana.but banana is actually destroyed by the wealt bacterien dela banane. |
| How much money can the community save per week/month? | To be discussed again... |
| What are the human resources available? |
Human Resources: (To be discussed again in details. There are Roger, university diploma in vegetable production, Manu, livestock specialist with international experience, Godet, architect...There is also Jules, the trainer with experience in livestock projects in Tanzania)
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| What is the situation with the land? | Farmers have land titles. Since we start to sensitise, people had 30 Ha of land for this project available to produce grass |
| What is the role of local NGO (ASDI)? | ASDI is working on Food distribution in the community, livestock rehabilitation; Mother and child protection, Shelter (NGO changed the name and status, will ask Guillaume to update) |
| What are the other local organizations that support the project? |
a) Catholic and protestants churches in Walungu. e)FONDAMU f) Minifarms |
| In what way the organizations support the project? |
The local catholic church and protestant church are involved in senzitization and accountant process.Churches are doing their best to help ASDI as stackholder to run this cow breeding and revolving project |
| Could you maybe give us a description of the typical farm in Walungu? | Walungu is 90% agriculture base community.They cultivate cassava,maize banana and sorgho. they principaly eat food and beans/milk in the past. Mrat and food of sorghum. livestock is in general Cow and secondary goat and cheap. chikens too and ducks. |
| Are there big communal areas where the cows can be taken to graze? | Yes are the big areas where the cows can be taken to graze.A former farm gave the community 30Ha for this project.30.000m2. |
| How does the community have access to water? |
in walungu thre is more rivers,they have no probleme of water.they have access to water from hills (the water is available for animals, but the people need more sources of safe potable water in the village) |
| Where will the goats be kept? |
The first goats will be kept in the shed built based on Scott's plan, with a locker on. During the day they will be taken to pasture and kept attached on a rope. The community decided to assign ownership of the goats to the families and already decided about the owner of the first goats after the training. They would like to keep them at their homes rather than at one place, but are still to see if they can afford to build sheds. |
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