Pig Delivery in Kyotera and Some Documents

Hi! Regarding this blog, perhaps you may have noticed the addition of several documents to the sidebar under the blog archive. I have included these in the blog as a way to share the files relevant to the project. You are more than welcome to use them to better understand the project or perhaps even to use them as resources to implement the project yourself in other communities.

And on to implementation...Yesterday, we handed out the training and reporting booklets to Kasaali and Kyotera. We also delivered the pigs to Kyotera. Until now, the VSLAs to receive the pigs first were chosen by the community based on which ones were the oldest (in terms of the VSLA start dates, not the members). We spoke to the Chairwoman in Kyotera, and she suggested that since there were three groups which started at the same time that we give 2 pigs each to the three groups, so we've made changes accordingly. We also found out that of the pigs that had been purchased, three were younger than 5 months old but were cross breeds and therefore of better quality, something which was not the case with the pigs that went to Kasaali.

I have included some pictures in this post in addition to adding a slideshow to the sidebar with more photos. The first one is of Kato explaining about the training and reporting booklets. The second and third are pictures of the Kyotera community members and the pigs. Enjoy!