the pigs

Day 9

We delivered pigs to a village today! Livestock raising as a micro-enterprise is one of the many facets of our child sponsorship program.

We believe that though the child is the one "sponsored"- programming needs to be approached from the entire family point of view. Its great if a child is given a uniform and backpack to go to school...but if there is still not enough money within the household, they still might be required to stay home and work.

Through our livestock program, families are given an animal (most often a pig) which they are to breed and sell for profit. They are also given the pig with the understanding that they are to pass along two healthy pigs to a neighbor.

Pig delivery days are some of my favorite at AOGWR! It might be hard to imagine the kind of impact that one pig has on a family...this analogy was told to me by a friend this week and it really put it in different terms. A pig to some of these people is almost the equivalent of say a grocery gift card that is supplied monthly to a family in need...

Grace and peace and the third way,
Kait