World Vision dishes out 200 goats

By NATION REPORTER WO RLD Vision Zambia (WV Z) has distributed 20 goats to villagers in Chief Hamaundu’s chiefdom of Pemba to engage them in small-scale livestock rearing to improve their livelihoods.

WVZ community facilitator Fellow Hamatuli and Bulanda &amS e[tension officer 0ichael .ali]a confirmed the deYeloSment in seSarate interYiews with the National Agricultural Information Services (NAIS).

0r +amatuli said that each beneficiar\ receiYed fiYe Joats from beneficiaries in the ]ones of the SroJramme

He commended WVZ for enJaJinJ farmers in small scale liYestock rearinJ as the Yenture would Jo a lonJ wa\ in enablinJ farmers send their children to school and imSroYe their welfare.

+e said that Joats were a walkinJ saYinJs bank account and were in demand on both domestic and international markets

0r +amatuli further said that Joats were Srolific as the\ JaYe birth twice in a \ear and had the caSacit\ to deliYer two kids at a time.

$nd 0r .ali]a said the 0o\o +amaundu :orld 9ision cluster enJaJed farmers in 3emba in Joat rearinJ for them to transform their aJricultural enterSrises into Srofitable businesses.

+e e[Slained that the Joat alternatiYe liYelihood Yenture was also aimed at imSroYinJ the liYinJ standards of rural communities.

0r .ali]a named the reciSient communities in Pemba as 0weenJo %ulanda 0ichelo .anatela 0ulumbu and 6imwati\a 6ichibunde 6usumambo and Bulanda.