| SMALL ANIMAL PROJECTS: "Producing to Grow" |
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"Producing to Grow" is a micro business program that provides an alternative source of income for poor families living in the Panacam National Park region and the coffee growing regions of La Libertad, Ojos de Agua and Lajas. The program provides families with training on how to manage their own chicken, pig or fish project. This includes training on constructing the proper project infrastructure, growing homemade feed for the animals, applying the corrected medications and vitamins to the animals as well as trainings on marketing so the families are able to commercialize their products.
Once a family is chosen to be part of the program, they are provided with either a pregnant pig, a brood of laying hens, or 2,000 fish fingerlings and some materials in order to build the corresponding pens. Once the beneficiary families reproduce the first female offspring these are then passed to another family in need, to repeat the process.
2011 Achievements:
¨ Construction of 76 chicken pens for new families joining the project
¨ 6 vaccination fairs to vaccinated chickens
¨ 1,901 chickens given out to families this year
¨ Construction of 57 pig pens
¨ 57 pigs given out to families this year
¨ A total of 480 piglets born this year
¨ Construction of 12 fish ponds
¨ 24,000 fish fingerlings given out to families this year
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| Brand new litter of piglets! |
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| Cleaning the fish pond |
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| Beneficiaries learn how to vaccinate the chickens to prevent diseases |
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| Doña Juana Rodriguez cleaning her pig pen |
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| Family receiving fish fingerlings |
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