Green makes it Better!
We have planted around 1000+ trees, consisting of
mango trees, jamun trees, pomegranate trees and guava trees.
The Gift of Goat is a program that aims to transform impoverished individuals in India into self-sufficient benefactors. The program identifies individuals from rural villages in southern India who come from impoverished backgrounds. Upon being selected, they are gifted with a pair of goats. As the goats multiply, and reach a total of ten, the recipients are expected to “gift” two goats to others who are similarly situated in terms of their socioeconomic circumstances. They may keep the remaining goats for future rearing. In this manner, the “beneficiary” becomes a “benefactor” themselves, and the cycle of giving continues.
The Gift of Goat is a unique program that has the potential to quickly provide a steady source of income for families. The program provides beneficiaries with the resources they need to start their own businesses and become self-sufficient. It also teaches them the importance of giving back to their communities.
Empowerment – Goat herders to rearers
This mission is targeted in areas of extremely social economic disadvantaged people by ancient cultural and social norms that still exploits the most downtrodden and vulnerable. This area also deals with high female infanticide rates arising from the same reason.
Goat rearing is achievable in rural villages as this is possible with minimal education and availability of non-cultivated land. Return on investment (ROI) is high on goat rearing. These villagers are knowledgeable in goat rearing but are exploited as goat herders. By providing goat herders with their own goats, we are making them goat rears.
Vulnerable people, widows and widowers are also included in this program.
Two stories from our gift of goats program:
A family consisting mainly of women who worked as farm labourers were gifted a pair of goats in early 2019. They had multiplied the “talent” (Goats) seven-fold, having a total of 14 goats by 2022. They then fulfilled the promise of gifting another such family two healthy goats. They also sold a few of the goats and built a toilet at their home. THis made a more secure and healthy environment for the girl children of the family who otherwise would have had to relieve themselves in bushes. They have been so successful with goat rearing that they are now providing employment opportunities by hiring goat herders.
Another beneficiary after improving his stock of goats was about the gift two healthy goats to another poor family. However, at that time his son fell down from a wall and broke his upper limb. For his son’s treatment those two goats were sold and the medical expenses met. Where it not for the goats, the boy would not have received proper medical care. After a few months, the family did give two goats to another poor family nearby.