PROJECT 1: Professor Roy Bellhorn Community Project

This locally-developed and run livestock project gives agricultural and nutritional support to some of the community’s poorest and most vulnerable members – primarily widows and grandparents who are raising their AIDS-orphaned grandchildren. The project provides each family with livestock – chickens first, and later a goat, that will create a source of income and protein for the family. The offspring of the livestock will be gifted to another family who will benefit and then in turn continue the chain of gifting to other families as their animals reproduce. Along with animals, the families receive training on livestock management and nutrition, human nutrition, financial management, and more.

Funded by Roy Bellhorn and Maggie Burns, the project began in January 2018 with 11 families in the village of Samia.