Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Goat Aid
- Information about Goat Aid
- Goat Aid is a charity provided by Oxfam
- It is based across Africa
- It is a non-governmental organization (NGO). This means it doesn't rely on support from the Government
- It's focus is on working with widowed women by providing a goat which will create multiple benefits
- The benefits
- Manure for crops
- Meat which can be eaten
or sold to increase income
- The goats can be bred
to increase herd size, the
young goats can be sold
- Milk can be used for children or sold
- Goat fur can be used to make clothes which can be sold
- Drawbacks
- The goats require land and eat the grass
which adds to desertification
- Goat Aid hasn’t actually helped
decrease poverty, though the number of
hoofed animals has doubled
- Sustainability
- Goats can easily be looked after and
require little input
- It is a self-perpetuating system, so
once they have received a goat, it
can breed to grow a new herd. This
makes it sustainable
- Once the woman has bred her goats, she then gives a goat back to the organisation so it can be given to help
another women. This makes it a sustainable project