May is a huge month for our livelihood projects in China! On May 11, we launched our pig project in another village, Mijushoe, and on the 12th, we launched the chicken farming project in Yiruo Village in Liangshan Prefecture. These two projects aim to increase mothers’ income streams to enable them to support their children’s education and overall well-being.
Pig Farming
After four months of preparation, we successfully started three rounds of pig-raising skills among our participants. They learned about scientific feeding, disease prevention and control, and cost management. To inspire them even more, we showed them the past impact of our project on our beneficiaries in 2024. Some of the women expressed that they had never made a profit from pig farming before but were very excited to start after watching the video.
90 women attended our pig farming, and since our participants are mothers, many of them cannot abandon their children at home. Some of them even brought their kids with them to the training, truly showing how mothers truly possess versatility of roles in their homes in their caregiving and opportunity-seeking efforts.
They quickly learned about lesser-known things about pig farming that could make a lot of difference in their process, like soaking piglets in cool water to improve digestion and prevent illnesses, thoroughly observing them after feeding, and providing dry straw beddings for their improved health.
After the training, the women expressed gratitude for their new knowledge. They not only learned new and different feeding techniques, but also came to understand why they hadn’t been making a profit previously. Now equipped with better opportunities, these women could no doubt juggle motherhood and livelihood projects like real champions!
Chicken Farming
Like the pig farming, 90 women attended the program and were divided into three rounds of educational sessions about the technicalities of chicken farming. It covered four areas: concepts and benefits of forest-grown free-range chicken farming, setting up a chicken farm in forested areas, essential production techniques, and common challenges encountered in raising chickens.
Their takeaways included best practices for disease prevention, temperature and ventilation control, bedding use, grouping and beak trimming, proper feeding, light and free-range management, and overall safety. The enlightenment and curiosity in their faces revealed that they will be just fine in raising chickens by themselves.
After the training, the women (some with their children on one hand) wore joyful smiles as they received their chicks and chicken feed to raise at home. They said their heartfelt gratitude and went home with newfound hope in their hearts.
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