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Nepal - Sustainable Community Development Project
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| Extra milk from dairy goats can be sold or used to make cheese, butter or yogurt. |
This project will assist a total of 1385 families in the Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Palpa Districts of Nepal, which are characterized by widespread poverty, caste discrimination, and illiteracy, among other problems. The 475 original project families will receive 900 meat goats, 40 water buffaloes and fodder seed/saplings, while their respective local groups will receive funding to purchase fruit and vegetable seed/saplings. An additional 910 families will benefit though passing on the gift. All project participants will receive trainings on Heifer's 12 Cornerstones, self-help group management, improved animal management, kitchen gardening and organic farming, forage feed production, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS awareness. The project will also conduct Values-Based Literacy Program (VBLP) classes at 11 centers and organize youths into 17 groups for Cornerstones training. Heifer will also train Village Animal Health Workers (VAHW) and provide basic veterinary equipment and vet supplies.  Exchange visits will be organized for project participants to learn from other Heifer project sites.
Some of the objectives and activities that the project will be working towards are significantly increasing the project families income levels, improving nutrition, hygiene and sanitation and learning environmental protection and preservation through their work, and empowering women and youth groups through their contributions to family and social harmony.
The groups will pass on their gifts by forming and mentoring new groups to pass on the knowledge and skills they gained. Each participating family receiving a goat will pass on its first female offspring in a 1:1 ratio. The project participants will complete two generation pass ons of small animals and one generation pass on of large animals.
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