Gardens for Goats

On Thursday, the entire group of women jammed themselves into the double cab pick-up truck of the manager of ProPeten’s local initiatives program, and they all headed to Socotzal, another lakeside community, to teach and help build Square Foot Gardens for the women there. The women from Socotzal are involved in a program through Heifer International that supplies pregnant goats. After our group had finished building the first two gardens, the other group offered to include them in the “livestock program” … 4 women here are each given a pregnant goat and the training to properly care for it … and within a certain number of months, they must pass on a pregnant goat to another woman. Yesterday, the first 2 goats were delivered to our village … and here we see Cyra, accompanied by Rose and Martha Luz, leading her goat home.

This afternoon, Lino, the manager of this project through ProPeten, will be coming here to begin the training program in caring for goats.