pig for pikin presentation-25jul2015

Pig For Pikin

Pig farming to support education of Lower Fungom children

25/07/2015 Pig For Pikin project explained to Lower Fungom beneficiaries 1

Goals

• You have schools and teachers in Lower Fungom but little money to support them.

• We want to help you have more money to support your children’s education:

• Better schools • Motivated PTA teachers

05/02/23 Pigs For Pikin project explained to Lower Fungom beneficiaries 2

Na how?

• We will help you create pig farms in Lower Fungom that can generate profits that will cover expenses for schools and PTA teachers.


First thing: training• Trained and devoted farmers in Lower Fungom are our main

guarantee that the project will be successful.


Where do we train farmers?• In the School of Agriculture of the National Polytechnic Bambui. This is

the best School in Cameroon for farmers!• Training will take place from September 13 to October 4, 2015.


What will they learn?• How to best run a piggery and take care of pigs of every age• How to do marketing of pigs and manage finances


Who will be trained in Bambui?• One person per village• At least half of the trainees must be women• All of them must be willing and skilled at sharing with others what

they have learned• There is a procedure to be followed, it is illustrated at the end of

this presentation and in Annex 3. Please ask Mr. Ikom to show this to you.

• Each Village Committee has to notify the name of the selected trainee by September 10, 2015. Failure to do so will mean the village will have no trainee.


What happens next?

• Phase 2 of the project is the construction of ONE pig pen and the introduction of the first batch of pigs and piglets.


Where will the pig pen be located?

• Close to a market place• Easily reachable by truck• Availability of water• Not too close to people’s houses (especially of

Muslims!)• Probably the first pig pen will be built in Abar


Who will own the first pig pen?

• It will be property of the “Pigs for Pikin” project;• It will not be property of the village in whose land

it will be built, be it Abar or any other village.


What will its purpose be?• It will serve as a hub for reproduction of pigs.• This is essential for later peopling of other pig

pens in Lower Fungom• Without this pig pen the project cannot start.


Who will build it?

• The Pigs For Pikin project will cover expenses for materials that are not available in Lower Fungom, like nails etc.

• Labour will be provided by the trainees who went to Bambui plus other voluntary workers

• All villages will have to provide timber and assistance during the construction


When will the big pig pen be built?

• Soon after the trainees come back from Bambui (around October 5, 2015)

• It will take about one week to complete the construction.

• The pig pen will have to be ready to receive pigs by October 20th, 2015 at the latest.


And then?

• We will transfer a good number of pigs and piglets, along with feeding and medicines for them.

• At that point, by the end of October, the first pig farm will be fully functional!


And in a few months…

• If there will be no problems in the management of the pig farm, piglets will start to be born around March, 2016.

• These new piglets will be kept in the big farm for some time and then transferred to other pig pens…


…other pig pens?

• This will be a very important moment of the project

• We plan to build 3 more pig pens in Lower Fungom, smaller than the first one.

• Each of these smaller pig pens will have to be managed by a group of villages, that will collaborate among themselves in doing this.

• The project will contribute nails for the construction of these pens, plus pigs’ feeding and medicines for some months.


Where will the smaller pig pens be located?

• Like the first one, close to a market place, to the road, not too close to people’s houses.

• The final locations will be decided by the Village Committees and the Steering Committee.

• It is fundamental that villages agree on forming 3 separate groups, each of which will take care of one small pig pen.


Our proposal

• Our suggestion is that:– Villages should form groups of about the same

population size. So, Koshin and Fang could form a group by themselves as they are more populated than the other villages. Other groups may be formed by 4 or 5 villages if these are small (like Ngun, Biya, Ajumbu, etc)

– Groups should be made of neighbouring villages– Villages forming a group should be in good

relations between each other.


One possibilityGroup 1: Western Lower FungomAjumbu, Biya, Kung, Munken, Ngun (and Small Mekaf)

Group 2:Central Lower FungomAbar, Buu, Mashi, Missong, Mufu, and Mundabli

Group 3:Eastern Lower FungomKoshin and Fang


Anyway, it will be up to your Village Committees

to find the best way to go about this.


What is sure is…

… that the success of this project depends on your will to

COLLABORATE between villages.


We will bring pigs and knowledge…


…close to a group of villages…


…to support education.


This is possible only if you cooperate among yourselves


So it will bring more and more…


But if you will not cooperate in looking after the pigs and the pig pen


And if you will not protect all this from bad people


You will be the ones losing the most


So be smart and do your best to cooperate with other villages and to

promote cooperation.

A mango tree takes a long time to become big and bear fruits, but it can

die in half an hour if there is fire.


So…

• As you have seen this is a BIG project that will last for LONG TIME.

• To be successful we need to be – COLLABORATIVE WITH EACH OTHER– VERY WELL ORGANIZED

• The next part is dedicated to how we will organize ourselves.


VILLAGE COMMITTEES

• In order to participate in the project and benefit from its results, each village must create a Village Committee following our procedures.

• The village committee is the group of GUARDIANS OF THE PROJECT:– Chairman or Chairwoman– vice-Chairman or Chairwoman– Secretary– Treasurer


THE CHAIRMAN or CHAIRWOMAN

• shall coordinate actions of the village committee

• shall be responsible for maintaining peace within the committee and the village with regard to any issues related with the project

• shall represent the village committee in the Lower Fungom Steering Committee

• Must have excellent relations with the other villages


The vice-Chairman / Chairwoman

• shall ensure continued communication with Project Managers, via telephone or other means

• shall be always reachable via telephone for any kind of communication from the Project Managers

• shall replace the Chairman in case the latter is absent


The Secretary

• shall keep minutes of all the committee meetings and any other kind of event that needs to be recorded

• shall fill out all the documents that will be requested by the KPAAM-CAM project personnel


The Treasurer

• shall be responsible for keeping long-lasting records of all cash flows related with project actions in the village

• shall be responsible for the coordination of all community works needed in the village to implement project plans


What does a Village Committee do?

• They will have to meet at least once in a month• They will have to send regular reports, highlighting any

possible problems as soon as possible. • They will have to monitor effectiveness of project

actions• They shall be responsible that the project is going

according to plans• All members of Village Committees will offer work on

a voluntary basis THEY NO GO GET NO MONEY!


Who can be elected in the Committee?

• At least 3 out of the 4 members MUST be– farmers– residing in the village for the past 15 years

• At least 2 out of the 4 members MUST be– active in the development of the village for the

past 3 years– women

• All of them must be recognized by their fellow villagers as honest and collaborative persons.


Who can NOT be part of a Committee?

• The village Chief• Persons who have been charged with

accusations of theft or other serious crimes.


You should create your own Village Committee as soon as possible,

in any case no later than August 25


The creation of the Committee will be official only after it will be

notified submitting Form n.1. Deadline August 25, 2015


Training

• Training of farmers is very important in this project

• We want to be as equal as possible in giving access to training

• A 3-week intensive course on pig farming will be held in Bambui from September 13 to October 4, 2015.

• One person per village will go there


How to select trainees

1. The Village Committee informs each quarter that they have to select one person as their candidate for going to the training. This person should be a farmer, relatively young, literate, and good at collaborating with the others. Women are especially welcome as candidates.



2. All the candidates from all the quarters hold a meeting with the Village Committee. During this meeting, they will choose one among them who will go to Bambui for the training. It is understood that this person will have to be trusted by the others that he/she will be willing to share with them what he/she has learned during the training.



3. The name of the person who will go to Bambui must be notified to the Project Manager using Form n. 2, which must be submitted by September 10, 2015.


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