Livestock Cooperatives
Owning a goat or sheep is like having money in a savings account.
Livestock can be sold to:
pay for a child’s school tuition
send a sick family member to the hospital
pay for an important family event like a wedding
A Goat Committee in each community oversees the program locally.
They make sure that goats or sheep are given to people with the most need. Leaders in Plain Matin adapted the program to provide sheep instead of goats, a better fit for their cooler climate.
Our Haitian Partners designed the program to carry on.
Each family that receives a female goat will care for her and breed her with the community’s male goat. Then, the first offspring is returned to the Livestock Cooperative to share with another family.
Give livestock in honor of a loved one.
In gratitude, we will provide a card and a hammered steel ornament made by Haitian artisans,
showing the impact that has been made in their name.
Read more about the start of the Goat Project in this Pittsburgh Post Gazette article.