OUR GOATS TURN INTO PIGS
Upon arriving at the Jjokoerla AIDS and Orphans Village, it was decided among the council of the village that they would like to purchase three month old pigs on this trip instead of the planned goats. With the money donated, we were able to have a six-room brick home (and no bad wolf will blow this pig’s brick house down!) with cement floor built to house the newly purchased 10 female exotic pigs and 1 male pig. Our little female pigs will be mothers at 10 months. From then on, they will able to birth 7-15 pigs twice a year! Wow! That an average of 100 pigs in less than one year. Keeping only the female pigs, each male pigs will bring a whopping $52 dollars at the market. One male pig sold is almost twice the amount of the average monthly income in Uganda. With the profit of these males pigs, the village will build a full size pig house, able to accommodate over 100 pigs, thus increasing their business and profit.