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
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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
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Pigs For Pikin project explained to Lower
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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.
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First thing: training
• Trained and devoted farmers in Lower Fungom are our main
guarantee that the project will be successful.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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!
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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…
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…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.
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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.
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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.
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One possibility
Group 1:
Western Lower Fungom
Ajumbu, Biya, Kung,
Munken, Ngun (and Small
Mekaf)
Group 2:
Central Lower Fungom
Abar, Buu, Mashi, Missong,
Mufu, and Mundabli
Group 3:
Eastern Lower Fungom
Koshin and Fang
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Anyway, it will be up to
your Village Committees
to find the best way to go
about this.
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What is sure is…
… that the success of this project
depends on your will to
COLLABORATE between villages.
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We will bring pigs and knowledge…
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…close to a group of villages…
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…to support education.
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This is possible only if you cooperate
among yourselves
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So it will bring more and more…
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But if you will not cooperate in looking
after the pigs and the pig pen
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And if you will not protect all this
from bad people
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You will be the ones losing the most
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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 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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Who can NOT be part of a Committee?
• The village Chief
• Persons who have been charged with
accusations of theft or other serious crimes.
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You should create your own Village
Committee as soon as possible,
in any case no later
than August 25
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The creation of the Committee
will be official only after it will be
notified submitting Form n.1.
Deadline August 25, 2015
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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