Goat Aid Mindmap
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- Created on: 06-10-15 18:45
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- Goat Aid
- Background
- Gives goats to families and villages
- £25 per goat (often pregnant)
- Bought in country - reduces transport costs and money goes to the country
- Increases local trade
- Gives goats to families and villages
- Advantages
- Manure can be used as crop fertiliser
- Goat milk and meat is an excellent food source - nutrition improves
- Goats breed easily which makes it sustainable
- Milk and babies (kids) can be sold to pay for food and education
- One baby goat (kid) is returned to a bank. The bank allocates goats to local people
- Sustainability
- Goats can reproduce and are then passed on to other families
- Knowledge can be passed on once taught
- Benefits are more than just milk
- Negatives
- Veterinary care is expensive and will be hard to find
- Family has to provide food and shelter for the goat
- Hooves will break up the soil increasing soil erosion during dry seasons
- People need to be taught how to look after the goat properly
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