Stories of Hope: Pig Rearing Project

The President of the Pig Project in Rwanda shared the ways in which the Giving Hope Empowerment Project has impacted their lives during a visit with a January 2009 ZOE Team. He said the most important thing is that they have been given a chance to fight loneliness because Giving Hope encourages them to work together as a team. Through their Working Groups, they love and support each other like family. Together, they help solve their problems and develop business plans.

In 2007, the ZOE Pig Rearing Project began as an income-generating business with 3 adult pigs. Today, the project benefits the many families represented by the leaders in this picture. The project is also now supported at the local government district level, which provides additional pigs. Together, they built a guard house and shelter for the pigs. As new piglets are born, each family receives one. Additional piglets are sold for profit for the whole group to share.

Many members of this ZOE Working Group had to drop out of secondary school to raise their siblings. Their president praised God for all that they have learned and earned through vocational training provided through Giving Hope. They continue to support one another through the struggles to raise money for school fees so that their siblings may stay in school.

The group is also concerned about orphans who are not in the Giving Hope Program. The president said Giving Hope children have clean homes and clean bodies. They work hard to share what they have been given and what they have learned so that orphans outside the program may receive the same blessings they have received.

To read more about their efforts to help children that they call “their babies” read The Ituze Restaurant story.