Mikrofinanz-Projekt kommt zu Nusa Penida Insel Bali

AUGUST 15, 2013 – Freunde des Nationalparks Stiftung (FNPF) new goat farming microfinance project aims to help improve the lives of a group of villagers on Nusa Penida island.

We shipped 50 goats to Nusa Penida, just off the coast of mainland, the home of unsere Vogelschutzgebiet, in June. The goats, a mix of males and females, worden, um ausgeliehen haben 23 Kleinbauern im Süden von der Insel.

Dieser Vater und Sohn unter den von Saren Dorf auf der Insel Nusa Penida, vor der Küste von Bali Festland, who will benefit from our new goat microfinance project.

Goats on a two year loan

We’ve lent the farmers these goats to breedthey can then rear the offspring and eventually sell the animals for their meat,” said FNPF’s CEO and Founder Dr Bayu Wirayudha. “The idea is to provide the farmers with an extra income source and so help improve their standard of living.

For each goat they are given the farmers must return a new goat to us – of the same size and sex – in two years’ time. The project is designed so that the goats are given to groups of farmers, rather than to individuals, so there’s collective responsibility for their wellbeing.

Home of our bird sanctuary

FNPF, with the backing of the island’s villages turned Nusa Penida into a one-of-a-kind sanctuary for birds in 2006. For more than seven years we have been working on the island to rebuild numbers of the Balistar, one of the most worlds’ most endangered birds and Bali’s emblem. Back when we started there were believed to be fewer than 10 birds surviving in the wild in Bali, today there are estimated to be more than 100 living on the island.

“Wir glauben, dass Naturschutzprojekte haben ganzheitlichen zu sein, um wirksam zu sein, und so müssen die lokalen Gemeinden beteiligt. On Nusa Penida we run development programs designed to improve community wellbeing, including projects, like this one, , durch die Menschen über umweltfreundliche Wege, um ein Leben zu machen lernen,” , sagte Dr. Wirayudha.

Ändern Lebensgrundlage für Einheimische

Made Sintu, one of the farmers benefiting from the project, has been looking after some of the goats for six weeks. Er sagte, es gab viel, um die Tiere zu füttern und so weit war es nicht schwer gewesen, zu lernen, wie man sich um sie kümmern.

The Saren village farmer, who supports a wife and eight children, makes his living from farming a cow, chickens and pigs. Er hofft, dass seine Beteiligung an dem Projekt würde dazu beitragen, dass sein Leben ein wenig leichter.

Einige der 50 goats we have sent to Nusa Penida to help improve the livelihoods of Saren village farmers.

Rotary backing for project

The goat microfinance project is funded by the Rotary Club Bali Seminyak, who recently visited Nusa Penida to check progress. “I was surprised and impressed with all these fantastic goat cages (the farmers have built) – I thought it would be more simple actually – I was very impressed,” said club member Peter Erni, who is coordinating the project for Rotary. “It’s an interesting program.

The Rotary Club of Bali Seminyak also funds FNPF’s scholarships for students on Nusa Penida and is this year donating to help run our student art recycling competition, Teil der indonesischen Independence Day Feierlichkeiten auf Nusa Penida in diesem Monat.

Dr Wirayudha said if FNPF is able to secure further funding it hopes to extend the goat farming microfinance project to other villages on the island.

Wenn Sie daran interessiert, in diesem Mikrofinanz-Projekt beteiligt sind, bitte kontaktieren Sie uns unterinfo@fnpf.org oder Sie können uns anrufen auf +62 361 977 978.


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