UN Commends Send a Cow’s Work in Lesotho
EU - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has praised Send a Cow for its contribution to a major project in Lesotho, in southern Africa.
15 June 2007
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has praised Send a Cow for its contribution to a major project in Lesotho, in southern Africa.
Send a Cow has been organising teams of ‘peer farmers’ to live in communities in the Mafeteng district.
Since April 2006, the charity has trained 1,900 families in sustainable agriculture and group dynamics. Family members in turn are passing on the same techniques they learned from Send a Cow to fellow community members.
In a letter to Send a Cow Team Leader, Khotso Mapapesa, FAO Country Representative Juliet Aphane said she had found Send a Cow Lesotho’s “innovative strategies and techniques to be very appropriate for protecting and improving livelihoods”.
She expressed hope that the partnership would continue in the project’s second phase, which should involve distributing livestock, like rabbits, goats and poultry, and extending work to another district.
