Sixty low-income farming families will receive help to become licensed, enabling them to deliver goat milk to a local factory and expand their market.

Support for goat farmers in Santiago del Estero

Summary

Caprines (dairy goats) are a key source of income for rural families in Santiago del Estero. However, many do not meet the standards required to sell their goat milk. Our goal is to solve this issue. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries are sixty families who need to be licensed by the National Animal Health Organization. In order to achieve this, these low income farmers need to comply with the sanitary and structural requirements of the NAHO. Licenses will enable them to deliver goat milk to a local factory and expand their market. The beneficiaries suffer from structural poverty. The majority of them are officially unemployed and have low level of education, poor housing and lack of health services.

Activities

Installation of technological innovations such as cooling systems to preserve the quality of the milk. Financial aid to acquire milking equipment and improve the infrastructure. Technological training. Advice to comply with sanitary requirements.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.fundapaz.org.ar)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The families will have fully equipped and authorized milking rooms that will enable them to sell their production and improve their milk in quality and quantity, and therefore increase their income. Their overall quality of life will be improved

Project Message

“Before, we only destined the milk we produced for self-supply, but now it has become the main source of income for my family so we need to improve our production”
- Julia Lobos, Farmer from Robles, Santiago del Estero

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Juan Diaz,
Executive Director of Fundapaz
Castelli 12 2B
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1031
Argentina
(5411) 4864-8587
Email:

Project Sponsor

HelpArgentina

Organisation

Fundación para el Desarrollo en Justicia y Paz
Castelli 12 2 A
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (C1031AAB)
Argentina
(5411) 4864-8587
http://www.fundapaz.org.ar

Learn more about Fundación para el Desarrollo en Justicia y Paz and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Argentina and can also be found under Animals.

For more information about Argentina, read the Human Development Report on Argentina or the Wikipedia entry for Argentina.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 11, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Continuous Improvement

By Juan Luis Dìaz - Executive Director, October 08, 2009 11:48 AM

During last months, 20 producers executed improvements in their milk production process: fencing, cooling pools and ventilation. These producers belong to a network that provides milk to our Cheese Factory.

Besides, some producers started working on the standardization of the record keepings procedures that will allow better and faster decisions.

Finally, as part of a long term plan of action, we started developing workshops referred to production and quality of milk, in order to continuously improve our processes.

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