In March 2024, Children in the Wilderness and Wilderness Rwanda facilitated the donation of 55 goats to individual families in the Akayange Community just outside Akagera National Park. This distribution was made possible by kind donations from guests visiting Wilderness in Rwanda.
The Akayange Community committee assisted our team members Aline and Damascene with the organisation of the event that took place in the Rumuri Zone of the village.
This is the third such donation in our one-goat-per-family project, after 78 goats were donated to residents in 2021, followed by 57 goats in 2022.
The most inspiring aspect of the donations is that the families agree to give their first-born goats to another disadvantaged family, who in turn give their first-born goat to the next family in need. In an ongoing cycle, every first baby goat born is donated, and the project keeps supporting itself.
Through this system, 190 families have now received a goat from Wilderness, who in turn have made many more families happy with their offspring!
The goats are valuable not just for their milk and meat, but also for their manure, used in their farming.
The village leaders and the residents in the community expressed their heartfelt thanks to Wilderness, Children in the Wilderness and Magashi’s guests!
