Summer 2005 Bóthar News
Animal Airlifts
KOSOVO - Spring 2005
Sixty five in calf dairy heifers left our collection centre near Kilmallock Co. Limerick for their journey to Kosovo. Having been airlifted to Pristina they were then transported to our projects around the southern town of Prizren. The heifers were then distributed individually to sixty-five expectant families.
ALBANIA - Spring 2005
On the last day of February this year sixty seven in calf dairy heifers, which had been donated by people all over Ireland, flew out to Tirana in Albania. Albania, which is the poorest country in Europe, is battling its way towards a free market system. Irish dairy cows have been playing a role for poor families there for five years now. This group of heifers was destined for the costal region of Vlora in Albania.
ZAMBIA - Spring 2005
Our first airlift of dairy goats this year went to Zambia. Having established our dairy goat programme in that country last year we were encouraged by its successes and two hundred goats left Wexford at the end of February. They travelled by surface to Gatwick and then flew to Lusaka. One week later they were distributed to excited families who had been preparing for some time to receive them.
Animal Funding
VIETNAM - Spring 2005
We have started a cattle project involving one hundred and twenty families in the Mekong Delta region in association with our U.S partner, Heifer International. In addition to the cattle project, participating families will also be trained in vegetable farming to increase income and in tree farming to improve the environment. As with all of our programmes technical training and services will be provided to help these families help themselves.
ROMANIA - Spring 2005
An estimated nine thousand Romanian children aged nine to thirteen are HIV positive, more than half the number of nine to thirteen year olds affected in Europe. With the national health budget in ruins, most Romanian hospitals are taking children off treatment care for AIDS and limiting laboratory tests and drugs for secondary infections. The daily food allocation for a hospitalised child is 70c, which may put the children at risk of malnourishment. This spring, Bother has started funding a programme that will provide dairy heifers and a milk collection and distribution network. This will ensure that a regular supply of milk is delivered to five children's hospitals and twelve ‘youth at risk' institutions in Romania and Moldova.
ZIMBABWE - Spring 2005
Under the San Peoples Programme, four hundred families will receive five local goats each over the next three years. Formerly hunters and gatherers of wild fruits, herbs and vegetables, the San people have found themselves marginalised and at the bottom of Zimbabwean society in recent decades. Together with the livestock, the recipient families will be given training, seeds to produce suitable fodder and technical services to enable them to lift themselves up out of poverty.
The Bó Vine Summer 2005
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