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Dairy Farming, pig rearing, bee keeping, chicken farming, raising and selling goats for milk and/or meat - all of these initiatives increase nutrition and generate greater income for households taking care of and providing support to orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS in GAA programs. GAA provides funding and technical training to enable households and communities to integrate local resources for their animal husbandry projects, and move towards self-reliance.
For example, in northern Tanzania around the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, GAA has worked with 12 community cooperatives to establish a very successful pig-rearing program. With profits made from the sale of pigs, one of the cooperatives works with 30 guardians from local primary school to take care of over 50 orphans. This same cooperative has also started to provide seed capital to widows and individuals affected by HIV/AIDS and to guardians caring for OVC to start their own income-generating activity or small business. This is an instance of economic strengthening and sustainable community development at its best - local people helping their own community members not only increase income, but provide support to orphans and vulnerable children who need it most.
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