Matthew's Pig Farm Uganda

Donations will be greatly appreciated!! 

OUR STORY, MATTHEW AND MERLIN AND I. 

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We have known Matthew since 2012 and he has not asked for money, which is why we want to create the campaign for him. Even though he might be sick or out of a job, he has always just been a good friend. We sent some books to him I think in 2014. We sent him a $100 phone because he dropped his in the water; that was January 2016. Life would not be fun without talking to Matthew ever again.   

Since he has had such a large impact on our life, we want to do everything that we can for him in return. 

Then he was really sick in April 2016. He went to the clinic but he just kept getting sicker and sicker. Finally in June 2016 we got in touch with a friend in Masaka and he helped Matthew get to Masaka and to the hospital. He survived a severe case of Malaria. But there he was, in Masaka without a job. Our friend employed him until his full recovery which was quite some time. After his recovery, Matthew was trying to decide what to do. School was not an option without money.

He had told us of his interest in becoming a Veterinarian. Not having the money for the school., Merlin suggested he might go into farming. Matthew made an extensive research into what would be the best for him in his area and decided on raising pigs. Merlin had a little Internet business that occasionally made money. We offered some of that money to Matthew to purchase some pigs and hold them on our mutual friend's property.

Eventually we helped him purchase a piece of ground nearby, and some more pigs, and some lumber for cages. Matthew has always been helpful in including people. He has expressed his concern for the lack of water in their area. It is so expensive to use the piped in to your yard. He wanted to collect rain water to use for his pigs during the long drought months and share with his neighbors.

DONATIONS WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
We need help your for our Mbaraga Matthew, who lives in Uganda. He has a very small piggery and wants to stay out of the poverty cycle. He wants to be self sufficient.  Your support will mean Matthew can marry Christine, his childhood sweetheart. Your support will mean Matthew can have a family which doen't live in poverty. Your donations will mean Matthew can help build up his community. Your support is greatly needed. 
And you can help as soon as possoble. Please make a charitable donation soon!
Mbaraga Matthew is a 29 year old Rwandan man who has made it through the Rwanda Genocide, poverty, and illnesses to come out still fighting for his rights as a human being to have a life and pull himself out of the poverty cycle. We have bought him some land and pigs, so he has a small pig farm,  but he needs more help.  Matthew  needs your help to really succeed. We have run out of money but this is a righteous cause. He wants to be self srfficent and also help his community. These charitable donations will help his whole community.  You will see in the Project Expansion. 

Back History
About four years ago we befriended a school teacher/bursar from Rwanda, but living in Uganda, Africa. As we became more acquainted, it came to our attention that he had lost his supportive brothers during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. His mother saved him two times as a 6 year old child in the Rwanda genocide.
They are still finding  bones from the Genocide in the area where Matthew lived. Here is an article from 2011.
 Over 130 Genocide victims' remains laid to rest in Huye 

After the genocide of 1994, he lived in poverty, malnutrition, malaria, and abuse from people hungry and sick also.  As a child he wore the same jacket for 4 years, never taking it off for fear of it being stolen. On the road to get food, water, and firewood, Matthew was terrorized and beaten daily. His mother was old, but helped with a bit of a garden.  His mother passed away in 2012.

Matthew has no relative left. The Genocide took his some of his family. Others died of illness. For safety reasons he is now living in Uganda. He is intelligent, hard working, and trying to get ahead. He was not able to even feed himself on what he earned as a school teacher/bursar and lived in a room that looked like a outbuilding. He wants to be self sufficient. 
You can please help him with this by your donations. 


 He wants to be a small holder farmer, and earn a living that would support a family. He has made a real study of pig farming and how it will help him become self sufficient and contribute to his community. We decided to help him fund the pig farm. We also learned that others were trying to help poverty through charitable donations.  So when we ran out of money we thought of crowd funding. Matthew wants to help by establishing a pig farm as an industry and then teaching others to help themselves into self sufficiency. We have bought property for him and starter pigs. It appeared to us that some additional capital was needed. Matthew is needing more monetary support to finish up the piggery. Then he would be able to help others in the area trying to become established in the industry.

Here is where you can help! There is selling of the pigs, raising piglets, fertilizing, slaughtering, having a tank for rainwater to help other families. The droughts are severe where he is and he could help others with a big tank. It now appears to us that with the establishment of Mathew's pig farm, he would be in a good place to offer guidance to others and a great good could be done for the people there in Uganda, in making them self sufficient.

Matthew's Schooling
In 1998 Matthew, age 8 years, went to a Catholic School sponsored by the government. Another student gave him a broken slate to use. He did well.
From 1998 to 2007 Matthew attended school and when he attended he did well. However he suffered still from problems of poverty; lack of food, water, and then illnesses because of poverty. Because of this he was absent often. 

From 2008 to 2011 Matthew went to more advanced schools, but still in a difficult situation because of poverty, malnutrition, illnesses, he had still had absences from school. When Matthew attended, he did well.
It was during these years he met his childhood sweetheart. They are planning on marrying soon.
Matthew was able to get a job as a bursar and teacher in 2012. But his salary wasn't enough to keep him even barely alive. This is when we met.
He was sick all the time and had contaminated water and not much food. He was trying to go to school again to improve his position. He raised two cows to pay his tuition fees for Uganda University. But he wasn't able to raise enough to keep going. He always did well when he attended. 
Finally he was so sick with malaria that I was worried he would die. He didn't have friends there. But we had a friend in Masaka. We emailed him and our friend helped Matthew get to Masaka and to the hospital.
From there we have helped Matthew establish a pig farm. But we are not wealthy and have run out of money. There are so many things he still needs to make his way out of the poverty cycle.

Donations will be greatly appreciated. 
We could really use some help for Matthew who is trying to overcome having lived during the Genocide and overcome poverty by establishing himself as a pig farmer. It is a good business in Uganda. Charitable donations will be greatly appreciated!

PROJECT EXPANSION (PIGS) by Mbaraga Matthew
NEEDS:
- Finishing the pen
- Additional Fertilized sows
- Fencing of the parcel
- Water Tank
- House
- Truck/Vehicle
- workers

1. FINISHING THE PEN
The pen is not finished, the cages are covered that the pigs can live in but there is not enough security, the pigs can jump and go outside of the building, there is a part for the piglets, it is all surrounding place, it is not covered anyhow now,
Materials needed to finish:
1. woody branches=500 branches of shs.2,000/1branch for Shs.1,000,000
2. Nails=8kgs of shs.3,500/1kg for Shs.28,000
3. Cement =8bags of 31,000/1bag for Shs.217,000
4. 1 trip of sand= Shs.80,000
5. 1 trip of stones= Shs.250,000
6. Labor works= Shs.100,000
TOTAL1= Shs.1,675,000

2. ADDITIONAL FERTILIZED SOWS
After studying that this method of buying the fertilized sows is the best way to get easily on the pig production. I want to start with a few number of sows that after buying them after one month I will have the piglets, where I will be able to sell or pick some of them to stay in pen and be raised by substituting the ones which are not growing well or those who are looking like the ones which will not give a good quality of production.
Sows needed to start with:
- Fertilized sows= 5 sows of Shs.850,000/1 sow for Shs.4,250,000
- Transportation from PPG's farm from Kampala-Wakisso to Masaka town= Shs.200,000
TOTAL2= Shs.4,450,000
3.FENCING OF THE PARCEL
Fencing is important for this parcel. it will protect the entering of the stranger animals coming with diseases or ones coming to consume the food of the pigs, like chickens liking to come in the pigs. It will be there for the security also that my pigs and their food  will not be easy to be stolen.
1.Wire fencing coils needed= 7 coils of Shs.150,000/1coil for Shs.1,050,000
2.Long wires to use in fixing the joint= 9 coils(one of 12meters 0f lenght) of Shs.6,000/1coil for Shs.54,000
3.Poles of trees= 30 trees 0f Shs.7,000/1tree for Shs.210,000
4.Nails=5kgs 0f Shs. 3,500/1kgs for Shs.17,500
5.Labor works=Shs.80,000
TOTAL3=Shs.1,411,500
N.B: a) the parcel has 100 Meters of perimeter
b) 1 coil of wire fencing is 18m of lengh/ 2 m of height
4.WATER TANK
I have a roof of 70 iron sheets, it has one connecting faucet as it is structured, it has heavy water of rain, if I get a big tank, it can help me in feeding and cleaning for the pigs instead of using to buy water. The tank of 10m3 can work for 3months in sunshine season, means that I can use the water from the tank year to year because the long season of sunshine likes to take 3-4 months, from the end of May to the beginning of September.
- 1 Tank of 10m3=10,000Liters, it is for Shs.3,500,000
- building where to fix it and transportation= Shs.150,000
TOTAL4=Shs.3,650,000
5. HOUSE
From now days, I am renting the house to live in, and I am hiring a night watchman for security. I am using the a lot of money for transportations fees to get at work at the parcel everytime, sometime I fail to feed or to perform other activities there in time because of the distance and seasons' challenges. if I get a house there and get settled in parcel it will be helpfull in all.
The cost of a house of 45 iron sheets:
1. 45 iron sheets of Shs.50,000/1 iron sheet for Shs.2,250,000
2. 13 trips of bricks of 200,000/ 1 trip for Shs.2,600,000
3. 10 trips of sand of 80,000/1 trip for Shs.800,000
4.2 trips of stones of Shs.250,000 for Shs.500,000
5. Cement= 70 bags 0f Shs.31,000/1Bag for 2,170,000
6. toilet=Shs.2,000,000
7. floor plastering =Shs.2,000,0000
8.doors and windows Shs.2,500,000
9. paints and finishing Shs.2,000,000
10.Electricity and water installations= 2,000,000
11. labor works= Shs.2,000,0000
TOTAL5=Shs.20,820,000
6.  PICKUP TRUCK
Transportation is hard and expensive as I do it without a truck to help me, it is good if I have it. it will help me transporting food, pigs to the market or from market to home, a truck is good that it carries a lof of things in quantity for saving the costs of fuels and time. I have to hire these trucks and it is expensive. I only need a pickup truck. 
- A new truck=Shs.13,000,000
TOTAL6=Shs.13,000,000
Hired truck. I only need a pickup truck.

7. WORKERS
Here there is a lot of work that I need workers to help me in all.  At least two additional workers for helping in many activities there in the pen including cleaning the pen, washing the pigs, feeding the pigs.
- 2 workers of Shs.100,000/1 month for each in 6 months for Shs.(600,000)2=Shs.1,200,000
TOTAL7=Shs.1,200,000
GRAND TOTAL=Shs.46,206,500= $14,002.00
This pig was really sick and Matthew saved him. So everytime Matthew comes to feed the pigs, this one stands up to great him with pig squeels. 
Your help is needed Now! Any contribution will be greatly appreciate, no matter how small or large. Thank you so much.