Breaking Piggery Ground

During the annual meeting of Silent Voices on July 18, a ceremonial ground-breaking took place on the piggery land. Participating were representatives of Silent Voices, Lions Club Bergen Student, Lions Club of Bushenyi and a member of the Ugandan Parliament, among others.

'silent voices' itself joins in...

hallo all,

This is 'Silent Voices' life from Bushenyi... in a big search how all this wonderful technology and means of communication are to work... So far so good... discovered how to log in, and under which name... got to the 'new post'... so here we are!!

next will be how to actually post it, place photo's etc.. but ... We are up for it!!

Pictures of the Piggery Land in Bushenyi

The piggery land is located across the road from the Kabagarame meat market, which will be the main outlet for the meat produced at the farm.

Lions Club Bergen Student were very happy to see the land!

Lions Club Bergen Student together with Lions Club of Bushenyi.

An adjacent swamp area from which the piggery will get its supply of water.

About Silent Voices

'Silent Voices' is a community-based organization in Bushenyi District situated in the South/West of Uganda.

Parents - and caretakers of Deaf Children in this district have formed this CBO with the vision

That in Bushenyi District Deaf Children are treated the same as Hearing Children in anyway and not be stigmatized

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The Piggery

The goal of Pro: Piggery is to enable the members of Silent Voices to generate enough income to finance the basic running costs of their own organization.

By constructing a piggery just outside Bushenyi Town, and staffing it with members of the organization, we are giving all parties involved the opportunity to help themselves and become environmental role models in the local community. As compensation for the work they put in, each parent gets to take a piglet home with them, which they can raise on their own, thereby making it possible for them to improve their own homestead through the skills they have gotten from working at the piggery.

At the end of a two-year project period, the piggery will have become an integral part of Silent Voices, and a reliable source of income, ensuring the sustainability of the organization.

Sponsors

Pro: Piggery has received generous support from a number of donors, without whom we would not have been able to make this project a reality. These sponsors are:

• Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF)
• Lions National Help Fund, Lion Mints
• Students in Bergen who supported Lions Club Bergen Student's "Svin til jul?" campaign in 2008.
• Lions Club Ringebu-Fåvang
• Lions Club Bergen Vest
• Lions Club Oppdal
• Lions Norway's Governors Council
• Nordea
• Visma Services Norge AS
• BDO Noraudit
• Clamp On AS
• Studio 5 Dekor AS

We would also like to thank Lions Club Askøy for donating a brand new computer to Silent Voices, and Lion Torbjørn Åsheim for his generous financial contribution. LC Norheimsund has also made a generous donation towards getting Silent Voices an additional computer.