Goats

Indigenous African goats are not dairy animals and are rarely milked in Africa. They produce about a cupful of milk per day. Irish dairy goats produce as much as 5 times as their local counterparts which is why we send them.

You are about to purchase a share of an Irish dairy goat. This is what your gift will do. 

An in-kid dairy goat will produce enough to enable the family to enjoy milk in their diet and raise money from the sale of extra milk and cheese.

Families who receive dairy goats from Bóthar would often not have enough land to support a larger animal, so your gift of a dairy goat will go to the poorest of the poor. Dairy goats are very well suited to our East African project countries; they also thrive in our projects in Eastern Europe. They will kid each year, and because they often produce twins, a farmer can quickly start to build up a small herd. Giving a gift of a dairy goat to a family in Rwanda or Tanzania would change the lives of a struggling family forever.