© 2010 JOY Goat Development Programme

Deliverance Church

JOY Goat Development Programme is a department of Deliverance Church Uganda, which grew from underground Christian cells in the days of Idi Amin, and now has over 200 churches nationwide. Schools, clinics and other practical ministries of DC all have the name ‘JOY’:

Jesus first

Others next

Yourself last

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Home base

Our home district is Masaka, and here we are directly fostering farmers groups, which we supply with stud males to enable them to breed their own dairy goats.  We do not work directly with individuals, or even single villages, but with clusters of villages, which will be able to sustain their own breeding programme in the long-term  

At present there are 6 such clusters, and we intend to extend this to between 12 and 15 by the end of 2012.

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A brief History

Partnerships

The long-term aim of the Programme is to develop a breed of diary goat which is productive but also adapted to Ugandan conditions. This is only feasible if there is a large breeding population - larger than we are able to create through our own farmers’ groups.

So we are looking for other organisations who will work with us in this programme.  At present there are already 3, and others are under consideration. We would be pleased to receive other requests.

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JOY Youth Training Centre

JOY GDP grew out of JOY Youth Training Centre. As part of its Learn & Earn Programme to get young people back into school, it developed a demonstration farm of dairy goats. Because of the comprehensive records that went with them, these goats were in demand from other projects and individuals. And not just the goats, but also the expertise that had been built up on the farm and within the associated community projects. In 2009 the Goat Development programme was set up to enable this expertise to be disseminated more effectively.

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