Buffalo Project
Namasté!
First, we wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR! May Love & Joy enrich your days!
At this moment, Nepal is starting to celebrate its festivals again. The last month, called “POUSH” (from half December until half January) is determined as an unholy month. In this month the religious ceremonies are forbidden.
Namasté!
As Nepal is a country of many traditional festivals, we started celebrating most of them from the end of July.
I would like to enlighten just one of them: GAI JATRA, "The procession of Sacred Cows", which was celebrated on the 6th of August.
The "Gai" refers to "cow" and "Jatra" refers to "gathering in procession".
The initiator of Global Child Welfare, Lut Verlinden, and her husband Tony, sponsor already from 2001 AVIJIT PARIYAR. They were looking for an opportunity to support also his family in another way.
The objective of the project is to give the opportunity to Sarangkot families to buy a buffalo with a so-called ‘soft loan’. A buffalo can improve life standards a lot: they provide milk, and the manure is used to fertilize the soil. Any surplus of milk can be sold.
