What are your day-to-day activities? 

I have many different daily activities but here are three main ones: 

1. 1. Regular vaccination programmes, treatment, and providing technical support for families. 

1. 2. Routine deworming (at least once every three months) to improve growth and weight gain for pigs and piglets, increase reproduction performance, reduce disease and mortality rate and increase farmer (parent) profit.

1. 3. Attending Parent Support Group meetings on a monthly basis to encourage savings and reinvestment, create of small income-generating activities (this helps boost household incomes while the parents’ network supports the wellbeing of the families). 
      

What do you like most about your job? 

I love to see the real and visible impact, for example seeing families move from extreme poverty to self-reliance and children returning to school and staying. I regularly see improved dignity and hope for the families we work with, and stories of transformation (for example, children with disabilities recieving better care than before).

It is great to see sustainable livelihood growth and community development (seeing a reduction of social exclusion of families of children with disabilities) and of course, the emotional satisfaction that comes with this job – the joy of changing lives for families we work with.

Delivering pigs to new families.

How have you seen families’ lives changed through the Big Pig project? 

Before providing pigs, parents of children with disabilities often struggled to meet the basic needs for their children due to lack of fees. But now, the Big Pig Project has significantly improved household income, food security, school attendance, confidence, dignity and participation in both community and family life.

What do you hope for the future of the Big Pig Project? 

Through the Big Pig Project, my hope is that it continues to be a real tool to improve the wellbeing of children with disabilities and their families. Through Big Pig, household income can be increased by pigs or piglet sales, families can be economically empowered, and sustainable livelihood improvement can occur. Overall, through Big Pig Project, vulnerable families including families of children with disabilities we work with can move from survival to a stable life. Children will be back in school and stay. Parents will earn income and, most importantly, hope will be restored.