Our TeleFood project

To earn extra money, I joined a project two years ago: raising pigs and selling the piglets. Here is the pigpen. We built it ourselves with material provided by FAO's TeleFood programme.

We got zinc sheets, cement, steel bars, sand and concrete blocks. We were six in our group. The women dug the foundation and the men built the pigpen. We got five pigs, four females and one male.

I heard about TeleFood from my girlfriend Santa Cedeño, who heard about it from the local office of the Ministry of Agriculture. Santa said we were going to learn how to grow pigs, to feed them cassava, corn and sugar cane that we could grow ourselves.