Our TeleFood pond

FAO's TeleFood Fund made this fish pond possible. Three years ago, the younger people in our self-help society dug the pond by hand. TeleFood paid for two wells for water, fingerlings for stocking the pond and enough fish food to get us started. Taking care of it is a group effort.

A volunteer from the Rotary Club taught us how to manage the fish farm. I contribute where it is needed. Usually I help circulate water with a pump so that the water has oxygen in it. I never did that before, but I learned how; it is not hard.

The nets belong to the society, but we contract with a fish seller who comes with his own people to catch the fish and take them to market.