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INTRODUCTION
Do you think you can donate a piglet to a pilipino family back home to give them extra source of income or livelihood? Your single donation will help not only one family but many more families in the future, and you are almost unaware that it is happening.
Please join us in this piglets recycle program and be amazed by your donation.
You will ask how is it possible to spread this charity to as many families as possible from just one piglet. There is no magic involved nor any secret. The process is so simple. We just take advantage of the productive nature of the pigs and the simple mathematics of investment.
A VERY SIMPLE PROGRAM.
You give free one female piglet breeder to one family. After about one year of raising this pig, plus insemmination, pregnancy and eventual giving births to about 4-16 baby piglets, you require the family to pay back only 2 piglets + 1 to the coordinator, so that these are recycled to another 2 families. On the second year, these 2 families will pay back 4 recycle-piglets. On the 3rd year, these 4 families will pay back 8 recycle piglets. Under a closely monitored program, there will be no end to further recycles in future years. All these can happen from only one original piglet donation. All the families that had been helped are free to do whatever they want with their own piggery livelihood that was started for them by this program. This program will become a phenomenal boost to the local economy as the resident families are given additonal income from this livelihood and their purchasing power will increase for the good of the country.
WHY PIGS
It's amazing what pigs can do to give jobs and livelihood. No other farm animal can compare with lowly piglet as a giveaway animal in terms of potential growth and income. No other farm animal favors any donor or charitable giver in terms of investing on the needy recipients. No other farm animal can produce up to 16 piglets in one birth. Of course, chicken can be equally productive, but it's not as manageable as a give-away farm animal like the piglet. It's easy to build & establish a charitable program around the pig. A pyramid-type of charity could be formulated. A pyramid scheme that will not be for personal benefit or earning income from investments, but a kind of investment in reverse that will grow to help many families. The giving or donation is the one that will multiply to benefit many beneficiaries. Just one seed of charity or one piglet could be made to jump by leaps and bounds over the years because of the multiplier effect. Piglets dispersal is not a new concept or idea. It's been practiced in limited and isolated towns in Philippines for the last 40 years or so. Models were copied from USA and other countries abroad. I had been involved in a small way in similar project in Mindoro promulgated by our local church in Manila in 1998. CAN WE RUN A PIGLETS PROGRAM IN ANY TOWN? Of course! The conditions of lack of jobs and scarce opportunities for livelihood are the same all over the Philippines. Pig is a favorite farm animal and provides a chance for everybody to take advantage of the its inherent productive nature. Untold stories of raising pigs have helped support college education of children in the provinces, at anytime in our history. This alone is proof how valuable pig raising is. Just ask your elders and townmates. The internet is a very useful tool in this time and age. We use it to run our project, specially emails. Without the internet, there will be some difficulties, but not entirely insurmountable. We need reliable local volunteers or group, preferably with people who knows internet. Plain citizens of the town who are acquainted with social programs and with leadership qualities, mature enough and respected in the town are needed. A point man is also needed to act as overseer locally. He will guide the volunteers to select piglets recipients, select other helpers, how to select suppliers and buy the piglets, how to manage the funds entrusted to hm, eventual dispersal, conduct regular visits, take pictures, and submit status reports regularly via emails. As described elsewhere in this manual, the full cooperation and collaboration of these parties are important: 1) donors, 2) local volunteers, and 3) recipients for this project to succeed. Any breakdown of cooperation between all these parties spells doom and failure, but entirely not insurmountable, as solutions can also be done to use alternative parties available in the towns. Due to potential growth of the program, the recipients are important part of the whole exercise. In effect they are considered donors by themselves and have a role to play towards the desired goals. IS OUR PIGLETS PROJECT A FOUNDATION OR CORPORATION? WHY THIS PROJECT? If we are really serious and want to help our country and its people, the piglet recycle program is the best way to do it. We can do it. You and I can. Our group can. Our forum can. One individual Pinoy can do it. One family can. We believe there are many of us who could be considered a little bit lucky and can share our blessings, specially those of us in RP or abroad. Giving a piglet is the easiest and cheapest thing to do. It's also the best charity. Please discover & be amazed. More than any time, the crying need of the Philippines are jobs for its people. What we are trying to say is employment is the number one problem in RP. So we must think of ways to create employment and livelihood within our means or what we can honestly afford and on the basis of our genuine concern. The premise of this exercise is to ask yourself, if what I am saying is true, that there is lack of jobs in the Philippines. We must first admit and recognize this reality for that is the basis of our decision. Please stop and think and commit yourself to this cause. Even the very rich cannot claim that they have unlimited resources. If they want to give including those who are not so rich but want to give and can afford to give, must also be given that chance to maximize the benefits of his giving. If one is given a choice that his ten dollars can benefit 10 people, instead of just 1 person, will he not choose the one that benefits 10 people? That is the essence of the this Piglets Recycle Program that is applicable in any place in the Philippines, for them to apply it in their own hometowns and provinces, because of the low donation involved and yield enormous benefits. BACKGROUND We agreed among our core group, potential donors and friends via exchange of emails that we will help in providing livelihood or means of earning a living to our needy people, specially in the rural areas. We wanted to ignite the local economy. We first admitted to ourselves that many families have no means of livelihood. Many have no jobs, no opportunities, no decent homes, no education, no chance to go abroad, or be employed, have big families in uncontrolled population explosion, which in turn breeds drug abuse, thievery and gambling. We knew and felt that many lucky people both locally and abroad want to help. But they dont like to engage in dole-outs or outright giving, which are self-defeating and have no long term benefits. They would like to help in livelihood or kabuhayan programs that will generate self-sustaining income to the recipient is not necessarily marginalized or poorest of the poor, but not also rich enough to be considered middle-class. The recipient is a partner and future donor himself, because he is required to return 2 breeder piglets after one year when the pig has given birth. These 2 piglets will be given to 2 other recipients.This cycle is repeated, without stopping, year in and year out, with future recipients helping in the process of the cycles. This idea revolutionizes charitable giving. One giving is all that is needed. One seed money is needed. We take advantage of the prolific nature of the pigs, that multiplies to maximun 31 pigllets after 5 years. Just 2 are reserved always for charity. In a nutshell, it means 1 piglet charity today, becomes 2 next year, 4 next, 8 next, 16 next, and so on. This example has total of 1+2+4+8+16 = 31. A $100 donation becomes $3,100 after 5 years, and the donor is not even aware, that he has given such huge help. Plus, the cycle does not even end, and the charity keeps growing. We merely help in the establishment of the program by seeking & selecting the suitable local volunteer in a given place. The program is basically implemented by such volunteers and their teams. We keep tab of the progress of the projects via emails, which are very important in measuring the results. 100% of all donations are given to these local project implementors. Or, we ask donors to remit directly to the local implementors. Please visit some websites of existing projects listed elsewhere, to see how we handle the financial aspects. Our main goal is to stimulate the local economy continuously without end. We give one piglet to a capable recipient-raiser, but requires him to pay back 2 piglets after one year + 1 to the coordinator, when his piglet starts breeding. The purpose of the paid back piglets is to give them to future 2 recipients. We will repeat the same cycle year in and year out without end. This subsequent dispersals or recycles are the main ingredients of this charity project. Any project that does not recycle or disperse any paid-back piglets fall into category of the old practices and will never attain the goal of stimulating the local economy. Besides, not recycling the piglets violates the donor's investment. The donor donated with the understanding that piglets will be recycled to maximize his giving. (Above are taken from http://www.piglets-unlimited.webs.com/) Pls click.