THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

I thank all four of you fantastic donors for making the LESOTHO PIG PROJECT a reality! And to think that you funded this within a week's time.

Remember to keep an eye on my ONLINE JOURNAL and I'll have an index section called LESOTHO PIG PROJECT. Follow along to see how it is going.

Now, any other donors who come to this page:
You can still help the people in The KINGDOM of LESOTHO. How about getting a water pump to ease the burden of hand-carrying heavy jugs of water up to a mountain village?

Visit my other firstgiving page LESOTHO WATER PROJECT

Thanks so very much on behalf of the people of Ketane,
Andrew Dernovsek
United States Peace Corps Volunteer
The Kingdom of Lesotho

Hello,
First of all, I thank you very much for visiting this page to learn about what I am doing here in Africa with the Lesotho Pig Project.

I'm Andrew Dernovsek (VMI '06) and I'm a US Peace Corps volunteer. I'll be in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho, AFRICA for the next two years.  I live in a rondoval (mud hut) and my village of Mafikeng is an 8 hour drive over very bad roads from the capital city, Maseru, Lesotho. I have internet when I can get to Maseru (about every 2 months) and I can get enough of a cellphone signal to receive text messages by making my weekly 3 hour climb up a nearby mountain. So, I am "country" for sure and I can't phone you from here to ask for your help on this project.

 For an update on me and my experiences in Africa, visit my blog, News from Lesotho but then come back to this page to see if you want to help get this worthwhile project started.

When I arrived 3 months ago in Mafikeng, Lesotho, I noticed that some village families did own a pig- a single pig, which they would  "fatten up", eat and then wait for money to buy another pig. No one in Mafikeng is raising pigs despite the fact that pigs(swine) are an important commodity for the entire country. They are an invaluable source of protein and nutrition for the locals.  The goal of the Lesotho Pig Project is to buy a few piglets and begin a self-sustaining, income-generating pig farm to teach the villagers the benefits of breeding, raising and selling pigs.

We have our pig sty built and are ready to buy swine and get started as quickly as possible-I'd like to buy the piglets within the next few months...and remember that I'm only here a short two years.

 You can easily be a sponsor for this project. I am grateful to the Foundation for International Professional Exchange (FIPE) for accepting tax-deductible donations for the Lesotho Development Initiative, of which the Lesotho Pig Project is one endeavor. Donating online through this website is simple, fast and totally secure.

If you prefer to contribute by check, please make it out to: FIPE-LDI and on the "for" line, put Lesotho Pig Project then mail it to:
Sherrie Howey
Foundation for International Professional Exchange
6667 3 R Road
Beulah, CO 81023

Thank you  for your support  of the Lesotho Pig Project. Just think, you can pigfarm, vicariously from the comfort of home! Stay up-to-date on the project by visiting News from Lesotho periodically.

Also, please forward this to anyone who you think might want to help with this effort.
Andrew Dernovsek