What one goat can do for a kid, a village and a community!

“I am asking you to join me in making this world a better place.”
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— Dante Reminick

Give a Goat Program

The Give a Goat program provides a source of income for kids who have lost their parents or who are in very difficult living situations. Each $135 donated purchases a fertile milk goat for a child or family in need. The program also funds the construction of goat shelters, which safely house goats for $35. Give a Goat is a youth-led nonprofit initiative making social investments in Uganda’s youth. Our goal is to give disadvantaged kids the opportunity to afford both education and nutrition through the gift of a goat.

How it Began: Kids Take Action for Kids
​Thirteen-year-old Dante Reminick from Minneapolis pioneered the Give a goat program in 2013. He raised funds to buy 50 fertile goats and helped distribute them while in the Mbale region of Uganda. Dante’s effort inspired another teenager, Spencer Latterman, from Pittsburgh. In 2014 he and his family raised an amazing $23,000 to purchase goats for children in need. Now entire schools are involved. Let us know if you want to be the one to lead a Give a goat project in your school or your community.

The Business of Dairy Goats

• A dairy goat can be milked twice per day for up to 8 cups of milk per day.
• Milk can be sold for $3.25 per day for families that typically live on less than $1.50 per day.
• Milk can be mixed with porridge to increase its nutritional value to help kids concentrate while at school.
• An adult goat can be sold for more than 2-1/2 times the cost of a baby goat, yielding a significant profit!​

Pictured Above: Give a Goat Recipients and Goat Shelter

Pay it forward
The return on your investment continues to grow … it’s a pay-it-forward project. The kids who are provided with a goat must agree to give a nanny goat born to another child in need, and those children will do the same.

Goats give birth to 1-3 kids every 6 months, 2 kids on average. In six months:
⟩  1 goat becomes 3
⟩  3 goats become 9
⟩  9 goats become 27
⟩  and so on

​1 child able to pay for school fees and books becomes 2 children able to pay for school fees and books. 2 children become 3 children and so on

Read more about JJ, his family and his goat »

Our Impact: Goat Recipients Say Thank You
Buppala community – 50 goats »
Nabugoye community–17 goats received »
Namutumba community– 20 goats received »
Buyanga Primary School – 75 received »

Pictured Above: Give a Goat Recipients

How You Can Help …

Pictured Above: Give a Goat Recipients

Help finance a micro-business
These children can sell their goat’s produce and offspring to pay for living expenses such as food, shelter and school fees. The program also teaches kids to care for something and gives them the ability to give back to the community that has taken them in.

Purchase a goat
One fertile milk goat costs $125. One goat shelter for that goat costs $35.

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Service learning projects
Teachers and students across the country are embracing the Give a goat program for service learning projects. We offer a full suite of learning materials and fund-raising ideas. Learn more.

Meet Tracy, a 13 Year Old Entrepeneur
​Tracy is 13 and in 6th grade. She and her 2 brothers lost their parents when she was very young. She lives with extended family. Her uncle has many of his own children to take care of which means Tracy and her brothers are the last to get food or funds for school supplies. Her uncle could not afford to pay the 3 kilograms of rice to Buyanga Primary School so she did not get to eat lunch. This made concentrating on her studies very difficult with an empty belly.
Since Global Village Connect’s lunch program started at Buyanga Primary School, Tracy and her 2 brothers now eat lunch every day, which allows her to focus on her schoolwork.

​What has one goat done for Tracy? 
In 2017, Tracy received a goat from Global Village Connect’s Give A Goat program.  She said this was the most exciting thing that ever happened to her because it is the first thing she has owned since her parents died. Her goat gave birth twice and each time her goat had a set of triplets! One kid (baby goat) was passed to another student in need and she sold off 4 goats in order to buy a cow. She cared for the cow as well as her goats and recently traded her cow for a small piece of land. She was in tears when talking about the potential for her and her brothers to one day have their own home.
Tracy wants to one day become a teacher at Buyanga Primary School. She has recently bought a calf with the proceeds from her goats that just keep giving.

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