A Limerick consultant engineer, Mr John Garrett (40), who has already raised £60,000 for Third World developments by endurance swims in public pools in each county in Ireland, now hopes to send a dairy goat to each of 2,000 families in Africa. He announced the project for which £500,000 is needed at the Spina Bifida Centre in Limerick when he made a pictorial presentation to the children, who raised £250 to send one of 200 goats to families in Tanzania.
The plan is part of a project by Bothar, the Helping People to Help Themselves movement in Limerick, to offer Tanzanian peasant farmers a long-term practical solution to poverty.
Its honorary secretary, Mr Peter Ireton, said each goat and her offspring would provide milk, meat and fertiliser for many families for years to come.