Food For The Poor (FFTP) Guyana Inc and Partners of the Americas Farmer to Farmer Program concluded an organisational management workshop yesterday and 15 successful Mahai-cony farmers received their certificate of participation.
The programme was held to boost the capacity of the Central Mahaicony Perth Village Farmers
Association. The sessions were facilitated by Kaitlan Mahoney; a US-based volunteer recruited by Partners of the Americas, a release from FFTP Guyana said.
Speaking at the ceremony Chief Executive Officer of FFTP Guyana, Kent Vincent praised the farmers as he spoke on the importance of the work they do daily.
Kelvin Craig, Country Director at Partners of the Americas, Farmer to Farmer, Guyana noted
that this country has been benefitting from funding from the project under the USAID for several decades.
While it was a first-time collaboration between FFTP Guyana and his organization, he pledged his continued support to the organisation and the Central Mahaicony Perth Village Farmers Associa-tion.
“You have to work together, remember all you have learned over the last five days, and keep on growing because it is all about empowerment. We are here and we are not going anywhere and we want to see progress,” Craig posited.
Mahoney explained in the release that the purpose of the training was to take the Mahaicony Perth Vill-age Farmers Association and allow them to regain their confidence, noting that they were a strong and dedicated association.
Mahoney also said, “I have no doubt that this group will get back into the pig production, they will get back into the ham production and I have no doubt that this group will find the right market and I look forward to
following the progress. I think the most important strategy was the willingness to include youths,
it is very important that the knowledge this group has, they share and pass on and empower the
youths to be very proud of where they come from.”
Over the course of the five days which commenced on January 26, 2023, the release said that the farmers benefited from SWOT analysis, which is expected to better aid them in understanding their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities, organizational structure, roles and responsibilities, leadership, vision plan, and action points on how to achieve long and short-term goals.
The farmers all agreed that the programme was refreshing. As it relates to the weaning of piglets, they explained that the method in which they were taught, will now see them doing less work and earning more.
The Perth farmers with the trainer and officials of the two organisations
