Pigs are an excellent way for a family here to supplement their income and diet. Lots of small  scale farmers do raise pigs, but there area couple of  interesting things that UHDP (the organization we are partners with) does to help farmers with that. One is that they loan a sow to a farmer.  When there are piglets, the farmer has to pay back the program with two pigs for the one he or she receives. This  is a popular animal loan  model originally  developed by Heifer Project, but now used by programs around the world. In this way, the farmer gets a pig for very low cost, and the program gets to keep distributing more animals. The second thing is that UHDP  promotes composting pig pens.