During the establishment of Macheo, we were helped enormously by the warm contributions of sponsors and donors. Their donations also meant that we were able to purchase a large plot of land, as well as build a well-equipped children’s home and build on the rest of the site. However, even from the start, we wanted to be less dependent on help from external sources. That is the only way that the children’s home will be assured a stable flow of income in the future.
It is also important for the children’s self-image to see that our earnings are the result of our own hard work and not only as the result of donations from the rich West. With our income-generating products, we are now well on our way to footing a considerable amount of the ongoing costs ourselves.
Our most important income-generating projects are the greenhouses and cow farm.
In 2009, Mambapoint.tv, the platform for small and large-scale development projects, visited Macheo. In the film, Marnix gives viewers a tour of the site and explains the income-generating projects.
p.s. At the beginning of 2010, we stopped with the chicken project because it cost us a lot of time and energy and the bottom line was that it yielded too little…