Partial payment terms. SPHU has over the years provided such services to organisations and individuals alike. However livestock credit schemes, unlike any other have delicate conditionalities of payment. To date SPHU is developing project structures that will help us indulge our potential sponsors more in our projects activities and there after handle donations from various organisations worldwide. Only then will we be able to support individual farmers with simple conditionalities and further either give them animals at subsidised prices or distribute them to our target groups. Today we are concentrating on doing marketing of animals for our breeders throughout the country so that these New small scale farmers can be able to send their children to school and afford better health care services for their families. We have our own breeding stock but they are parent stock awaiting the first phase of SPHU release. CLARITY SPHU today selects the best breeds of heifers from our farmers'farms, hold them at our holding grounds and supply them to organisations, suppliers and individual farmers. What does this mean exactly? It means that we keep paying out checks to farmers either before or after sales, keep records of animals sold to new farmers so that when they too finally wish to sale some of the animals they have breed from their parent stock we know exactly what breeds we are dealing with and can offer agood price so that they give their all during breeding without compromising on animals' health condtions ,feeding and inserminated breed quality. How does this relate to your situation? SPHU has setup two ways of obtaining animals on credit. 1. A new farmer pays a 60% down payment on animals purchased, the balance being payable with in a months' time for single purchases, and is backed by a post dated check. 2 A farmer is required to pay a 70% down payment for Multiple purchases , say 50/300 boergoats or 5 / 100 pregnant heifers. We offer a 2 months grace period backed by a post dated check . What do we offer with the sale? 1. Free loading / transportation of livestock with in Kampala 2. Free animal transportation document processing 3. Free initial training on handling of animals by persons receiving them 4. We allow clients to bring Vet doctors to conduct health checks and or carry out PDA Pregnancy checks on animals they have selected but only after these animals have been paid for{in case of pregnancy Verification. This is so because it would be unhealthy for the animals if we were to allow everyone who expressed interest in buying any of our pregnant animals to conduct pregnancy tests. it is even more dangerous for those animals that are late in their pregnancies. PLEASE VIEW ACTIVITIES OF SPHU OVER THE YEARS Send a pregnant Heifer Uganda(SPHU) , started out as a wholly owned subsidiary of RAcell Uganda, registered and operating in Uganda. RAcell Uganda was set up in 2001 as a result of the merger between (GEEC) GLOBAL ENERGY; ENVIROMENT CONSULT and RAcell Denmark. The merger was instructed by the DANIDA Private Sector Foundation and the Danish Royal Embassy that henceforth provided funding for the initial projects that included; 1. Development and supply of low cost solar energy packages to reduce environment degradation and save family expenditure on hydro electric power , with emphasis on manufacture and assembly of solar panels here in Uganda. 2. Supply of low cost Biogas energy packages to reduce environment Degradation and save family expenditure on fuel. 3. Supply of low cost Biomass energy saving stoves packages for schools and institutions to reduce encroachment on the environment and save expenditure on fuel. 4. Supply of low cost incinerators packages for schools, Institutions and hospitals to improve health through improved waste disposal. In November 2003 the initial pilot project for RAcell Uganda came to an end. This project was supposed to run for three years and it succeeded in improving the lives of thousands in schools, hospitals and villages in Uganda. Between November 2003 and September 2004 when our initial sponsors left for Denmark after the completion of their project, focus was moved to include livestock. Tremendous amount of work went into research and laying out structures granting that we were operating on a private miniature budget. We spent months researching potential success of livestock animals within varying communities, developing relationships with established Farmers and other local partners and evaluating the level of interest in each community by talking to past beneficiaries of NGO livestock “GIFTS” some of whom had lost their animals to disease, others had varying complications. Even then , some had successful ventures. The process was lengthy and complicated, and the decision of when and where to open new Programmes were never an easy one! We decided to get a feel of the activities of organisations that deal with livestock, so between 2005 and 2007, we started supplying NGOs, private suppliers and some government organisations with quality livestock, because of our limited funding. Supply of these animals to government organisations, NGOs and private suppliers helped us understand all the intricacies of livestock management. We supplied animals in Mbale, Arua,Kayunga Nebbi, Mukono, Kaberamaido, Amolata,Tororo, Kapchora, Wanseko,Enttebe,Lira e.t.c. During these trips we,on behalf of some NGOs,and organisations selected quality animals from the various farmers we had made contact with over the years, procured, transported livestock to recipient farmers, administered immunisation of animals, delivered to the farmers and given them initial training about handling of livestock. We also attracted private farmers and, just like we did with private suppliers , NGO and government livestock project clients,we taught them how to build farm infrastructure , trained them in Handling of animals, e.g. feeding, helping animals at birth, bucket feeding, steaming of the animals before birth, records keeping, selection of quality animals for breeding, detection and seclusion / treating animals affected by serious diseases like brucellosis from amongst their healthy herds. We taught them about the importance of spraying the animals weekly, dangers of slaughtering sick animals or animals that are under medication, importance of deworming animals every after 3 months, importance of improving productivity of animals by artificial insemination with first class animal breed provided by credible inseminators, Treating mild illnesses especially farmers in remote areas like BONDO,AMOLATA etc where it would take a long time for a vet doctor on call to arrive. Above all, our efforts over the years, we helped farmers work to a particular objective. Because we referred to them as breeders, a term that they had never been associated with. With this , we began to register improvement in the quality of animal breeds because at that time farmers began feeding their calves with more milk making them grow faster and achieving better health instead of concentrating on selling all the milk because they are assured of good prices for healthy heifers, boergoats, piglets etc. They started investing in better health services for the animals, insemination of better breeds in cattle increased, handing and feeding of livestock improved and numerous families were further elevated from poverty. We had at this point set up holding grounds in bweyogerere, wakiso district and mukono where farmers would come at any time to see how the training we had given them could be put into practice and how better breeds of animals could be more productive than the rest of the livestock. In February 2007, after weighing our activities over the past years an organisation called SPHU was setup. We designed livestock packages that would suit various communities depending on necessity and adaptability of the animals to the conditions in those areas. The animals are to be bred in the country, then distributed to various villages, focusing on 8/10 families per subcounty. We also have plans of setting up a large breeding farm for cattle, boergoats and pigs. This is important so that the project can at a certain point be self reliant and be able to reach millions of families in the many years to come. Most importantly, we relied on this project design, so that we can be able to create a cycle and make sure that the project does not die with us, so that over the years of its running, new people can take over the project and spruce it up with more revitalised ideas. This way, the project will reach and help more people/families languishing in poverty. This project is expected to empower women and so proper planning is vital. We have achieved a lot between 2004 and now, even then, we are still setting up structures and seeking funding so that we can handle up to 38 districts in Uganda today. What is for sure is that SPHU, if given a chance, will change peoples perception towards livestock farming. We are working towards achieving a cycle of progress where farmers can afford good health care services, feed well and educate their children in good schools, all from the products of their livestock farm projects.