Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) is the poorest province in Indonesia. Government estimates indicate 80% of the population has an income of less than $2 a day per household. Additionally  84% of the population live in rural areas where infrastructure, transport and utilities are very limited. Almost 60% of the population have only a basic education and 17% are illiterate.

Lais Manekat) an organisation of the Evangelical Protestant Church of Timor.  The project aims to assist the rural poor in West Timor by providing them with a source of income generation through raising cattle.
Clients are given a cow by the project to fatten for six months. They are trained in cattle care and provided with vitamin supplements and immunizations for the cattle.  These cows are then sold.  Following the sale, the cost of the cow is repaid and the profit is split between the clients, the local church and TLM.  The client’s share is divided into money for personal use and savings which are used to help purchase another cow. Eventually clients are able to purchase their cows without assistance from TLM.

To download a project information sheet please click here.