The Pigs and the Pots

On Monday we went to San Antonio. No, not Texas! Our trainers wanted us to visit the village where the other half of our Business and Organizational Development Group (Bus Org, for short) is living. It is a completely different experience than we are having in Belmopan, and what a great day we had! The city has been trying to get water for almost 10 years and last weekend, in honor of Mother's Day, the women of San Antonio (and everyone else!) got running water! It was a huge event: school was closed and everyone in town was there for the ceremony and ribbon cutting, all dressed in their finest (despite the fact that it was over 100 degrees under the tent.) The leader of the Village Council had every mother come up and presented each one (including me) with a red rose. He knew every woman's name and announced it on the microphone as she received her flower. All the Council members gave speeches and the Prime Minister even came to give a speech, along with many dignataries from the government, the Mexican Ambassador and the representative from Tiawan, who helped fund the project.
But even more fun and amazing to me was seeing the Project that the Village Women's Group is doing. They are making pottery, but the process is genious! They purchased pigs - pigs to make pottery, you say? Well, the pigs had babies and now they have lots of pigs. All those pigs poop and they put the poop in a huge plastic bag mixed with water. The poop produces methane gas and they fire up the kilns with the methane! So with the money they made from the pottery, they bought some chickens. They fed the chickens 24 hours a day, which produced a lot of chicken poop, not to mention the fact that by being fed all the time, the chickens are ready to sell in 6 weeks. So they planted a garden above ground in boxes to keep the animals out of their vegetables, using shaff from the rice they hull and the chicken poop for soil. Oh, did I mention they use the water from the methane container to water the garden - the perfect natural fertilizer! The whole set-up is totally self sufficient - and as an added bonus to the pottery they sell, they also sell pigs, chickens and vegetables! So my question is, why are we here bringing development to third world countries?
Maybe it's so they can show us how it's done!