{"id":361,"date":"2015-03-27T04:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T04:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asdhostingservices.com\/awdf-2\/?p=361"},"modified":"2015-11-25T01:12:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T01:12:04","slug":"when-life-gives-you-lemonsbuild-a-chicken-coop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/when-life-gives-you-lemonsbuild-a-chicken-coop\/","title":{"rendered":"Grantee highlight: When Life Gives You Lemons\u2026Build a Chicken Coop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en\">In the Kasekenya Village of the Pallisa District of Uganda live an outstanding\u00a0group of women known as the Ababiti-bantu Women\u2019s Group. Many of these\u00a0women are living with HIV, disabilities, or have children with disability. In 2003,\u00a0they decided to come together to collectively improve their lives. When living with\u00a0an illness or disability, having a stable support group in one\u2019s community becomes\u00a0crucial for mental well being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">In 2012, the women discovered a Ugandan organisation called the Gender\u00a0Integrated Development Program (GIDP). The mission of GIDP is to \u201cprovide\u00a0capacity building services to enable marginalized groups to articulate their mutual\u00a0concerns and demands, and promote their productivity sustainably for better and\u00a0equitable livelihoods and self-help.\u201d There is also a focus on aiding people living with\u00a0HIV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The Ababiti-bantu women approached GIDP for support in earning a\u00a0livelihood and both groups decided that poultry keeping would work best for them\u00a0due to its simplicity and their prior experiences with free-range poultry. After this\u00a0assessment, GIDP enlisted the financial support of the African Women\u2019s\u00a0Development Fund based on these needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">AWDF agreed to fund this project and GIDP received the necessary grant.\u00a0Amina Nabusigo, the group\u2019s treasurer, readily donated land on which a coop could\u00a0be built. After its construction, twenty-three of the thirty-two members were\u00a0trained in poultry rearing at a two-day training workshop. Then, the women were\u00a0given 300 chicks, feed and medication for the animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The group divided into three teams that take turns in managing the poultry\u00a0farm. They even created a seven-person management committee that oversees the\u00a0entire project. . The farms were set up in September 2012 and the chicks started\u00a0laying eggs in March 2013. As a result, the women have acquired poultry rearing and\u00a0business management skills, which they use in managing the projects and are\u00a0applying to their individual endeavors as well. Many of the women have even\u00a0started breeding chicks in their homes applying the knowledge and skills gained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The poultry project has given the women confidence, visibility and respect in\u00a0their communities. Hotels in the outlying areas buy their eggs on a cash basis\u00a0through negotiations entirely initiated by the women without the help of GIDP. They\u00a0are effectively managing their sales and have adopted good saving habits because\u00a0egg are\u00a0always banked immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">A good perk is that every two weeks the group members get eggs to<br \/>\nsupplement their own diets. The project is slowly building up\u00a0capital, but not so\u00a0much that sharing of profits has begun. The women appreciate the eggs they get and\u00a0look forward to building the capital to the level that profit sharing can start. Since\u00a0March 2013 the group has collected and sold 86 crates of eggs at 8,600 Ugandan\u00a0shillings ($3.5) a crate..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">This poultry project has really worked wonders in creating a more unified\u00a0group of women who feel empowered by their ability to run a successful business.\u00a0Some of the group members\u2019 husbands are so happy with the results of the venture\u00a0that they sometimes help out at the poultry house!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">AWDF is so proud to have been able to be a part of this story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/take-action\/#make_a_donation\">Join us in supporting work like this by making a contribution to AWDF today!\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment-and-livelihoods","category-grantees","category-hivaids"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grantee highlight: When Life Gives You Lemons\u2026Build a Chicken Coop! 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