Kenya

A Demonstration Farm Introduces a New Brand of Chickens

This [project] has been a transformational venture for us.
— The Rev. Evalyn Wakhusama, project leader
 
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ANTICIPATED LIVES IMPACTED: 430 and counting including students at the school and community members adopting the new farming practices.

GRANT AMOUNT $69,000 half of which was a loan to be repaid to a fund designated to fund additional development projects in Kenya. This loan will be fully paid off by the middle of 2021.

HOW YOU CONTRIBUTED!

For $230 you purchased 100 day-old chicks.

For $1,150 you provided 500 day-old chicks.

For $1,500 you paid for eggs for hatching.

GLOBAL TRUSTEES APPROVED NOVEMBER 2016; COMPLETED FALL 2018

Help Spread the Word!

The Nambale Magnet School in Busia, Kenya, serves orphans and other vulnerable children. With its demonstration farm, the school is also able to teach effective farming techniques. This addresses a real issue as farmers in the region need access to new farming technology. Most poultry producers operate small-scale operations, raising indigenous breeds using inefficient methods. 

The school has scaled up its poultry production, introducing a new breed of chicken not raised in competing markets. Initially they were purchasing day old chicks to raise in the newly built chicken houses. However, it was not long before they were able to raise these chicks themselves.

This breed, along with better education, will allow local farmers to be competitive in the market and thus economically secure. While larger poultry producers away from Nambale have strong distribution networks, they do not raise the new breed of chicken used with this project. This has been a boon to the farmers in Nambale. 

Funds were spend on the construction of chicken houses, a solar incubator, automatic feeder, kuroiler chicks and eggs, chicken feed, vaccines, medications and protective clothing. Funds were also be used to train the parents and guardians of children currently enrolled at the school and the community in best practices of poultry farming, business and marketing skills. Half of the project grant ($30,000) is being paid back to ARDF-Kenya as an interest free loan within four years, now that the school receives income from their poultry. 

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