Building chicken coups

Thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors who made this possible!

 I was so happy when 8 of the women in our first group chose to raise chickens. Chicken eggs are a great source of income and nutrition for the women and their families. Most of the women already had a place for the chickens to stay but there were three families that needed us to come in an build chicken coups. My family was visiting for the month of October but instead of holding off on the building they wanted to help out! I was very lucky to have so much help because building a chicken coup, a good chicken coup, is a lot of work. 

We not only built the families chicken coups but delivered food, supplies and gifts for the children. This is happy with her new baby doll. 

We had 12 people in the Land Rover up the mountain to Ndombo. It was an exciting ride!

 My husband, father and father in law building the first chicken coup in Ndombo. We will only deliver 5 chickens to the family but we made the coup big enough for 20. We are hoping they will be able to fill it very soon!

Building Mama Mary and her six daughters chicken coup. Mama Mary is a very hard working women and spends most of her days running back and forth from the river carrying 50 lbs of water on her head for her neighbors. After a full days work of this she will make only $1. With her new business of selling eggs and chickens she can be making 5-6 times that much in the next couple of months.

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again"
- Mahatma Gandhi

The builders all wearing their Walk IN Love t-shirts with Mama Mary and her completed chicken coup.

Building Esta and her six children's new chicken coup.

We bought 50 chickens at the market. We were not sure how to get them all home but the men at the market just tied them all to the roof of the truck! We were a little worried but they all made it back to our home alive, a little thirsty, but alive. We will keep them at our house for one week to make sure they all get vaccinations and are treated for a respiratory disease that several are already showing symptoms of. We want to make sure they are nice and healthy when they are delivered to their new homes! We are also taking 50lbs of the best chicken feed to each of the women.

My father and father in law building the temporary chicken coup in our back yard.

         

This is only the first step in assisting the women in starting a new chicken/ egg business. We will deliver the chickens and feed next week. We will also be visiting in one month to deliver more feed and if we have the funds we would like to deliver at least one more chicken to every women. We will also provide the proper vaccinations for the chickens for the first year. 

For $150 you can sponsor a women to start her own chicken/egg business.

Thank you for your support!