This campaign uplifts rural poor communities especially women and youth living in extreme poverty by breeding rabbits. Kigezi Healthcare Foundation(KIHEFO) has been supporting families by giving five females and one male rabbit.Rabbits multiply fast and only eat vegetation. One female rabbit produces an average of 60 in a year and up to 20 female rabbits can be retained for breeding. This gives the family up to 1,600 if they eat 400 they can sell 1,200 at $3 and earn $3,600 per year or $10 daily
Kigezi region is highly populated with massive land fragmentation leading to low agricultural yield and widespread malnutrition among under five years children.According to the 2016 Uganda Demographic health survey 25 percent of the households are in the lowest quintile. World bank definition of poverty is being less than $2 per day this means most of the 25%households are living below poverty.
Local communities have learnt to make local rabbit cages using local materials and our project will provide them with five rabbits,one male and five females. Communities have adopted this project over the last 10 years. We are not introducing a new project but rather scaling up an existing project to reach out to more poor households. Many families are surviving through the COVID19 pandemic by earning income through rabbit rearing. All family members including children can to care of rabbits.
Many people in the communities and urban areas are now interested in consuming rabbit meat because it has low fat and it is white meat which is more healthy than red meat. A number of companies have expressed interest in buying rabbits from the local communities and this will give them a steady income. Some companies are interested in processing rabbit meat for local market and export and they need many more rabbits from the local communities. This is an opportunity for the poor to get income.
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