By Austin Bowden-Kerby | Project Facilitator
Seven women came to the farm from the cyclone affected area of southern Taveuni island for Happy Chicken traing and they returned home last week after twelve days, with lots of new knowldege as well as with the chickens to start up their own breeding flocks and local egg cooperative business.
In addition to the poultry training, the women also received training in sustainable livelihoods, such as virgin coconut oil production, coconut cheeze and vinegar production, and permaculture.
Taveuni and all the cyclone hit areas of Fiji are recovering well now, and so this project will soon be merged with the main Happy Chicken project. Much more is being done as the need for sustainabe, locally based production is great, providing much needed protein to chldren and rural families. We have already produced over seven tousand chcks since May, for a total of about 30 thousand produced in five years. The impact is much greater when we realize that many of these chickens are now breeding and procucing chicks ftheir own. We also have sent out four 90-egg incubators around Fiji and three to Vanuatu.
Thanks so much for your continued assistance and helping make this work possible,
Austin
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