One of our original ways to create revenue in the communities was establishing chicken farms. We had scaled the production to process 4,500 chicken per month and then Covid hit. Abidjan, the capital of the Ivory Coast, shut down its borders and we were no longer able to export chickens into the city. Because of this, we raised eenough funds on GoFundMe to purchase the chicken and donate them to surrounding villages. It was an incredible feat and despite the challenges, we were still able to help a little.
It will take time to regrow the business to what it was. We had to start from scratch again with purchasing chickens, breeding, harvesting and proceessing them as well as resecuring our contracts to sell them.
Here is our team working with our chicken guys to “harvest” the chickens to be sold. The process is as follows: 1-slaughter, 2-boil, 3-defeather, 4-clean, and 5-refridgerate for transport.
Not very glamorous but this helps support the schools we build in the comunity and we are grateful for income producing ventures to sustain the projects we drive.
