Project Summary

Currently the area is experiencing the second year of a devastating drought. Most food is locally grown with subsistence agriculture, beef and mutton the primary sources of caloric intake. With the crops failing many families are traveling to the major economic hubs, a days journey to the closest, and spending their money on foods imported from South Africa. Since family resources are few, this is causing a hardship on the families of the village and the students of this school.

The Assistant Headmaster of the school, Ntate Kotiti Diholo wrote a proposal asking for capital so the school could build, maintain, and monitor a poultry project on school grounds. This project would build three chicken houses, and stock them with chicks such that a rotation of the chickens would allow a continuous supply of protein (eggs, meat), and income.

Once the students are taken care of, the extra eggs, meat and chicks would be sold to the local community at a much lower price than the South African products. The money raised would re-supply the chicken houses for the next yearly rotation. The students would monitor the animals, balance the books, administer the feed and care, learn some valuable business skills, and experience self-sufficiency.