We aim to improve nutrition and enable women to earn by selling eggs. They don't have any money but chickens are usually a woman's business and they get the money from eggs.
We had to follow their priority of giving first to poor, widows and disabled.Not all of these are the people we are aiming to help most, but they have all agreed to provide ten chickens each next year for other villagers and those will be mothers with young children.
After we trained the women in Poultry Production, helped them to build chicken's houses and gave feeders and drinkers, we distributed the chickes.The Balkh Agriculture Department helped us technically. The following pictures shows when we were distributing Chickens for poors, handicaped and widows.
This picture shows the chickens distribution, from the right the chicken seller, Sayed Arif the animal specialist from Balkh Agriculture, Irrigation and Animal Husbandry department and Zahra the a woman from Shangir village.
This picture shows a village man on the left with me on the right, receiving the chickens. His name is Adina, he is 48 years old. Adina said "I didn't think that the delivery was so dangerous for my wife, because she has had several deliveries, all at home but she died of severe bleeding after delivery in 30 minutes that we couldn't have time to find a vehicle or donkey to take her to the clinic. The baby also died after two months because there was no one to take care of him". He also said that he had no land of his own and he was working on others land to feed their children but this year he hasn't been able to harvest enough to feed his children.
The following three pictures shows when we were distributing improved food for chickens
We provided each chicken with the improved food for two month, it is the time then the chickens can eat the food found locally.
Great you distributed the chickens Hussain Ali! Please tell us, how are the women getting on with the chickens? What do they think?
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