Mothers Yes We Can: How Your Investment in 500 Chicks Funded Education in Nabikabala
Because of you, ten single mothers successfully sold their first batch of chickens, distributed profits, and expanded their poultry farm.
Imagine taking care of 400 chickens 24 hours a day for 6 weeks.
That is exactly what a small, diverse group of ten single mothers from Nabikabala have done, launching their own cooperative chicken farm and running it with extraordinary success.
As 2022 graduates of Global Village Connect’s community development program, these women were eager to establish a collaborative community business that would generate enough sustainable income to feed and educate their children. Together, they formed a savings and investment collective, with members contributing weekly sums based on their capacity, some contributing as little as $1 a week.
Plucking opportunities from capital
In 2023, seeing their incredible commitment, Global Village Connect awarded the group a $10,000 start up grant to construct a modern poultry facility. Construction of their brick chicken house was completed in June of this year, and the women immediately got busy.
Having successfully raised and sold their very first batch of 400 chickens in October, the collective achieved instant profitability. The women distributed $10 to each household to cover immediate living and household expenses, and strategically reinvested all remaining profits to increase their inventory to 500 chicks for the next cycle.
Realizing dreams through shared profits
The profits generated from this collective business are already transforming lives and restoring hope across the community:
“With this month’s share of profits, I will be able to buy medicines for my grandson with sickle cell anemia. I can be sure that he will not be in pain.”
— Rose, Mothers Yes We Can Member “I will use my share of the profits to complete my daughter’s school fees since the term is almost ending.”
— Monica, Mothers Yes We Can Member Other members are thinking even bigger, using their weekly payouts to seed independent micro enterprises:
“I am going to keep saving money because I have a plan of starting my business of selling sand, since there is no one doing that business in our village.”
— Sarah, Mothers Yes We Can Member
Looking to the future
If all goes according to their business plan, the women expect first year profits to top $3,600. In the following year, they plan to expand their flock inventory to reach the building’s full physical capacity.
Each GVC chicken farm provides a stable livelihood for about 100 people (ten mothers with an average of ten children each). Before the end of this year, help us raise $60,000 to fund thirty new boarding school scholarships and launch three new chicken farm cooperatives just like the one in Nabikabala!
