Astere Ndayirata CJCU/IPSD Graduate NEZERWA Poultry Farm Report After completing a four day New Entrepreneurship program workshop organized by CJCU Yunus Social Business center in collaboration with The International Program for Sustainable Development and got a financial support from same Yunus social business Center and started the chicken project in my village while teaming up with some local people. The project has a lot to bring to the local people and myself too. Low production of chicken meat and eggs, poverty, joblessness are some of the problems that are manifested in MUKUNGU my home village. Chicken meat is one of the most expensive food on the entire land and consequently, chicken meat is a precious food not to be eaten by everyone or ordinary people. So many people try to breed few hens in their homes but they end up getting discouraged by hens’’ diseases, luck of skills, luck of enough resources to easily run the chicken business etc. NEZERWA poultry farm is a chicken business that comes to solve some of the above mentioned problems. It is a business that comes as one of the ways to promote some of 17 goals for sustainable development such as goals: no hunger, no poverty, decent work and economic growth et, and most important it is a first chicken in the entire district. So the positive impact will be much more remarkable in coming few months.
The project itself Early in July as a landed in Burundi from Taiwan, the project got started immediately. The project activities with first of all meeting the local people to let them know all about the project, the reason why we need to come together all for one project. The discussion did not take much time because everyone knew about the project even before my arrival in the country. It was also very import to start with the understanding of all about chicken food, health and chicken’s life in general. It is from this reason why before any activity to get started we invited a vet to give a lecture about chicken farm. The vet focused so much on diseases which many and various and the biggest problem for every chicken farm to succeed, however, he mentioned that diseases can be treat easily once the business runners is keen to care enough of the farm. That is why the vet thinks that it is very crucial for whoever is running a chicken farm business to know the condition of every chicken in farm on daily basis, so the behavior of will determine what kind of disease and effective treatment of the disease.