POULTRY

Objectives:    

The objective of this outreach is to provide Vocational and Educational training to displaced Ugandan children through the establishment of a simple Farms with a Chicken and Egg Production Facility.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In Uganda, orphaned and internally displaced children in the northern refugee camps are suffering as they have been marginalized by recent events. Forty children at a time will be expatriated from the camps, enrolled in a partner NGO school for primary education and be entered into the work-study program. This combination of education and vocational skills will empower these children, and allow them to be reintegrated into the dynamics of society and their communities.

Activities

This work-study program within a supervised LHU Vocational Center will provide hands-on training in all aspects of commercial poultry production, including breeding, egg production, poultry rearing and distribution of product to market.

Potential Long Term Impact

Training these displaced children with vocational skills allows reintegration back into society as contributing participants, impacting positively on the economic, social, psychological, physical and vocational aspects of the beneficiaries' lives.