Chicken Project is self-sustaining!

Several years ago, Ezra Uganda Assistance funded a chicken business run by families with disabled children. In rural eastern Uganda, there are a lot of animals wandering around, goats, village oxen and chickens. Lots of chickens.

Dozens of Abayudaya families have children with special needs. There are few resources available to help, and even less money to access the resources that do exist. The families joined together and decided that running a chicken business would help them meet their special needs.

Ezra Uganda Assistance provided the $18,000 start-up funding to buy, house and feed the chickens. The families built all the facilities themselves, care for the chickens and sell them to the greater public throughout Namutumba. The number of families involved and the size of the flock have both grown. THE PROJECT IS NOW SELF-SUSTAINING!