HOW A $1 DONATION HAS A $100 IMPACT IN A DEVELOPING COMMUNITY
High Return Charitable Giving
Chickens are inexpensive and easy to take care of, many breeds can survive by scavenging, and can be raised in a domestic setting. The eggs are rich in protein and nutrients that aid against malnutrition and keep children healthy and provide them the energy they need to keep active. Currently, there is a large shortfall in the supply of chickens and eggs in Zanzibar. Growing demand for chickens and eggs from restaurants, hotels, tourists and residents allows for produced eggs to be snapped up quickly.
One chick costs 2500 Tanzanian shillings ($1.15 USD), and grows to produce approximately 600 eggs during its lifetime at which point the value of the chickens meat is 10,000 Tanzanian shilling. ($4.60 USD.) The eggs sell for 350 shillings each, producing 220,000 shillings ($100.20 USD) of economic value through out their two year lives.
Chickens are inexpensive and easy to take care of, many breeds can survive by scavenging, and can be raised in a domestic setting. The eggs are rich in protein and nutrients that aid against malnutrition and keep children healthy and provide them the energy they need to keep active. Currently, there is a large shortfall in the supply of chickens and eggs in Zanzibar. Growing demand for chickens and eggs from restaurants, hotels, tourists and residents allows for produced eggs to be snapped up quickly.
One chick costs 2500 Tanzanian shillings ($1.15 USD), and grows to produce approximately 600 eggs during its lifetime at which point the value of the chickens meat is 10,000 Tanzanian shilling. ($4.60 USD.) The eggs sell for 350 shillings each, producing 220,000 shillings ($100.20 USD) of economic value through out their two year lives.
This value is distributed throughout the community. Children and families get access to nutritious food and protein. Corn, bean, lentil and grain farmers produce feed for the chickens. The excess eggs get supplied to markets, restaurants and hotels. Families use the profits to invest in their children's well being by purchasing other necessities including medicine when the child is sick and to provide education.
Daraja provides expertise, support and resources
Daraja provides start up funding, access to resources about poultry farming and volunteers for on-going support. Daraja is also working on helping the farmers improve the quality and value of their eggs. For example, feeding spinach to the chickens gives them eggs with a more yellow yolk and the eggs sell for slightly more. We're also working on setting up a black fly larvae harvesting program to improve the quality of the chicken feed. This will reduce their dependency on grain crops and the risk associated with low yields. It will also provide more nutrition for the chickens, making them more active and fertile, and reduce the costs of raising them.
Local students have paid work experience opportunities working on the chicken farm or with another Daraja community partner. They have opportunities in sales, bookkeeping, management, service and many other roles. With our student-led programs, we work hard to improve access to resources and empower students to be leaders in their communities.
How you can help?
Every chicken helps improve a family's Independence and affords them access to additional health and educational needs. Each chicken helps secure a families livelihood and their children's future. Your $1 charitable investment create $100 of economic value in Zanzibar, after accounting for the costs involved in raising the chickens that are distributed to the community, approximately $60 goes directly to the well being of the students and families that raised the chickens. Making a donation of a chicken is a donation toward providing a family a livelihood and giving them the power to be self-reliant and the ability to provide medicine and other necessities for their children. Establishing a families independence to determine their own future needs allows them to not be reliant on foreign aid and donations to survive.
We need your help to scale these programs. With your support we will be able to optimize processes, provide access to additional resources, increase efficiency and grow this project. Our goal is to test this model as a solution to poverty and replicate this project in other areas. We promise to keep you in the loop by providing regular updates in our newsletters and social media posts and through transparent reporting. We're a 100% volunteer run organization, that means every bit of your contribution goes directly toward the projects on the ground for the betterment of the communities that we're serving.
Help a community. Help sustainably. Help once, help forever.
Daraja provides expertise, support and resources
Daraja provides start up funding, access to resources about poultry farming and volunteers for on-going support. Daraja is also working on helping the farmers improve the quality and value of their eggs. For example, feeding spinach to the chickens gives them eggs with a more yellow yolk and the eggs sell for slightly more. We're also working on setting up a black fly larvae harvesting program to improve the quality of the chicken feed. This will reduce their dependency on grain crops and the risk associated with low yields. It will also provide more nutrition for the chickens, making them more active and fertile, and reduce the costs of raising them.
Local students have paid work experience opportunities working on the chicken farm or with another Daraja community partner. They have opportunities in sales, bookkeeping, management, service and many other roles. With our student-led programs, we work hard to improve access to resources and empower students to be leaders in their communities.
How you can help?
Every chicken helps improve a family's Independence and affords them access to additional health and educational needs. Each chicken helps secure a families livelihood and their children's future. Your $1 charitable investment create $100 of economic value in Zanzibar, after accounting for the costs involved in raising the chickens that are distributed to the community, approximately $60 goes directly to the well being of the students and families that raised the chickens. Making a donation of a chicken is a donation toward providing a family a livelihood and giving them the power to be self-reliant and the ability to provide medicine and other necessities for their children. Establishing a families independence to determine their own future needs allows them to not be reliant on foreign aid and donations to survive.
We need your help to scale these programs. With your support we will be able to optimize processes, provide access to additional resources, increase efficiency and grow this project. Our goal is to test this model as a solution to poverty and replicate this project in other areas. We promise to keep you in the loop by providing regular updates in our newsletters and social media posts and through transparent reporting. We're a 100% volunteer run organization, that means every bit of your contribution goes directly toward the projects on the ground for the betterment of the communities that we're serving.
Help a community. Help sustainably. Help once, help forever.