Raising chickens
Francis sends the following message regarding the use of £50 sent to him just before Christmas:
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After discussing with the committee we agreed that we should buy chickens therefore we bought 123 chicks which amounted to MK7380, and we bought feeds which cost us MK1550, we also vaccinated the chicks at MK500 and we paid the tranporter MK1070 which means we still owe the transporter Mk430. If you can calculate you can see that the money is adding up to MK10500 because this is what I received at the bank.
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These chicks will mature to eat or sell in 6 weeks. The buiness plan developed by the village committee and agricultural advisor was to build up to have 250 chickens maturing every 3 weeks. The aim is for this to become a self-sustaining business, providing fresh chickens to surrounding communities and for villagers themselves.
A couple of weeks before this I was able to send £100 thanks to a friend. This money was used for food to meet immediate needs. But the price of maize is rising. Francis wrote on 9 December:
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As I am writing this email the bag of maize is now K2200 and when we include transport it is becoming up to K2350/bag. From the money which you send it was K20,100 and bought 7 bags of maize K16,450.00. The money which was left I used to buy groundnuts seeds which I gave to 50 families.
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Maize is going as a priority to orphans and their carers, generally grandparents.
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After discussing with the committee we agreed that we should buy chickens therefore we bought 123 chicks which amounted to MK7380, and we bought feeds which cost us MK1550, we also vaccinated the chicks at MK500 and we paid the tranporter MK1070 which means we still owe the transporter Mk430. If you can calculate you can see that the money is adding up to MK10500 because this is what I received at the bank.
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These chicks will mature to eat or sell in 6 weeks. The buiness plan developed by the village committee and agricultural advisor was to build up to have 250 chickens maturing every 3 weeks. The aim is for this to become a self-sustaining business, providing fresh chickens to surrounding communities and for villagers themselves.
A couple of weeks before this I was able to send £100 thanks to a friend. This money was used for food to meet immediate needs. But the price of maize is rising. Francis wrote on 9 December:
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As I am writing this email the bag of maize is now K2200 and when we include transport it is becoming up to K2350/bag. From the money which you send it was K20,100 and bought 7 bags of maize K16,450.00. The money which was left I used to buy groundnuts seeds which I gave to 50 families.
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Maize is going as a priority to orphans and their carers, generally grandparents.
posted by Mike Brady at 7:25 AM
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