Poultry farming for disabled youth
This photo was taken by NADEP's mobile phone with the following caption: "This Mobile Movement project will transform our lives,we nadep cant live it."
Action Grant: Support the Nairobi Disabled Empowerment Program (NADEP) youth group to overcome the stigma and isolation of disability and poverty, by helping them build an accessible chicken rearing facility for $900.
Business concept
This group faces great barriers in gaining employment due to their physical disabilities. For example, public transport operators routinely (and unfairly) refuse to pick them up. Their concept is to raise chickens in a specially designed enclosure, that will enable them to carry out most of the tasks without any outside help. There is an ample market for chickens in the local community and they can also eat or sell the eggs.
Background information
Working in the Riruta area of Nairobi, the Nairobi Disabled Empowerment Programme is a registered self-help group. The members, most of whom live with disabilities, work together to overcome the challenges of livelihood and sustenance which are realities for most of Nairobi's urban poor but particularly for those with disabilities.
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