By Chandrani Banerjee | Head of Livelihood Programmes, West Bengal
Chhaya joined our poultry farming programme in April 2022 after her husband lost his bus driving job in Kolkata during the Covid pandemic. She started with three toolkits (30 chicks) and after four months was able to earn money by selling chicken meat at the roadside. With increase in the demand for meat, she started taking more toolkits and then set up a permanent stall at the roadside.
Gradually Chhaya diversified her small chicken shop into a grocery shop with some money from her profits in poultry farming. She also started selling chicken curry, rotis and rice to people passing by on the road. She and her husband are now busy running the shop selling various food and household items, as well as running their small café.
Sadly, while she spent most of her time in the shop, some of her chickens got stolen and so she decided to carry on with the shop business only as it's doing so well. She plans to start her poultry farming again in a few months’ time when she can spend more time at home and her husband and son can run the shop.
Chhaya and her family are now happily managing on the income generated through the shop enterprise. She is a perfect example of a woman in poverty who has been supported by Shivia through the poultry farming programme which acted as a stepping stone to establish a permanent income to lift her family out of poverty.
She says that she feels indebted to Shivia for providing such an excellent opportunity and values the training and handholding we have provided for her, helping her to uplift the whole family from the clutches of absolute poverty and at the mercy of debt when her husband lost his employment.
Thank you for helping us to help Chhaya and many more women like her.
With best wishes from,
Chandrani
Chandrani BanerjeeHead of Livelihood Programmes for Shivia (West Bengal)By Victoria Denison | UK Operations Manager
By Victoria Denison | UK Operations Manager
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