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03/24/2005

Press Release

Chicken Rearing Project Helping Grenadian Families

Several Grenadian families are getting an opportunity to generate income through a Chicken Rearing Program being funded by the US Government through the US Agency for International Development. (USAID)

USAID, through the Grenada Business and Agriculture Revitalization Project (GBAR is working with the Grenada Community Development Agency (GRENCODA) to train more than 100 Grenadians from at least eight rural communities to rear chickens as part of a food security initiative and to generate income.

The program is just one of the many training initiatives USAID is implementing in association with the Government of Grenada, as well as with community-based and non-governmental organizations in Grenada as part of its economic revitalization program in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan.

Under the program, technical assistance from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Caribbean Agro Industries will facilitate training in animal care and feeding as well as, building materials for chicken pens.

In a true spirit of cooperation between Grenadian and regional Non-Governmental Organizations, training in pen construction and the building of the pens was done at the New Life Organization (NEWLO) by trainees in NEWLO's and the Grenada Organization of Women's (GNOW) construction training program. The regional umbrella non-governmental organization body, the Caribbean Policy Development Centre, is also providing chickens for the program.

GRENCODA's President Judy Williams said she was very happy with this level of cooperation since it meant that agencies were not over-lapping but were collaborating to do a more effective job of reaching out to the persons who needed help the most.

USAID's representative for the Grenada Reconstruction Program, Stephen Haynes, was recently on hands to hand over the chicken pens to Williams and other GRENCODA officials.

In photo is Stephen Haynes, USAID's Chief of Party for the Grenada Reconstruction Program as he handed over the chicken pens to Judy Williams, President of GRENCODA.