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Bill Gates explains why chickens are the ultimate solution to poverty

The richest man in the world is setting his sights on poultry as an antidote to poverty.

On Wednesday June 8, standing in front of a makeshift chicken coop on the 68th floor of a New York skyscraper, Bill Gates announced his foundation's partnership with Heifer International, a charity focused on donating livestock to poor families around the world.

Together, the two organizations will deliver chickens to countries in need as a way to lift their citizens out of poverty. Gates says his initial donation will be 100,000 chickens.

The announcement coincides with the philanthropist's latest post on his Gates Notes blog, which outlines the supreme benefits a flock can offer impoverished families.

"These chickens are multiplying on an ongoing basis, so there's no investment that has a return percentage anything like being able to breed chickens," Gates says.

Families that keep chickens can use the birds for their meat (either to consume or sell), and live chickens can serve as a currency to pay for things like school fees or repairs. In addition, they are cheap, easy to care for, and can empower women to take active entrepreneurial roles in their community.

"The chickens are almost entirely a women's activity, because it involves being around the household all day long," Gates says.

Through research and trips to West Africa, Gates has found that after a period of three months, a typical owner of eight to 10 chickens can yield a flock of 40 chicks. With a sale price of $5 per chicken, which Gates notes is typical in West Africa, an owner can earn over $1,000 a year. The extreme-poverty line, meanwhile, hovers around $700 a year.

Donald Nkrumah, senior program officer of agriculture development at the Gates Foundation, says chickens are a good way to supplement seasonal sources of income, such as crops.

In East Africa, for example, many farmers use the income generated from their chickens to purchase a cow, which offers more in the way of milk and meat. According to Nkrumah, livestock makes up between 30 and 40% of the income in a household.

The fact families can consume eggs or milk all year-round adds to their sense of self-sufficiency.

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Pierre Ferrari, the CEO of Heifer International, says Gates and Heifer have selected roughly a dozen countries where they think donated chickens will do the most good. Many are located in rural areas in Africa, Central America, and Asia, though he couldn't name any specifically.
A big hurdle in choosing locations for the new coops, Ferrari says, is ensuring that local farmers are properly trained to handle a small flock of eight or nine chickens. "There's no point in placing a chickens in a place where they're going to die," he explained.

Nkrumah says the bulk of the farmers' training will come from local government organizations that cooperate with Heifer International and the Gates Foundation.

Over time, Gates says he hopes the partnership will help people lift themselves out of poverty. He calls it a "bootstrap" solution.

"It's the classic thing of teaching someone how to fish," Gates says. "Now, if you don't live near water, then it's pretty hard to fish. But the parable could've been stated in terms of giving somebody a chicken."

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Ary wah tameem bhai ... aap kb kr rhy ho ?

Chalo awam mn bhi chor samny any shuru hogay ... chori ki zameen sy roko gy tu galiyaan dn gy ...

I am litterally enjoying ... all the land grabbers are facing the heat ... good that honest people will now get level playing field in business ... if this will continue at the current pace InshAllah tamam choron k asy hi kapry utrn gy ...


Wasy tu aap ko sharam sy doob k mar jana cbahy k wo chekh rha ha k mjhy kabzy ki zameen pr sy q hataya but patwari tu patwari hai ... usy kya pata halal haram ka farq ...

Asma sehrazi pool is correct
A neutral channel Aaj news behind it.

You mean to say this is indepent


Hillarious ... by the way dawn is fierce enemy of IK ... independent polls would hVe been even more tilted towards IK ...
 
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100 Days of PTI Government

Dollar 19 rupees up in 3 months

Inflation double the figure in 4 months(8%)

Interest rate highest in 4 years

6 billion dollars drop in foreign reserves in 3 months

Export dropped by 21%

Development budget cut 35% in 3 months

Stock exchange free fall from 54000 to 40000

Trade deficit increasing every month

Electricity rate increased

Fuel prices increased

Gas prices increased

Water charges increase

Tax collection dropped
 
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عوام پوچھتی ھے مسائل کون حل کرے گا
ھم بولتے ھیں بھول جاؤ ان سپنو کو۔

سیاسی وعدہ اک لولی پاپ ھے جو ھر دفعہ عوام کو دیا جاتا ھے

بھلا سیاست مے یہ سیاسی لوگ خدمت کے لیے کیوں آئیں گئے ان کا دماغ خراب ھے
اک گالی اک بندے کو دے کے دیکھو کیسے لڑتا ھے تم سے۔ ان کو ھزار دو یہ کچھ نہیں کرتے وجہ یہ ھے کے سب سیاست دان اپنا مال ڈبل کرنے مے لگے ھوئے ھیں

آج کل کے زمانے مے کوئی آپ کے ساتھ محلے کی نالی صاف نہیں کرواتا یہ آپ کے لیے کیوں ٹائم ضائع کریں
ان کے مقاصد صرف مال و دولت ھے اور جو فنڈ ھوتے ھیں وہ عوام کا ٹیکس ھے کہیں نہ کہیں تو لگانا ھوتا ھے نا۔

اب جو سمجھ جائے وہ سمجھدار اور جو نہ سمجھے وہ
گرم انڈے [emoji23]
 
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100 Days of PTI Government

Dollar 19 rupees up in 3 months

Inflation double the figure in 4 months(8%)

Interest rate highest in 4 years

6 billion dollars drop in foreign reserves in 3 months

Export dropped by 21%

Development budget cut 35% in 3 months

Stock exchange free fall from 54000 to 40000

Trade deficit increasing every month

Electricity rate increased

Fuel prices increased

Gas prices increased

Water charges increase

Tax collection dropped

Except for first three points rest are all big fkat lie without the basis ... by the way you should have listen the budget speech of your last finance minister mr. Mifath ismail as he criticized alot to ishaq dar for artifically keeping the dollar price high at the cost of sbp reserves which started falling at start of 2018 and in his speech he said that if our balance of payment do not get stabilize than rupee should be allowed to depriciate further ... thats not my words but words of your finance minister miftah ismail ...

Secondly everyonw knew that once dollar is high inflation will pick up ... this is again due to dollar ...

Third point regarding interest rate ....ask any economist ... if your currency is devakuing the natural option in any theory of economics is to increase interest rates ... so all of the problem are arising out of increased dollar ...

Why dollar is increasing ... coz first time in the history our export decline consistently with phenominal increase in imports ... so with 20 billion export and 54 billion import ... tu aap ka dollar tu decline hona tha which was artifically kept stable by previous criminally negligent government who is interested to keep the figures look better at the cost of actual losses of export ...
 
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