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 Poverty factors explain many negative impacts
on the psychosocial wellbeing of the affected children. Hence, a livelihood
intervention consisting of cooperative poultry rearing and sunflower growing
has been introduced as a basic intervention.
The research participants, that is the children and youth, are not directly targeted, but rather their adult household heads, guardians, caregivers. The involved households formed 14 livelihood groups in the participating 4 communities in which they work together to develop the projects. A group integrates about 25 households. Each livelihood is keeping disease-resistant local village chickens, which can be sold on local markets. Sunflower seeds are used to extract cooking oil. Products like meat and eggs and cooking oil can also be used directly as nutritional supplements for the participating households. It is a closed production cycle where chicken droppings are used as fertilizers and sunflower “cake” (the leavings from the sunflower oil extraction) is used to feed the chickens. Recently, also goats have been handed out to households.Revenues from the projects are saved in a “livelihood group bank” (a cash box with three locks whose keys are controlled by three different people). From the savings most vulnerable dependants of the livelihood group households are supported. Also, group members can receive micro credits with a small interest rate from the revenues in order to start new projects. Part of the savings are reserved for necessary reinvestments into the activities (purchase of feedings, vaccinations etc). The livelihood intervention provides a baseline to which all other interventions are compared. |