A new way to change lives

We've set up a new and easy way for you to change lives. And you'll be supporting our work and helping us grow and scale our programme.

Fund a Family is an automated monthly donation which provides all the funds a family needs to grow and scale their franchised poultry-raising business.

One year of monthly donations at NZD$39.95 provides the support and capital a microfranchisee needs for materials & stock to set up, run and scale their business until they have enough savings capital to fully fund their own purchases.  As each microfranchisee builds up their savings capital to cover more of their stock, your donation gets recycled to help another microfranchisee.

A second year of monthly donations then helps another new microfranchisee to set up and run their business.

So after five years, you could have helped 8 different families start to work their own way out of ultra-poverty, for just $1.30 a day! To put that in perspective, that's around the same price as a couple of lattes a week, and you'll get the satisfaction of knowing you're giving opportunity to someone like Nong Saman (see below) who cannot run a normal business because of her HIV status. 

Seven new families urgently need funding now to join our programme.

Funding a family so they can work their own way out of poverty is easy, click here.

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Combined profits

We're not only helping individual franchisees, we're creating a whole new micro-economy in Chhouk that didn't exist before. Together, our part-time franchisees have so far achieved combined poultry sales of NZ$33,208.71 and a combined profit of NZ$4,948.19.

That's an amazing result for these villagers, many of whom have no formal education, face discrimination in their communities because of illness and disability, and earn as little as $0.50c a day normally.

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Franchisee profile - Nong Saman

Nong lives with her daughter's family. She'd normally make and sell noodles to eke out a small living but people in her community won't buy food off her because of her HIV status. As a franchisee she now gets the benefit of group sales and participating in the formal marketplace for the first time outside of her community. Nong's best profit is $54.12 for one chicken-raising cycle - that's over $1 a day for just 30 minutes work. She now has $84.00 in business savings. When asked about the programme's impact on her household, she explained that she's so pleased she's been able to spend some of her profit on better food and necessities.

To fund a villager like Nong click here.