Nomita Mridha from KOINONIA .mp4

Along with partners Koinonia and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, World Relief Canada is in Nomita's community and others like it, offering supplies and training to help people like Nomita harness the very best opportunities that are available to them. Nomita, in fact, has become an expert in raising poultry. Her family has a bamboo chicken shed with slats for the floor on stilts above their fishpond. This common Bangladeshi practice allows for the chicken manure to stimulate growth in the fish pond, and any waste feed falls to the fish.

But how could the potential for this traditional practice be unleashed to better serve Nomita, her family and her entire community?

That's where World Relief Canada stepped in and offered training and supplies to help transform Nomita's hard work into a sustainable and growing business. In her training, Nomita says that she learned "everything one needs to know for modern chicken raising, namely feeding, housing, health and vaccinations." Nomita purchases young chickens, and armed with her new insights into the world ofpoultry and business, raises them to the point where she can help meet the strong demand inBangladesh for broiler chickens. Last year, Nomita sold over 3,500 broiler chickens. She is a farmer,a buyer and a seller. She and her family have a future.

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