The Fish Farm Project
Increasing Food Security,
Our Solution the Fish Farm Project increases food security and empowers women to become automatically, economically independent to be able to increase their household income by 60%, through simple trainings in fish farming. We select a group of mostly 20-100 rural poor uneducated women in our targeted communities in Eastern region of Nigeria. We equipped these women with sustainable skills and knowledge in fish farming, fish feed making as added value, business and entrepreneurship skills needed to run the fish farm as a business and at the same time establishes with them a 500-4000 capacity fish farm which they own as a joint Venture.
This empowerment project earns the iF SOCIAL IMPACT PRIZE because it helps uneducated women in the Eastern region of Nigeria to discover their own strength. Through simple trainings in fish farming, they become economically independent and are able to top up their household income. Even establishing an own business is possible thanks to the Learning by Doing training. The impact is so good, it even increases food security and prevents rural poverty for children and women.
WINNER STATEMENTIt is an extraordinary "wow" encouragement to our team, and to the rural poor women in the southeast region of Nigeria. The prize money will be used to train rural poor women in Omuma Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State, and establish with them a community fish farm as a cooperative business. Thank you so much.
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