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INCOME GENERATING SCHEMES

Luyando have been looking into ways of becoming self sufficient.

In the last few months Luyando have started buying bananas from Cool Bananas Farm and selling them in Ndola and to the local mines.

Luyando have also set up a shop, a sales person has been employed, and a monitoring system put in place. We have a good stock of various items including groceries, mealie meal, fertilisers, paraffin and other village essentials. A well stocked shop should attract a lot of people from the surrounding area and farm.

These small businesses will bring some income into Luyando.

Luyando has just bought a hammmer mill for the women of the village. The nearest hammermill is a 4km walk away and grinding the maize with a pestle and mortar is exhausting work. A hammer mill will free up the women to pursue other income generating activies as well as provide an income for the women who run the hammer mill. The women have started to make the bricks for the mill house.

In the next few months we hope to start a chicken project and a saw mill.

All these activities will enable the community to become self sufficient in the long term.

09.05.2008. 05:42

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