Let’s create jobs for women by starting a new chicken business in Remolino!
In all five of our previous chicken business startups, we’ve seen the huge impact job opportunities make on families' lives. Increased family income leads to healthier families, more emphasis on education, and marriage equality. By starting a chicken business in Remolino, five women will have the opportunity to co-own this small business. This will help these women build, in just one year, what is normally impossible for most Honduran women to build in an entire lifetime.
THE IMPACT
Through this business, five entire families will experience not only economic transformation, but be able to move from survival to sustainability. Many women do not have the opportunity to work in this community, and those who do earn about $3/day. These women will have the opportunity to earn five to six times more during their first three years in the business. Better yet, they will have the opportunity to be near their children all day while productively working in their own community.
THE PLAN
We will build this coop in the community of Remolino to hold a capacity of 2,000 chickens. Five women will have the opportunity to co-own this coop. Every 30 days, the chickens are sold, and the women receive their income.
Proven Success
This will be the sixth chicken business we’ve started in the rural communities of Honduras that we partner with. We have grown 5 businesses to become profitable and handed off complete ownership to the women who work at the coops. This year, we have seen their most profitable chicken cycle ever, where three women each brought home $500 to their families for one month of work.
The five entrepreneurs
Meet the Five Entrepreneurs here who will co-own the chicken business!
Elsy Bueso
Elsy works as the community healthcare worker with H&H. She will work short-term at the chicken business to train these 4 women, since she has a lot of prior experience with chickens. Elsy is an amazing leader, so we’re excited to see her train these women to co-own this small business!
Silvia Bonilla, 30
Silvia is a single mother of two disabled children. She has had an extremely difficult life and struggles to provide for her two children and herself. She moved to Remolino about three years ago, when she heard of H&H’s partnership with the community, in hopes of building a better life for her children.
Telma Isaguirre Maldonaldo, 46
Telma and her husband have two children. She currently works in the agriculture business, helping harvest corn and pineapple. For Telma, this opportunity would give her the ability to buy necessities for her children and medicine. She also hopes to get a loan for a new house with H&H.
Siris Orellana Zela, 42
Siris is a single mother of 4 children, and currently does not have a job. She shared with us that she struggles to provide her children basic necessities. Siris really hopes to work in the chicken business to provide for her 4 children, and to help them move forward in life.
Leidy Orellano Rodriguez, 36
Leidy and her husband Vicente have one child, and she currently works in agriculture but only seasonally. Leidy needs a new job opportunity so she can supplement her husband’s income to better provide for her son and her elderly parents who also live in the community of Remolino.
Please help us empower the entrepreneurs we serve to become catalysts of generational change through this life-changing opportunity. With a small investment of $35, you can help us reach our goal of $35,000 to start this chicken business in the community of Remolino. Donate here.