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The CWS Giving Machines Program January - June 2020
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
In late 2019 CWS participated in the Giving Machines initiative from Latter-day Saints Charities.
A total of $1.8 million was raised for CWS Programs through this initiative. The funds are aimed at
the purchase and delivery of chickens, sheep, piglets, life-saving nutrition and sweet potatoes in
a selection of countries.
As a new initiative within CWS, this presented an ideal fit into CWS livelihoods, food security and
child protection programs. Since January 2020, CWS has created specific program design,
operations, implementation and reporting systems for the management of this initiative. CWS
used a whole-agency approach towards this program. With finance, funds development,
communications as well as global, regional and country program leadership, we developed a full
implementation, reporting and communication strategy. In total, four CWS regions (Africa, Asia,
Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean) and 16 countries are part of this initiative.
The initial Latter-day Saints Charities allocation focused on the following items and countries:
• Haiti – Sheep and Piglets
• Myanmar - Chickens
• Kenya - One Acre of Sweet Potatoes
• Indonesia – Lifechanging Nutrition
Based on CWS expertise and presence in focus countries around the world, and after
consultation with Latter-day Saints Charities, we expanded focus country allocations to additional
places were CWS could reach vulnerable individuals, families and communities with these items.
Thus, CWS allocated additional Giving Machines funds as follows:
AFRICA ASIA LATIN AMERICA & EASTERN EUROPE
THE CARIBBEAN
Kenya Cambodia Bosnia-Herzegovina
Sheep | Pigs | Chickens Pigs | Chickens Haiti Sheep
Sweet Potatoes Sheep | Pigs
Vietnam Georgia
Tanzania Chickens Paraguay Chaco Chickens
Pigs | Chickens Sheep
Sweet Potatoes Thailand Moldova
Border Camps Guatemala Chickens
Uganda Livesaving Nutrition Sheep | Pigs
Pigs | Chickens
Sweet Potatoes Myanmar Nicaragua
Chickens Sheep | Pigs
Indonesia & Honduras
Timor-Leste Sheep | Pigs
Lifesaving Nutrition
Chickens | Pigs
From March to June 2020, 16 CWS programs in four regions worked with COVID-19 restrictions,
security and political unrest and other obstacles to prepare communities, procure and deliver
livestock and agricultural inputs, liaise with local government and community authorities and
define program support activities, including training, transportation, vaccination, among others.
The table below summarizes the funds allocation, showing the funding received from Latter-day
Saints Charities in February 2020 and the Total Allocations made by CWS as of May 2020.
Total Received Total Allocated Unallocated
(as of Feb. 2020) (as of May 2020) Balance
One Sheep $ 610,140 $ 609,744 $ 396
One Piglet $ 397,700 $ 382,124 $ 15,576
Three Chickens $ 557,352 $ 516,289 $ 41,063
One Acre of Sweet Potatoes $ 187,200 $ 183,884 $ 3,316
Lifechanging Nutrition $ 131,865 $ 131,467 $ 398
$ 1,884,257 $ 1,823,508 $ 60,749
CWS will submit the full actual funding allocations in December 2020.
IMPACT OF COVID-19 The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected
the lives of billions of people around the world.
In-country and cross-border COVID-19
MITIGATION MEASURES ON mitigation measures have affected the mobility
PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION of people and goods.
CWS continues to monitor the situation in
all settings and adapt as the circumstances
allow. Our focus continues to be supporting
communities/beneficiaries, implementing
partners and their staff, ensuring duty of care
and managing risk for the health and safety
of staff, partners and communities.
PROGRESS BY COUNTRY
KENYA, UGANDA AND TANZANIA
The goal of the program in Africa is to improve food security and to promote the economic
empowerment for 9,385 small holder farmers in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
As of June 2020, the Kenya project has introduced the initiative to the key stakeholders at all
levels, identified and profiled participants, and conducted a baseline survey.
CWS has formed 304 groups (260 for livestock, 44 for sweet potatoes); each group has an
average of 30 members. The group selected leaders that were trained on group dynamics and
each group is under the guidance of a LEAD farmer.
In detail:
• Trained all 9,385 farmers
• 2,583 out of 8,070 farmers received animals (1,029 chickens, 814 piglets, 795 sheep)
• All the 1,315 sweet potato farmers received vines and planted 1,315 acres of crops and
received 3,087 chickens, 814 piglets.
• 795 farmers received three chicks each for a total of 3,087 chickens have been
distributed. These present a 42% achievement so far.
CWS has ensured that farmers receive high quality animals and vines (i.e. merino sheep,
kuroiler chicken, piglets and yellow fleshed sweet potato vines). The remaining animals--
8,913 chickens, 926 piglets and 1,815 sheep--will be distributed in July and August.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its related mitigation measures, namely government
restrictions on movement, several activities did not happen as planned. CWS has adapted
to these circumstances by reducing the size of trainings or conducting them virtually. Access to
suppliers or markets to buy the animals was challenging as most of these places were closed
due to the COVID–19 pandemic. Currently there is easing on movement restrictions, so we will
be able to achieve more in August and beyond.
PROGRESS BY COUNTRY STORY OF HOPE Replacing Losina’s Discouragement With Hope At the beginning of this year, Losina Evarist Elias was discouraged. Her family was struggling to afford three meals a day. They didn’t have enough money to meet their basic needs, and didn’t even have enough clothing for all nine people in her household. Their plot of land wasn’t yielding enough, and the wages that they earned from seasonal labor couldn’t cover all of their needs. Losina had tried to raise chickens before as a way to earn an income for her family, but her flocks kept dying in large numbers. She had a feeling that raising chickens just wasn’t a way that anyone could make enough money to care for a family. We’re thrilled to say that Losina has changed her mind. In March, she joined the CWS Giving Machines program that is helping more than 1,000 farmers in Kasulu district, Tanzania, raise either chickens or pigs. She went to classes and attended workshops on a range of topics relating to raising chickens. Little by little, her discouragement was replaced with hope. “I always believed that building a chicken shelter was expensive and would consume a lot of my money,” Losina says. During the program, though, she learned how to construct a chicken coop using locally-available resources. Then she put what she learned into action. “I collected bamboo not far from here to build the shelter, and used old, rusty metal sheets for the roof,” she explains. Now she has a chicken coop to protect her flock. The larger issue, of course, was the diseases that had wiped out her flocks before. Newcastle, fowl pox, botulism and others kill chickens quickly and in large numbers. Losina and her husband had felt helpless to stop outbreaks before when they started. “Chickens were dying in large numbers because of diseases, and I didn’t know what to do,” she explains. “Now I learned how to vaccinate chickens and prevent chicken diseases.” Armed with this new information, and about to receive three chickens to get her started, Losina is willing to try again. And this time she expects a much different result. “I am grateful to CWS for bringing this project to us as we had the opportunity to learn. Through the training, I will be able to produce in surplus and that will help us to solve several challenges facing my family,” she says.
GEORGIA
The project goal is to promote small scale poultry farming among
poor internally displaced persons and local households to The local community and
increase their incomes and improve nutrition and livelihoods, authorities have expressed
through increasing poultry rearing and production. appreciation for this work.
Two families that received
As of June, 2,445 chickens were purchased and distributed among hens have collected eggs
163 poor households in five communities of Khobi municipality. and hatched 11 chickens.
This households include internally displaced families, women-headed
households, people with disabilities and families with three or more children.
All households took part in training on chicken breeding, led by local staff of Khobi Municipality
Agricultural Extension Center. Each chicken that was distributed had a health and vaccination
certificate. To ensure sustainability of the project, two chicken incubators are being organized in
Khobi and Kheta communities where beneficiary households can bring their eggs for hatching
and start chicken production business.
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
The project goal is to improve sheep production through strengthening the capacity of women
smallholders in regards to sheep managing and dairy production.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its related mitigation measures have affected the implementation
of project activities, specially sheep procurement. As of June, CWS and partners have carried
out all the necessary program preparation activities: we have hired a veterinary service, secured
procurement of sheep, signed an agreement with local authorities, selected the 20 recipient
families, and defined our sheep health strategy.
Procurement of sheep will be completed in the next few months, as well as minor repair work
on livestock sheds and distribution of sheep to 20 families. Training and visits to introduce new
methods of sheep managing and breeding will be done with other local farmers.
MOLDOVA
The project goal is to improve livelihoods and food insecurity among rural population from poor
communities in Moldova. As of June, 3,000 chicken had been purchased and distributed to 150
poor families (750 people) living in Drochia region. Each family received 20 chickens.
Initially, we planned to distribute around 30 chickens per family. However, during discussion with
participants and local authorities prior to purchase, it was decided to include more families in the
project – demand was high in this area of Moldova. Many people benefiting from this project are
older or belong to a vulnerable group, such as people with disabilities, and for them it was easier
to take care of a smaller number of chickens.
The COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictive measures in place in Moldova made the
purchase, transport and distribution of poultry more challenging, resulting in a slight delay in
implementation. In the coming months all families are expecting expert and veterinary support
visits on chicken keeping and breeding. We will follow COVID-19 prevention measures.
VIETNAM
The goal of the Vietnam program is improved economic wellbeing and food security for 600
families in five northern Vietnamese ethnic minority communes.
As of June:
• 601 target families (100%) and 2,996 people (111%) reached in 16 villages
• 15 broiler-raising groups formed with a total of 300 families
• 20 hen-raising groups (for eggs) formed with a total of 301 families
• 10,505 chickens (100%) are vaccinated
• 10,505 chickens distributed to 601 families (9,000 young breeding chickens for broiler
raising groups and 1,505 chickens for hens-raising)
• All families received a total of over 10,000kgs of chicken feed
• All families made their new/upgraded chicken coops with instructions from CWS and
commune vets
Government restrictions on transportation and people gathering due to COVID-19 resulted in
a one-month delay in program implementation. Most activities started in May once initial
restrictions were lifted.
CAMBODIA The goal of the Cambodia program is to improve farming family food security in 54 villages through chicken and pig rearing. As of June, CWS completed the selection farmers. Due to COVID-19 travel and gathering restrictions trainings and distribution of animals were postponed to July. In the meantime, CWS liaised with six Commune Councilors, colleagues from Cambodian NGO partners and community leaders. Collectively 1,450 families were prioritized to join the program. We used government classifications for “Poor: Level 1 and Level 2.” Women-headed households, families with high many children, people with disabilities and families with little or no farmland were particularly prioritized. CWS staff and project partners also identified vendors to ensure an adequate quantity of high-quality chickens and piglets. In addition, the team worked closely with the government’s District level agriculture team to plan education (basic information sharing) and training for all participating families. Education and training sessions were planned to start from the second week of July and continue into early August. After this families will start building chicken coops and pigsties. Chickens will be shared with families later in August, followed by pigs in September. THAILAND This program aims to improve the nutritional status of refugee children from six months to 2 years old and ensure, in the medium and long term, that refugees who return to Myanmar will do so with healthier children and improved nutrition and care knowledge and practices. This will be done through the provision of BabyBRIGHT, which is The Border Consortium’s fortified complementary food. BabyBRIGHT delivers the vitamins and minerals vital for young children to reach optimal health, and the program complements it with large-scale nutrition campaigns, group discussions, home visits and cooking demonstrations. This program is implemented by The Border Consortium, a CWS partner. It is the only organization providing food support via a Food Card System and the program called “Healthy Babies, Bright Futures: Community-based Infant & Young Child Feeding,” for refugee families with young children in nine camps in the Thailand-Myanmar border. The program targets at least 75% of children 6-24 months in two of the nine camps. As of June, 2,264 children (target 2,640) in two camps received a two-month supply of the complementary food, and the same number of caregivers received nutrition education and counseling. Activity start-up implementation was delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions. Group activities including cooking demonstrations, information-sharing and nutrition education have been adjusted to smaller groups. COVID-19 prevention measures and messaging have been included into the program. Presently, as restrictions have been lifted, distribution and education activities continue.
MYANMAR The goal of the program in Myanmar is to support nutritional diversity and income generation for poor rural families with an additional supply of protein for balanced diets, and eggs and chicks to sell for extra income. During the months of April to June, CWS and local partners YMCA of Maubin and Myanmar Baptist Convention Union identified 3,802 families as priority recipients for two hens and one rooster. A total of 21 family-owned hatcheries on the outskirts of Yangon transported already-vaccinated chickens to 57 villages located about three hours west of Yangon. Families arrived at designated pick-up points to get a short orientation and sign receipt rosters for the local breed (Chittagong) chickens. After local public health authorities allow gatherings of more than five people at a time, village volunteers and CWS will stage workshops for families interested in commercial production of eggs and chicks. Commercial production entails a ratio of 10 roosters to one hen, enclosed/ fenced coops, and additional supplies and equipment to incubate and safeguard eggs. Assuming no restrictive pandemic lockdowns and obstructive weather/road conditions (e.g. flooding, mud) an estimated additional 5,000 families are slated to receive hens and roosters in the July to September timeframe as hatcheries ramp up production for CWS.
PROGRESS BY COUNTRY STORY OF HOPE A Chicken Hatchery’s Largest Order Ever in Myanmar Chicken farm owner Saw Edmond lives in Ywar Thit Pine Village on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. He and his wife, Mi Mi, have owned and operated their hatchery business for the past twelve years. Saw Edmond and Mi Mi grew and improved their business through years of study and mentoring from other, more experienced hatchery owners. Their sixth-grade daughter, Eint Phoo Myat, helps with some chores around the hatchery when she’s not in school. Mi Mi and Eint Phoo Myat collect eggs daily to put them in a cool and dry place before moving them in an incubator. Chicks hatch 21 days later and are moved with their age cohort to designated areas on the farm. The family feeds and vaccinates the chickens for the first four months, and then the baby hens are mature enough to sell to a family as egg-laying hens. Most customers come from neighboring villages. The average order is approximately 100 chicks. Recently, though, Saw Edmond received his largest order ever. It was for more than 3,000 chickens. CWS was the customer. As part of our program to help families overcome hunger and poverty in Myanmar, with support from Latter-day Saints Charities, we are distributing chickens to thousands of families. Each family receives a small starter flock as well as information and workshops on raising chickens, building chicken coops, making chicken feed and keeping their flock healthy. When possible, we purchase supplies from local vendors to support the local economy. Saw Edmond is one of those vendors. Saw Edmond was grateful to receive this historic order from his hatchery. “I appreciate CWS for these large orders, since the revenue is helpful for our general operations and livelihood. I also want to invite CWS and interested people to visit my hatchery; I will explain to you everything you want to know,” Saw Edmond said with joy.
This chart is from the Sight and Life report linked below (page 2). INDONESIA The aim of the Indonesia program is to increase food security among extremely poor, food insecure famlies in West Timor, Indonesia and work to improve the nutritional status of children under five in these families. CWS began project start-up activities in March 2020 and, together with government colleagues and community leaders, identified 2,951 families, prioritizing extremely poor, food insecure families with young children to participate in the project. Women-headed households, families with pregnant and lactating women, persons with disability and families with school-aged children were particularly prioritized for project support. The CWS team also identified vendors to ensure an adequate quantity of high-quality piglets, chickens and eggs, as there is increasing evidence that eggs alone are an excellent nutritional supplement source for young children. CWS worked in partnership with Government of Indonesia agricultural development workers to ensure support to program families so pigs and chickens are healthy when shared, and stay healthy while being raised. Families participating in the project have started building chicken coops and pigsties which will be ready by the time chickens and pigs are shared with families. Sharing of chickens and eggs will start in July, followed by pigs in August. HAITI Since 2018 Haiti has been immersed in a political and security crisis that has severely affected rural family incomes. Without access to markets families had sold assets to ensure they have the cash needed to access basic services. This crisis has been exacerbated with inflation and poor yielding crops. This program aims to recapitalize 2,279 families in four departments by providing them with pigs and sheep. As of June 2020, CWS has identified local partners and carried out all the preparations for the purchase and distribution of pigs and sheep. However, the security and political crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have severely affected mobility of people and goods, and access to markets and communities around the country, resulting in delays in the implementation of activities. CWS expects to complete implementation of program activities by the end of 2020.
PARAGUAY This program aims to strengthen food security in 10 indigenous villages (Enxet Sur People) in the Chaco region of Paraguay by increasing their sheep herds and improving animal care techniques. The COVID-19 pandemic and its related mitigation measures have affected the implementation of project activities. In early March the government of Paraguay declared a strict quarantine that required all project field activities to stop, and all planned activities were cancelled. The project´s team focused on giving remote accompaniment to leaders and families and supported the claims for humanitarian assistance. In early May, a “smart quarantine” phase started in Paraguay and commercial activities and transport were resumed with the implementation of health protocols and timetables. Indigenous communities remain isolated and don’t leave their territory or allow visitors to come in including NGO staff. Project activities will be resumed in July, when CWS will visit the communities and provide technical assistance and supervision on animal breeding. The plan is to build the corrals and buy and distribute the sheep and rams in September. GUATEMALA, HONDURAS AND NICARAGUA The project aims to reactivate the economy and improve the food security conditions of families, diversifying their livelihoods, enhancing the use of animal proteins and fertilizers in rural communities of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. The COVID-19 pandemic and its related mitigation measures have affected the implementation of project activities. These were planned to begin in Central America between March and April, before the start of the rainy and hurricane seasons. However, Government-imposed lockdowns to prevent the spread of COVID-19 halted activities in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Since then CWS has continued to communicate with partner organizations, both to monitor the development and response to the pandemic, as well as to plan the restart of project activities. As of June, restrictions were still in place in the three countries. CWS plans to restart activities in July, as restrictions are being lifted. During August, CWS and partners will begin purchasing sheep and pigs, training communities and vaccination of animals.
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