End Poverty? Bill Gates say "answer is chicken"
Want to end extreme poverty? Bill Gates says the answer is chickens. And that's not the name of new Microsoft software.
Mr Gates, the founder of the world's largest software company, says the best thing to improve the lives of the world's poorest is not computers or the Internet but raising a few roosters and hens.
"It's pretty clear to me that just about anyone who's living in extreme poverty is better off if they have chickens," he said this week on his website GatesNotes.com.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has just partnered with the global development group Heifer International to donate some 100,000 chickens to families in sub-Saharan Africa living on less than US$2 a day.
The goal, he said, is to get 30 per cent of the rural families in the region to raise improved breeds of vaccinated chickens, compared with the current five per cent.
The return is better than other solutions, he said: Chickens cost little to take care of, they multiply fast and eggs and chicken meat can boost family nutrition & income.
They also empower women, he said.
"Because chickens are small and typically stay close to home, many cultures regard them as a woman's animal, in contrast to larger livestock like goats or cows. Women who sell chickens are likely to reinvest the profits in their families." more
Mr Gates, the founder of the world's largest software company, says the best thing to improve the lives of the world's poorest is not computers or the Internet but raising a few roosters and hens.
"It's pretty clear to me that just about anyone who's living in extreme poverty is better off if they have chickens," he said this week on his website GatesNotes.com.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has just partnered with the global development group Heifer International to donate some 100,000 chickens to families in sub-Saharan Africa living on less than US$2 a day.
The goal, he said, is to get 30 per cent of the rural families in the region to raise improved breeds of vaccinated chickens, compared with the current five per cent.
The return is better than other solutions, he said: Chickens cost little to take care of, they multiply fast and eggs and chicken meat can boost family nutrition & income.
They also empower women, he said.
"Because chickens are small and typically stay close to home, many cultures regard them as a woman's animal, in contrast to larger livestock like goats or cows. Women who sell chickens are likely to reinvest the profits in their families." more
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Brindha Baskaran has opened the other way what exactly Bill Gates had in mind . The Chickens given by him will make those received , to feed , grow , get itself developed while that itself secures the Economic requisites while as a Computer will not help so in development unless the user develops himself to extend and expand which require a study , knowledge and Skill . more
Jun 15
Whether you work or not in IT companies, if you have an HR supporting the employee, they can get best salary. In case of growing a hen or an crop, they have to work. If the land owner feels lazy he needs to spend to make a worker work. The later will not give an income which an IT employee who does not know what is software or programming works in that sector for the period of even 10 years and get a salary of Rs.100000/ per month more
Jun 15
His saying on Chickens is the real fact that the majority of the people of a country still strive for earning Food/Food-items . Computers and internet cannot do the better than a set of Chickens full fill . This is the issue of maximum Countries in the World . This is why , out Constitution also had a separate provision of preserving banning slaughter of Cows and Calves that makes lot of help for full filling the lively hood of Human Beings in such countries like India where Agriculture and Cultivation besides Farming of Cattle and Hens & Cocks ; sheep & goat . more
Jun 14
