drinking water like camels!

The OVC Officer slept at the farm this last night and was met wth the smiling and cheerful faces of the project members(Otilia Chitangirofa and Gladys Mudzingenyama).Most encouraging was the fact that we still have 298 birds alive all very healthy. Gladys jokingly said that they are eating and drinking like "camels",which was proven a few hours later when they had emptied almost all the food in the troughs, which were quickly refilled.

The farm is also electrified and this makes the chicks feed even at night. This is a welcome thing indeed, end of the 6th week should find the birds ready for market-the OVC Officer swears that he shall buy the 1st five birds!

May God continue to bless Livebirds, United Baptist Church and Warehouse 242 Church


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keep watchng this blog for more updates on the progress of the Livebirds Project in Odzi, Mutare

Livebird Business Owners Hard at Work!

Youth determined to make the project a success

A visit to the farm today found the youth hard at work trying to clean the brooder, the miracle is in the chickens which are all alive and healthy-after 5days at the farm.

It was agreed that the project owners be their own employees so that they could also make a living from the monthly allowances-without employing any other person outside the project. Gladys is adamant that the project will be a great success and the team has been on the farm since Friday with the other three guys coming in on Friday to relieve them

God bless LIVEBIRDS investments!
Mish

Never going back

Having received the chicks on Friday 4 March 2011 the chicks are now five days old and looking healthy. All are still alive and promising. Hats off to the dedicated youths!!
Some chicks are just enjoying their food on their side meaning that they are healthy and full of appetite which is of paramount importance for their growth.

We have the chicks at last!

We thank God that we have managed to receive the chicks today(Friday), we will send photos of the chicks at the farm,where we delivered them today.The guys here are very eager to see this project  a success,one of the project members(Tendesai)said that we are going to make headlines in the local paper!

God bless Warehouse  242 Church!
Misheck
(OVC Officer)

Marathoners for Africa - See letter from Tabitha and Melissa!

Hi Marc and Stevan and others who love Caiphas and Warehouse!

 

I'm not sure who all to include in this email, but wanted to start a conversation. Tamara will be running the Paris marathon on April 10 and would like to use that event as a possible fund-raiser for Warehouse's partnership with Livebirds in ZM.  Melissa is also training and running a marathon, and I think she would like to be part of this too, but I haven't heard from her in awhile. (Melissa...?)

 

Part of the catalyst is that a SIM missionary from the UK is running this marathon to raise money for vulnerable children and orphans in another work of Caiphas's. His blog, "Running for HOPE"  is here:

 

http://rob-robsmarathonblog.blogspot.com/

 

Would it be possible to use the Warehouse in Africa facebook page and Livebirds blog to help promote Tamara's run and fund-raising?  I will let you all take it from here... By the way, Tamara is leaving for Paris to run a HALF marathon this weekend. Whohooo!

 

Have a great day!

Tabitha

 

Fellow fans of Caiphas-

Yeeess. We are marathoning. While TP, Deb and Tabs are eyeing the Eiffel Tower, I may pass a Longhorn.  My race is the same day in Dallas. I, too, would love to use the momentum to raise dough, ears, etc for Caiphas and HOPE for AIDS in general. My fear is the time factor. Sooo, I'll put up a blogette and hope for the best in the game of posting and linking posting and linking. 

Rob has been able to work with the UK sending office in setting up his blog to send donations directly to Caiphas's project. If I can be a resource for you in doing the same for the US office, let me know. I'll give it a whirl when I get my blog up and running (tsk). 

Let's see how we go this year and maybe we can get our heads together a bit earlier next year to coordinate same-day marathons, generate some buzz and hatch some more livebirds.

Til then,

Melissa + Sweaty 20 mile Brow