The Chicken Mission NGO Start Up

I started a small business called Coco Poultry Farms when we imported a few chickens because the local birds at our beach house had never given us an egg and I thought "maybe others may want our chickens too."

Our little business has had some great successes and some horrific failures. We have had mix ups, screw ups, and mess ups but no "I give ups".

We endure. We start again. We repair.

It’s all part of being a farmer. It’s part of being human.

This Christmas, one of our recent customers has lost everything. He works hard as a contract worker in the Middle East and is trying to build a better life for his family in Mindoro. Typhoon Nona shattered his dream.
This sad news made me think a lot.

We offered to give him some birds. Then another customers contacted us and said they will give ducks.
I knew it was time to launch a dream of mine: The Chicken Mission.

The Chicken Mission will be an NGO community service organization that’s purpose is to improve the lives of the Filipino through sustainable agriculture. It will give a fresh starts to those in need with the acumen to succeed. It will create an alumni of those who were given a fresh start so that they may pay it forward by in turn assisting the less fortunate in their communities. Often, all it takes is a start.

Coco Poultry Farms proudly supports five families. Our modest sales cover feed costs, salaries for workers and utilities but not much else. 

In order to get The Chicken Mission started, we need help in the costs associated with starting Non Governement Organization. We need to file with the Philippine SEC as a non-stock, not for profit corporation and jump through a few hoops to get us off the ground.

Once established we will do our best to change lives.

How will we we help?
1. Identify candidates that, given some opportunity, will embrace it and maximize success with their new resources.
2. Educate the candidates in the opportunity being offered.
3. Garner a commitment to the program, a refusal to squander resources and willingness to pay forward in his or her local community from successes

People in the Philippines have offered to:
1. Volunteer to become a mentor, committee member or even board member.
2. Volunteer time, resources and or livestock to the program.

How can you help?

Donate a few coffee drinks worth of your hard earned currency to the program.

My commitment
1. Transparency with regard to finances and donations with CPA oversight
2. Ensure that we do not treat your cash donations frivolously

Once established, we will be hitting people up again to assist in buying feed, vaccinations and basic supplies.

I am willing to kick the program off by donating 50 sets of 4 chickens per year as well as potentially setting up quail breeder programs, goat upgrade breeding services, vermiculture programs and even aquaponic fish and vegetable set ups.

All we need is a boost right now to get us going.

I never imagined myself as a crazy chicken man. You probably never thought about assisting a crazy chicken man give chickens away. 

I would love to include you on my crazy journey. 

Thank you.

Our www.thechickenmission.org website will be up before the end of the year. 

Our facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/TheChickenMission/

The farm's website is www.cocopoultryfarm.com

You can read our amazing three year journey at http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/731675/getting-the-flock-out-of-here-a-diary-of-a-crazy-chicken-man/0_50 

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