WEST AFRICA 4
Running head: WEST AFRICA 1
West Africa
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WEST AFRICA
Introduction
The history of modern Guinea stretches dates back before colonization. Guinea as a state did not come into existence in the year 1958. The modern France that ruled Guinea until the year 1958 drew the current boundaries of Guinea in the Berlin conference that was held between the year 1884 and the year 1885 ((“History of Guinea,” 2001) However, modern Guinea lied on the major empires of West Africa. Guinea has a total population of over 10 million, and it is among the least developed countries in the whole world, ranked at position 182 out of the total 192 countries.
The Condition of People in Rural Guinea
Over 55% of the total population lives in poverty and cannot access basic things like; clean water, education water, as well as health (Rodrigues, Coutinho, CANTO and Oliveira, 2017). According to the report given by UNICEF, Guinea has the highest rate of mortality in the world. It is said that out of the 10,000 live births, over 700 hundred infants die. On the other hand, the physical, economic as well as psychological conditions of the people of Guinea is not very good. Most of the people of Guinea are psychologically disturbed since they can not take their kids to school, they cannot afford the medical bills, and they cannot provide even the daily meals for their families. As per the report was given by UNICEF almost half of the deaths of kids who are below five years are caused by low nutrition (“Malnutrition,” n.d.). Generally, malnutrition contributes to over 3 million deaths of children who are below the age of five. Malnutrition as well as under nutrition places the children of the age of five and below in Guinea at risk of dying from common infections.
Providing Children under Five years with Nutrition
To protect people of Guinea and especially the children who are below the age of five, from being attacked by several malnutrition diseases. There is a need for teaching the adults on how to rear chicken for eggs (layers) or even chicken for meat (broilers). This can serve as an ideal source of protein for the people of Guinea and more so the Children who are under the age of five. This is because chicken needs a small space to keep them as well as a little capital to keep. To make this process of learning how to keep chickens for both eggs and meat, then free workshops should be organized where people of Guinea will be educated on how they can carry out the practice.
Providing the local gardeners association with chickens
The local gardeners in Guinea may not have the capital to buy the chickens and raise them because of their poverty levels (Roessler, Mpouam, Muchemwa and Schlecht, 2016). We will, therefore, provide some chickens to the gardeners association, which will, in turn, distribute them to the gardeners to keep them for eggs as well as meat. The chickens besides producing eggs and being slaughtered for meat they will help in destroying bugs, which invade the vegetable gardens and the droppings of the chickens, will be used to fertilize the gardens. This is a cheap and a biological method of controlling pesticides as well as fertilizing the vegetable gardens. This helps to reduce some cancerous materials that are obtained from chemicals used as fertilizers as well as pesticides.
Creation of Opportunities to Earn a Living
There is an addition of chicken to the country; then the local farmers can take advantage and begin doing a business of selling surplus eggs as well as chickens to other fellow farmers or other people in the country. People who might have attended the workshops and taught how to keep the chicken can also educate others on how to do it at a fee.
Conclusion
Over 55% of the total population of Guinea is, living in poverty and numerous deaths of children under the age of five are caused by malnutrition (Quinn, 2018). The primary objective of this project will alleviate the deaths that are caused by malnutrition, by providing locals with chickens that will be used to provide eggs and meat that will be used as sources of proteins. Experts will also train farmers on how they will carry off the chicken keeping more effectively and profitably. Another objective of the project is obtaining some financial support from some international investment organizations who will provide some microloans, donations which can be in form of funds, chickens, chicken feeds, chicken drugs or any other thing that will help the people of West Africa (Guinea) to get out of poverty and be able to lead a better life. If at the end of the day the number of children who are dying as a result of hunger and malnutrition will reduce and the people of Guinea be in a position of affording some basic needs like medical bills as well as food. Then this project would have attained its objective.
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Quinn, S. A. (2018). Investigating the impact of strategic private sector intervention on the sustainability of emerging poultry farmers (Doctoral dissertation, North-West University). Retrieved from https://repository.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/31043