{"id":300599,"date":"2018-09-14T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=300599"},"modified":"2018-09-14T17:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:31:12","slug":"manor-farm-travels-to-haiti-to-build-chicken-coops-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/manor-farm-travels-to-haiti-to-build-chicken-coops-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Manor Farm travels to Haiti to build chicken coops for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manor Farm will send nine volunteers to Haiti on September 15 to help build poultry enterprises for families in need in the poverty-stricken Cavaillion region of the country.<\/p>\n

Brendan Nolan is the marketing manager for Manor Farm and is one of the project organisers. He explained to AgriLand<\/em> that the plan is to travel out there for seven days and build a coop for 1,200 chickens.<\/p>\n

In 2015 the project, supported by the charity Haven, built five chicken coops capable of holding 200 chickens each, but hurricane Nassau struck Haiti in 2016 and the coops were destroyed.<\/p>\n

The coops that were previously constructed could hold about 200 chickens each and were capable of sustaining two families, Nolan outlined.<\/div>\n

Manor Farm has been working with the charity Haven since 2015 and, according to Nolan, has been donating between \u20ac20,000 and \u20ac30,000 per year to build chicken coops.<\/p>\n

Haven is a charity that was set up by Leslie Buckley, and his wife Carmel in 2008.<\/p>\n

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The Manor Farm volunteers’ role will be to set the coops up and show the local people how to rear the chickens.<\/p>\n

The company chose Haiti for its charity efforts as “it is the poorest country in the western hemisphere”, according to Nolan.<\/p>\n

In the seven-day period, we will turn a greenfield site into a fully-built chicken coop. Before we leave, a Haven \/ Manor Farm flag will be raised over the site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nolan said that the company will donate \u20ac30,000 to the project and will also cover the costs of getting the volunteers down there.<\/p>\n

“Everyone going on the trip has been asked to raise \u20ac500 sponsorship money,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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