Monday 2 April 2012

Catching up with Honest Matabire

Honest is one of the emerging leaders at Crossroads Community Church and he is 21 years old. He graduated from Ebenezer Training Centre in 2010 and in 2011, he completed his graduate year at Ebenezer. Honest joined Beyond Belief in mid-December 2011 and he is based at Ebenezer. He works with broiler chicken farmers in Mablauwuni community as well as working with the apprentices at Ebenezer.

Each broiler chicken farmer in the community has approximately 1,017 chickens which take 6 weeks before slaughter. The average weight per chicken is 1.9kg. There is a market in Bulawayo for these chickens. Some of the challenges faced is mortality. The average weight for mortality is 1.7kg. The chickens eat on average 900kg chicken food per week but this is dependant on the growth of the chickens.

Honest is enjoying working with the farmers in the community and he uses his visits to minister to them as well.

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