Finally back on the blog!

Finally I m back on blogger. After re-structuring our web page and professionalizing our system (Thanks Hyman) I managed to import my old blogs into the new one.
Many things have happened since February 2010. The Nshilini Microfinance group is doing very well and almost all of them are in the time frame. We had some trouble with the chicken farmers because there was an acute outbreak of chicken pox and ALL the chicken died. I was panicking a little bit because non of the locals knew what kind of disease is killing their chicken. Normally they know the different kind of symptoms and treat them themselves but this time nobody knew the answer. So I took one dead chicken to Mthatha and the Vet in town did a post mortem. He found out that the disease is chicken pox and it is transmitted through mosquitoes. It affects the white and the local brown chicken. We had two options. We either wait until winter comes and the mosquitoes disappear or we can get a vaccine and inject every chicken. Some of the clients decided to wait and the others started a new batch of chicks but vaccinated them.I was very positive surprised about my clients financial managment because all of them had put enough money aside to start all over again. I think that is fantastic!