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                                                                                               SISIVANTHINI 

Sisivathini is a 38 year-old woman, blind since birth.  She lives alone with her mother in a tin sheet shack, living off sales of coconuts that fall in her yard.  At 40 cents each, it was a meager existence.  We have been providing short-term food assistance until a permanent solution could be implemented.  As with many others in similar circumstances,  a micro-credit loan for a chicken business is the solution.  She will buy 50 one month old chicks and raise them for an additional month until they are large enough to sell as broilers.  She will sell them in front of her house to the locals with the process repeating  the following months. The net profit will be about $55. per month.  Two years ago this would have been enough for two people to live on.  With food prices so high it is about 60% of what they require, however, with the coconut sales added to this, she will have enough.   We will provide a loan for $170 for the initial 50 chicks, feed for one month and medicines.  She will pay  10% of her monthly profits to fulfill her commitment to the loan.