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A Chicken per Family Project run by LFT in Iran
16/03/2009

The Lady Fâtemah (a.s.) Charitable Trust
September Lodge, Village Way , Little ChalfontBuckinghamshire, HP7 9PU

February 2009

4,658 kilos of chicken given to 2,727 families from June 2006 to December 2008
Dear LFT Donors, it cost GBP 2.00 per chicken

Proper nutrition is essential for growing children and protein-rich food is especially important. However, when there is a long list of needs to be met from an extremely limited budget, the purchase of nutritious food items is sometimes relegated to the very end of the list. In order to provide at least one nutritious meal with adequate protein content to its orphaned families, IRAC began to distribute a chicken alongside the monthly orphan sponsorship. While cash can be diverted to meeting other needs, mothers have to cook the chicken before it spoils. Apart from physical benefits, orphans and their families also look forward to having a delicious meal together. The importance of this small monthly joy should not be overlooked.

Faithful to its intention, IRAC expanded the “A Chicken per Family” project to include orphaned families in Ahwaz as well.
The table below shows the number of families who benefited from the program each month in 2008 as well as its cost:

Month	Beneficiaries	Total weight (kg)	Price per kg (Rial)	Total cost (Rial)	No. of beneftg. Fam.
Jan. - Qum	Families with orphans	125.00	18,160	2,270,000	68
Feb. - Qum	67 Families with orphans & 3 needy families	118.00	18,200	2,147,600	70
March - Qum	65 Families with orphans & 3 needy families	140.00	19,000	2,660,000	68
Dec. - Qum	61 families with orphans & 10 needy families	114.00	26,600	3,032,400	71
Dec. - Ahwaz	71 families with orphans	150.00	23,000	3,450,000	71
Total		2,444.00		58,657,210	1,390

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With rising food prices, it costs now 2.80 GBP to provide a chicken to a poor family.
In addition, IRAC also purchased a freezer for the Ahwaz office to keep the chicken fresh until distribution. Total disbursements from this project in 2008 are as follows:

Item	Cost (Rial)
Purchase of 2,444 kg of chicken	58,657,210
Purchase of freezer for Ahwaz office	5,100,000
Total expenditure	63,757,210

Dear LFT donors: With your donation towards this project, you not only provided nutritious food to those who are in need of it, more importantly, you brought joy, warmth and a feeling of safety to the lives of needy orphans. Please, enable IRAC to continue this small service.

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Thank you, as always for all your generosity and support without which our work would not be possible.
Yours sincerely,
Amirali G. Karim
Chairman of the Board of
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A Chicken per Family Project run by LFT in Iran 16/03/2009

A Chicken per Family Project run by LFT in Iran
16/03/2009