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ETHIOPIA 2017. Ethiopia Youth Story - Chicken Production Project

May 2017. Ethiopia. Interview with Amiat Ahmed, beneficiary of the Chicken Production Project, funded by the Italian Development Cooperation and implemented by FAO in Amhara Region, Ethiopia, in order to promote alternatives to migration for Ethiopian rural youth.

Find out more about the project on Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction in Ethiopia and Tunisia: http://www.fao.org/rural-employment/work-areas/migration/rym-project/en/

Duration 4m47s

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Video Type B Roll Video

Date 05/30/2017 12:44 PM

File size 387.69 MB

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Shotlist YOUTH STORY PACKAGE: CHICKEN PRODUCTION PROJECT

(AMIAT AHMED)

AMHARA REGION

Language: Amharic

Shot: May 2017

Interview

00:03 - 00:07: My name is Amiat Ahmed

00:10 - 00:13: I am 27 years old

00:15 - 00:23: I have a two-year and nine month old son.

00:10 - 00:18: I like to care for the chickens. I see my future success in these chickens.

00:25 - 00:31: When they grow we sell them for income

00:33 - 00:43 Locally I share experiences to local young girls through an NGO project about the challenges of illegal migration

00:46 - 00:53: I faced lots of challenges on the way. The travel was especially very challenging for women walking in the desert

00:54 - 00:57: It was quite different from my expectations

00:59 - 1:24: When I left to migrate, my intentions were to buy oxen for my father, jewellery and clothes for my mother and support my brother who was in university. I did all these things.

1:27 - 1:46: I have a cute son. I don’t want to leave him. but I cannot say huge life challenges cannot drive young men to take migration as an option. If I should leave for migration again I’ll do it the legal way.

1:48 - 1:53: These chickens are well raised and are vaccinated regularly

1:56 - 1:58: We work together in love and team spirit

1:58 - 2:01: In the future we will produce chickens here and become successful.

2:01 - 2:09: We want to be a model for young people not only in Ethiopia but worldwide

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B-Roll (Chicken Production Project

3:14

B-Roll (Youth Group Meeting)

3:49

B-Roll (Home with Son)

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Script Each year, rural areas lose a promising share of their workforce, as youth leave their homes and migrate to cities or move abroad in search of a better future. The risks, unknown. The distress induced by poverty and a lack of employment opportunities push many youth around the world to search for jobs elsewhere. By addressing the links between distress migration and rural development, FAO is making a difference in Ethiopia. A project on youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction - in collaboration with the government and rural stakeholders - is striving to reduce the number of people migrating from rural areas out of distress.

Total Number of Migrants: 12,115,263

National Youth Out Migration Rate: 15%

With funding from the Italian Development Cooperation, the project was launched in 2015 to

provide motivated youth in regions of high distress migration with profitable alternatives. The aim is to promote innovative pathways for youth employment and entrepreneurship in rural

areas -and the impact is already being felt.

Over 350 youth in Ethiopia have now received the necessary training and equipment to launch a local agricultural activity. Animal fattening, sheep and goat rearing, dairy, poultry and egg production, beekeeping, as well as horticulture and fishing, are amongst the initiatives aimed at turning potential migrants into successful entrepreneurs. The pilot initiatives involve 152 youth in 11 groups in the Amhara region and 200 youth in 20 groups in the Oromia region.

FAO also works with the Government to ensure safe mobility, by increasing incentives for regular

and orderly migration.

Creating rural employment opportunities is benefitting both participants and their families.

By promoting agricultural enterprises in migration-prone areas, young entrepreneurs are given the choice to remain in their communities.