Yesterday I spent a few hours at the abattoir. It was a good chance to talk to the employees and I got a lot of good information that I'll be able to work into a report. Unfortunately, one of the freezers was not working, which meant they couldn't process chicken yesterday (nowhere to put them when done).
The crisis is that we probably won't be able to process anything for the next couple weeks. So we had an emergency meeting today and ran through our options. For now, we're going to sell our chickens to the live market. We'll actually be making more money this way, but the price is very unstable, so we can't count on this in the future. We also had to determine how to allocate the profit, because Kumbula is supposed to be buying the chickens from the farmers, but at the price they should buy at, our farmers are making losses (mainly because they're not very good at raising chickens yet). So we're giving them a bit of a break, and Kumbula is cutting their own profit margin. It seemed a bit silly that we (the AW staff) was deciding that Kumbula would cut their profit margins, but I guess that's how this works.
On a more serious note, one of the other PW interns had to be flown home due to a medical emergency. I've gotten conflicting reports of what exactly is going on, so I'll just say that she was in pretty tough shape, but we're very hopeful that she'll make a full recovery. Of course, we appreciate your prayers.
-Ben
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