“A Father Learning from his Son” - Profiles on Farmers using KUKUSTAR

Yokosofat Mwayi is a 48-year-old farmer in Budaka, which is located in Eastern Uganda. He has been farming poultry for years and has witnessed the loss of his birds on numerous occasions to outbreaks of Newcastle Disease. 

One day, his son came home and told him and his wife about KUKUSTAR after learning about the vaccine at a local market day (during our KUKUSTAR promotions). He advised his father and mother to vaccinate their birds because it would protect them from the outbreaks. At first, they doubted him and dismissed his claims. However, after many discussions, Omuria's son was able to convince his parents to try the vaccine and they administered it to three chickens.  To their surprise, the chickens survived while others died, and since then, Omuria and his wife started vaccinating their poultry. His son is now the advisor for the community and works as a community-based vaccinator, vaccinating their birds as well as those of their neighbors who pay him to purchase KUKUSTAR and vaccinate their poultry.