From a day laborer to a debt-free entrepreneur: Jimmy is proof that when you pair hard work with personalized business training, the results are staggering. Today, his family isn’t just surviving—they are scaling a business.
Jimmy was grateful and relieved when his neighbor hired him to help in a poultry processing business. The stable work gave him the income he needed to provide for his family, and he also gained valuable skills, including raising chickens, caring for them properly, and butchering them to sell meat.
It wasn’t until he noticed his neighbor receiving specialized business training from Mentors International that Jimmy realized there was an opportunity for him to build something of his own.
Jimmy wasn’t looking for a handout; he was seeking knowledge. He joined our business training program to learn the fundamentals of record keeping, market pricing, and financial discipline. Through the “Giving Machine” program, his family received their first set of chicks for fattening, not as a simple gift, but as the “start-up capital” for a business he now had the skills to run.
The results in just four months are staggering. Jimmy has tripled his monthly revenue and, perhaps most importantly, cleared his debts entirely.
Jimmy’s family works alongside him, fattening their own chicks to be ready for market every six weeks. The extra income is already being tucked away into a family savings account, with the goal of finally making much-needed repairs to their home.
“We feel that we are going to go far with this venture,” Jimmy says. “And best of all, we are not alone.”
