HGC Ice Cream Factory in Maiduguri, Northern Nigeria - staffed by refugee widows displaced by Boko Haram
HGC Ice Cream Factory produces 43 liters of ice-cream equivalent to 288 containers in a day, at cost of $15 and sell for $24. Profit of $9 in a day, and $270 in a month. Flavors are vanilla, strawberry, and banana.
Ice Cream Factory will be staffed by refugees from the Al-Amin IDP camp - widows who have been displaced from their homes by Boko Haram.
The four women refugees are:
Amina Mustafa, age 41, has 6 children
Sitiya Atiku, age 50, has 8 children
Rimannam Ali, age 35, has 3 children
Fanna Bulama, age 28, has 4 children
Ingredients are purchased in bulk to reduce cost of transport and going to market to buy them on daily basis.
Profits from the ice cream sales are spent on buying tarps for refugees in the Al-Amin IDP camp. The tarps cost $40 each, and are essential when the weather is cold and wet. Humanist Global Charity bought tarps for the refugees two years ago, but they get worn out - see last photo below:
