The supply of a small flock of chickens or batch of day old chickens to a disaster affected family not only provides an

 improved food source but also more hope in the hatching of an egg or growth of a baby chicken.

Ever present disaster possibilities press for the need to build numbers of breeding stock so that they can be distributed

as secondary relief response following future disasters.

The scare from the 2009 Samoan tsunami also highlighted the vulnerability of the Solomon Islands because of the many

active volcanoes in the country.

 The Solomon Islands like others in the Pacific were all at risk from the tsunami arising from the Chilean earthquake of March 2010.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Flood tides spoilt food crops and fresh water supplies in Ontong Java Atoll where the specialist Naked Neck chicken

breeding program was also threatened.

Rescue and build up of these breeding numbers of special kokorako from Climate Change affected Ontong Java

is also an urgent need.

In recent years people in some part of the Solomons have suffered a food crisis or natural disaster several times a year.