From a failed start to a thriving farm: How the right help changed Mphatso Kapito’s entrepreneurship life

In Machinga, Malawi, Mphatso Kapito went from a failed poultry start to leading Destiny Lay Farms, thanks to training and a grant from the Business Acceleration for Youth project.

Mphatso Kapito still remembers the smell. Dead chickens rotting in makeshift coops, his farming dreams literally rotting in the heat of Machinga. He had lost everything, his savings, his confidence, and nearly his belief that a young man from rural Malawi could build something that mattered.

The chickens had died. All 400 of them. Mphatso’s first attempt at poultry farming was a disaster. He had passion and big dreams but lacked knowledge on feed management, cash flow, and the thousand small details that separate successful farms from expensive failures.