Ice Cream Factory in Maiduguri, Northern Nigeria - staffed by refugee widows displaced by Boko Haram

HuMAN 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 is 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.