<![CDATA[ABSTRACTNumerous programs for mustahik economic empowerment had been started by BAZNAS. One of them is ZChicken, a program that focuses on the selling of crispy fried chicken. This study intends to examine ZChicken as a program for mustahik economic empowerment from a variety of angles, including the results attained from the life history of the ZChicken Program’s receievers in Kendal. ZChicken program as a BAZNAS initiative for the mustahik's economic empowerment was examined in this study using a life history method. The findings demonstrate that BAZNAS presented the ZChicken as an empowerment program in the food industry centered around a franchise for fried chicken. This study sheds light on how BAZNAS's ZChicken program for mustahik economic empowerment has developed into a powerful force for mustahik empowerment across a number of locations in Kendal. Some ZChicken program receivers had been success in improving their social economic life because they had a strong desire for making their life better and changing their status from mustahik to be muzakki. Honestly, some of them were failed to run ZChicken program because of some reasons, such as, debt habit, feeling like giving up easily, bad money management, no innovation and creation in selling, and have no desire for growing up together because always hoping for help. From those life stories, some next hopes are to make an innovative regulation in the recruitment, hold some training and motivation program, and carry out the process of chicken and flour marinating independently in order to change mustahiks into muzakkis. Keywords: BAZNAS, ZChicken Kendal, Life History]]>
