Projekte

1. Mukujju Women’s group / Tororo

This group was formed by Mrs. Justine Othieno the Eastern Representative of UDTA at the national level. This is a group of dedicated mothers promoting hygiene and nutrition through entertaining education.
They have also started to provide a programme for alternative tourists who want to see the “real” Uganda.
The group is involved in cultivating, raring goats and turkeys as income generating activities. They also are looking for funding to develop this agricultural project.
Funds would be used for: Increasing the goat-stock so that every group member has her own goat and through that an increase of income.

Report:
“….we received the money and bought 15 local goats and one exotic he-goat. These goats have produced and multiplied. The members of Mukujju Women Group have sent me to thank you very much and they are saying that God may bless you have invested in their likes. We have exchanged some goats for two cows for milk for the children to take. Thank you very much for your consideration.”

2. St. Monica Women’s group / Kotido

This is the champion of 2003 UDTA National Festival. St Monica Women’s group comprises of a group of ladies who strongly oppose the habit of cattle rustling as a means of sustainability. They use performing arts to articulate their opinion, advocate for conflict resolution and make proposals for alternative means for survival for the Karamojong community.

Income generating activities:
(a) zero grazing
(b) Goat farming
(c) Art and craft

Funds will be used for: The Karamojong are cattle holding nomads
In a project it is tried to make women to stay in a certain place by giving them seeds for crops to get a more secure harvest for survival. They are taught how to keep cows zero grazing and to keep goats. In the long run it is hoped that the men will also get settled if their womendon’t join them any longer.
In the culture of the Karamojong women are not allowed to own cattle. The men would take them on their nomadic tours to look for pastures. But the goats could be owned by women and provide milk and meat for the settled women.
So the funds will be used to buy goats for the members of the St. Monica Women’s group to increase their income and support the idea of settled lifestyle.
Funds should be used for to buy goats for the members of St. Monica’s Women’s Group to increase their income and the idea of settled lifestyle.

Foto: Heribert Corn
 

3. Rubuguri Super Stars / Kisoro

Rubugiri Super Stars was founded with the dame objective as those of UDTA with the mission of causing social transformation through entertainment as means of education and effective communication. It is a fuctional cultural organisation involved in Environmental projection projects in Impenetratable Forest in Southern Uganda (Kisoro).

Rubuguri Super Stars is involved in the following areas of income generation.
- Passion fruit farming
- Bee-keeping
- Promotion of the Batwa Community and culture for community tourism while at the same time creating an friendly co-existence between the Batwa and neighbouring communities

Funds will be used for:It is planned to build a tented camp as a meeting point between the Batwa, surrounding communities and also tourists.
The Batwa live since thousands of years in the forests in the same way as they do now. They have values attached to trees and animals, they know about medicinal plants and how to preserve the environment. Their songs and stories keep this knowledge. It can be transferred to the surrounding communities through development theatre by Rubugiri Super Stars and the Batwa in this camp and also create some income for the Batwa.

Foto: Heribert Corn

5. Tree planting project for Kazo County – Mbarara

This project is being proposed as an appropriate intervention measure to check the deteriorating environmental situation in Kazo. Since it is not easy, and to some extent unrealistic stopping people from clearing the thorny bushes and other “unwanted” vegetation, a clear - replace strategy could work. People can plant trees on their farms before and when they are clearing the indigenous bushes such that finally when the original vegetation is gone, they can remain with the planted trees. People also have some small scattered pieces of land which they can not graze, and not being typical crop farmers can not use for anything else, they could thus be encouraged to plant some trees on these ones as well.
Strategy to use
Since we can not cover the whole county with the kind of financial resources available, we shall use a strategy that has a multiplier effect as follows:

• Establish a tree nursery bed at Kazo trading centre, Kazo is like the main centre in the county. From the nursery bed, we can prepare seedlings of various farm and fruit trees and give them out to people for planting.
  
• Begin a tree planting campaign targeting mainly schools. There are three secondary schools, one in each of the four sub-counties in Kazo County. Targeting these ones (for the start) can give us an advantage since the majority of the students in the county are attending these schools. In the schools we shall undertake tree planting on the compounds and use it as a demonstration of seedlings to do so or purchase seedlings from other tree nurseries that are common in the bigger district towns.

6. Construction of class rooms for the Orphans of Mother Care Pre-Primary School in Kabarole

The Abagambakamu Women Group organised themselves and started a Day School of caring of the orphans.
Most of these children have lost both parents and are left under the care of very old, poor and weak grandparents. Others have single parents some of whom are HIV poitive and at times already bed-ridden. So these children lack:
a) parental love
b) control and discipline
c) As a result they roam about in the village aimlessly. They become reckless and wild, they fight and they steal.

Objectives: To gather together these children in one place and provide them with the following:
a) Parental love and care, which they miss from their homes
b) Numeracy and literacy skills i.e. counting, reading and writing.
c) Counseling services so as to enable them avoid self-rejection.
d) Encouragement to look forward to the future in a positive way
e) Sharpening their moral behaviours
f) Removing their depression by mixing them with other children form normal but needy families.

Funds will be used to construct a three-classroom block for the children.

Report:
…We had already erected the building and so your money assisted in the purchase of iron sheets. Our exchange rate was 2,200,. Uganda Shillings for one Euro, so 500.- were enough to by us one hundred iron-sheets.
May the Lord Almighty bles you now and forever and may He refill your pockets a thousand times….