PROCESSING FEES AND CASSAVE

The maize processing machines were funded by Marrie-schlei Association Germany.

COMMUNITY LITERACY AND ADVOCANCY FOR WOMEN

Our work reaches women and people who have been marginalised; people who often missed out on school due to extreme poverty, conflict or discrimination. Our practical education projects give people the skills and resources they need to make change happen, giving them a new start and turning their hope for a better future into a reality. Community literacy skills are in Health,environment,vocational,agricuture and value chain management based in rural and urban slums.

ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE IN KASESE UGANDA

Child marriage is a global issue. It is fuelled by gender inequality, poverty, social norms and insecurity, and has devastating consequences all over the world. Here, you can discover more about the extent and impacts of child marriage and the progress we’ve made towards ending it. Therefore,child marriage undermines women progressive in Uganda. Let us fight this problem and tell community NO FOR CHILD MARRIAGE.

CLIMATE CHANGE IN KASESE UGANDA

WE need to observe the role of women in climate change mitigations in kasese uganda

FOOD CRISIS

WOMEN IN kASESE HAVE NO ACCESS TO FOOD AS COVID-19 AND DISASTERS GOES ON.

Sex Workers Face New Challenges as Virus Spreads in Uganda

WE REQUEST FOR FUNDING FOR OUR FRIENDS AND SISTERS IN UGANDA NO MONEY FOR SEXUAL WORKERS,NO FOOD AND NO BUSINESS. Throughout Uganda, sex work, though illegal, is common. Uganda remains among the world’s 20 countries with the highest prevalence of HIV, in part because sex workers’ clients often refuse to use condoms, advocates say. Now, a new health crisis has emerged. And the nation’s sex workers say they can’t afford to stay at home. Uganda has restricted public gatherings until at least May 5, closed bars and urged ill citizens to wear masks and practice social distancing. For local sex workers, those restrictions aren’t feasible. As of April 25, Uganda had confirmed 75 cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, zero deaths and 46 recovered, according to the Ministry of Health. Harriet Hope Waseni has been a sex worker for 18 years. She says she has never seen business so slow. She’d be willing to work, she says, if she could find clients. She used to rent a room in the same building that housed a bar. Her clients, mainly fishermen, were an easy catch. Now the bar is closed, and clients are hard to find. She’s tried a few different locations, but the results are the same. Her previous income of about 50,000 Ugandan shillings (UGX) ($13) per day quickly became zero. Sex worker advocacy groups have advised people to halt their work while coronavirus restrictions are in place. Debra Nakatudde, a sex worker and executive director of Serving Lives Under Marginalization, a local organization that provides resources and health care for sex workers, says many can’t afford to stop working. “Some can’t stay at home because sex work is their only source of income for survival,” Nakatudde says. She says many local sex workers are stocking up on hand sanitizer and wearing masks. But that’s not likely to prevent infection for this high-risk population. The best way to stay safe is to stay home, she says. Sex workers are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19, says Hajjara Sanyu Batte, a sex worker and executive director of the Lady Mermaid Bureau, an association of female sex workers. The Lady Mermaid Bureau, now temporarily closed, has over 800 members, all of whom the organization is unable to serve right now. “Activities like mental health support, a weekly fitness class and HIV counseling were all canceled, which means as an association we can’t be as effective as we were before the coronavirus outbreak,” Batte says. And with the organization closed, members have also lost access to antiretroviral and pre-exposure medications, which were previously available there. With limited services and no other options, Waseni and others say they can’t just sit around and comply with social distancing orders. “I have a family to feed,” Waseni says. “Risking [it] is better than staying at home on an empty stomach.”

COVID-19 Reliaf for women and girls in areas of need,Sexul workers,LGBTS And Drug usuers Kasese Uganda

As the country continues to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 health and economic crises, the complexity of experiences and attitudes among LGBTQ and other groups,Ugandans remains underexamined. How are LGBTQ and other sexual individuals handling the coronavirus pandemic? What barriers are these groups facing in accessing and receiving effective health care? More broadly speaking, are LGBTQ individuals facing ongoing discrimination due to their sexual orientation or gender identity? And what effects might these experiences have upon their personal and financial well-being? To better understand these and other questions, the Center for Ugandan Progress, in conjunction with the independent and nonpartisan research group at the African ark college of management sciences, designed one of the most comprehensive surveys to date exploring the lives, attitudes, and experiences of LGBTQ and other sexual minorities remain under descrimations.

Project Title: Promoting Composting and Kitchen Gardening for Safe and Sustainable Food Production in Kasese Area

Problem Statement The farmers in this region of kasese have for a considerable period practiced mono-cropping and over relying on cash crop- tea. Those doing any other kind of farming are poorly equipped and use non sustainable practices responsible for loss of soil fertility, environmental degradation, unsafe and food insecurity. When there is no food the proceeds from the cash crops means very little as most of it goes to food and because it is from the market, it is usually of poor nutritional quality as one goes for what is affordable and available. Despite having nationally revered tea as the cash crop, the farmers are small scale in nature which means that their incomes are meager and hardly enough for initiating other economic initiatives. This is worsened during the dry seasons when the productivity of the ‘savior’ crop is lowest- translating to difficult livelihoods. Sad but true is that bought food stuffs are never satisfying, sometimes contaminated and low in quality due to such factors as financial, handling and time between picking and consumption. However this community has the capacity to use what is naturally theirs, ecologically develop its nutrition security and save money and if possible earn more from the family kitchen gardening initiatives. Rationale for the project Sustainable organic agriculture is a system of farming using local resources and skills to build long-term soil fertility, safe food and nutritional security as well as protect natural ecosystems. This project falls under our mission, which is to promoting sustainable development initiatives among the poor small scale farmers in Central region through participatory practices. This project approach proposes to use the farm resource management for soil fertility building and designed family gardening. It will impart knowledge and skills to the participating target beneficiaries, singling out composting and growing own food in family units as the means to achieving its goal. Using the compost in the family kitchen gardens relate the two best practices. It also calls for a careful integration of the farm resources, enterprises, encourages re-use and recycling thus diversifying the out put and benefits. i. Composting: One of the basic steps to fertility building is using the organic materials and ‘waste’ as raw materials for making quality natural fertilizer. These materials which include the plants remains, crop residues and livestock waste (manure and bio slurry), which will tactfully be incorporated to decompose and give nutrients-rich compost to be used in the family gardens. ii. Establishment of Kitchen Gardens: It is expected that every household learns how to establish and maintain a Kitchen garden. This garden should contain skillfully mixed and diverse crops including indigenous vegetables, cereals and root crops designed to provide balanced diet to the families. It ultimately will support and contribute to womencall centre Uganda’s vision of a just, self reliant rural community which is social-economic and environmentally conscious and sustainable. Its execution adds value to our mandate of building capacity to ensure communities continuous learning and practice of organic farming in Kasese. Our specific goals and specific objectives of the project Goal: Enhance communities’ nutrition and livelihood security by means of building Kasese farmer’s capacity to sustainably manage farm based resources Specific objectives: 1. Stimulate participatory farmers’ reflection upon their current farming and introduce a more sustainable; –diversified, low input, local and viable alternative 2. Train 1000 farmers in 50 groups of about 20 in composting and kitchen gardening with emphasis on sustainability in salutary nutrition production and self reliance. 3. Facilitate group-work and skills-handing over to the community for sustainability by means of follow ups and encouraging farmer-to-farmer learning and networking even with other agencies for their socio-economic progress. Activities 1. Mobilize the farmers kasese to increase awareness - Organize 20 groups 2. Induct and capacity building -Train 1, 000 farmers in the target area 3. Assist in practical adoption (Post training Follow up) 4. Establish enriched Kitchen Gardens 5. Farmer to farmer learning (Local Exchange visits) 6. Monitoring and Evaluation