A farming cooperative for widows and orphans in Uganda will get a tractor and other equipment to improve production.

Women and Girls > Empower AIDS Widows - Save a Community

Empower AIDS Widows - Save a Community

Summary

A farming co-op of AIDS widows and orphans in rural Uganda is working toward economic sustainability for 100 women or child-headed families, plus local orphans and disabled people, (1600 people). read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $9,500 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In a region devastated by AIDS, widows have joined small plots of land to form an organic farming co-op. With your help, they bought equipment, started training programs, learned solar food processing, opened a sewing business. The work already underway will eventually sustain this community and spur regional development. Right now they need farm animals, school supplies, and tools for children's health. Help these women keep developing their community for a truly sustainable future.

Activities

4 year plan includes skills training, new crops & markets, food processing technology, tailoring business, anumal husbandry.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $9,500

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $9,500. The original project funding goal was $9,500.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The goal is to move from subsistence farming to income-generating projects. The project will affect the larger community by improved nutrition, better health, HIV/AIDS education, sustainable agriculture and greater employment.

Project Message

We can create an environment for survival, growth, development & education of vulnerable children and households at grass roots level. We can join hands and support the most vulnerable ones.
- Joseph Onyango, Executive Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Joseph Onyango,
Executive Director
P.O.Box 5040
Kampala,
Uganda
+256-75 964642
Email:

Project Sponsor

The River Fund

Organization

The River Fund
11155 Roseland Road, Unit 16
Sebastian, Florida 32958
United States
772 589-5076
http://www.riverfund.org

Learn more about The River Fund and the project team.

The River Fund's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Housing & Education for AIDS orphaned girls

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Uganda and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 07, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 02, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

October Site Visit

By Jaya Canterbury-Counts - Executive Director, The River Fund, November 07, 2008 01:29 PM

Last October, we visited the Rayland Rural Development Organization in Uganda, a community we are helping toward economic sustainability. Lynde Francis, from The Centre Zimbabwe, was inside the vocational training center teaching about 50 people “Long Term Survival Skills for HIV.” I went to see the new bakery -- powered by charcoal fire since there is no electricity in this village. That’s when I saw the starving young woman and her baby. The baby was tiny and listless. The mother was too malnourished to produce milk for the baby.

In rural villages, this image of mother and child is far too common. I greeted her and shook her hand in the Ugandan way. Our good friend Joseph, who runs the RARUDO project, and I agreed that we had to help this person who was in our path. Within 24 hours we had medicine, safe housing, a bed, blanket, food and supplies for the baby. We learned the woman had been starved and beaten by her husband. She had head wounds and a broken leg from being thrown. She had returned to her village, but had no family to help her. The women we trained will look after her – even though they told me they see many like her every day.

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