The Project is tackling severe famine in Aparis Village, Eastern Uganda, by operating five village-based feeding centers. The project has immediate emergency food relief and build long-term food security
Severe drought has caused crop failures, leaving over 300 vulnerable families facing extreme starvation. Children, orphans, child-headed households, and elderly widows are going to bed hungry. and infants are suffering from severe malnutrition. Mothers are walking up to 10 kilometers just to find basic food items like posho,
Emergency Village Meals: Providing daily hot meals (posho, beans, greens, silver fish, porridge) to any vulnerable child at five local centers. Baby Milk Program: Supplying milk and enriched porridge for severely malnourished infants under the age of three. Household Support: Delivering large take-home food packages (including 100kg of posho) directly to the most starving households
Target: Deliver 120,000 meals over the next 12 months and support the 50 most vulnerable households. Economic Loop: $25 donations stay directly within the Kumi district to buy food from local farmers and employ local mothers to cook. Sustainability: Building a community kitchen and launching the "Garden for Tomorrow" program to train families and plant fast-growing vegetables for long-term recovery.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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