Camp Human Nature, a community-led non-profit in Uganda is working to create livelihoods, build food security and mitigate climate change through ecosystem restoration and community training. This project will: 1. Enhance food security by restoring the degraded land around the forest reserve on which the local community depends. 2. Stimulate economic empowerment of women and teenage mothers by training 11 villages on commercial regenerative vegetable growing.
The forest reserves in Kakumiro district have been degraded due to deforestation and sand quarrying leaving shrubland and savannah. This has resulted in prolonged drought outbreak, loss of food security and loss of livelihood for the surrounding 11 villages who depend on the ecosystem, affecting 15,000 people. Many of the women here and in particular the teenager mothers are without income, and with increasing population the community is at risk of food shortages.
Camp Human Nature is a community embedded project with government permission to restore 790 hectares of land surrounding the forest reserve (that is 1128,5 of football fields!) With your support the project can start to 1)Train over 165 women and teenage mothers on commercial food production using nature-inclusive, sustainable techniques (agroforestry) 2)Restore the local ecosystem through agroforestry 3)Secure the livelihoods of 11 villages by empowering 165 women at the heart of the villages.
Through women empowerment this project will secure an income for more than 165 families in the 11 villages, setting the first steps toward a thriving economy. The specific food production through regenerative and agroforestry techniques will contribute to the restoration of the degraded land and mitigate climate change.This enables income generating food production that can continue for the long term because the ecosystem on which it depends is restored and maintained.
