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WOMEN’S REPORT OF JANUARY 2024

The report comprises four (4) groups of women

1. Tororo                             95
2. Bugiri                              92
3. Amonikakinei                  52
4. Rwen                             135

Total                                          374

Our activities

• Education of children
• Instructional material / scholastic materials
• Uniforms
• Feeding at school
• Feeding at home
• Care for the elderly (widow)
• Child headed families
• Health
• HIV / AIDs (long term survival skills)
• Dram community sensitizationAgriculture
• Goat rearing (local at small scale)
• Local poultry
• Local piggery
• Home visits
• Day care
• Tree planting
• Development
• Challenges
• Suggestions

Education of our children

We are very concerned with our children’s learning in the four grups and we make sure that all school age children go to school in the right time at all levels; Nursery, Primary, Secondary and al higher level of learning, we have a lot of rain

The performance of our children was good in the year 2023; most of the children were promoted to their next levels of learning

Instructional material / scholastic materials

These are given to children at the beginning of every year and we did it in 2023, immediately we received funds from our kind donors to aid our children’s learning. It is always done up to the end of term two of learning.

These are; exercise books, pens, pencils, rulers, crayons, colored pencils and rubbers.

Uniforms

They are provided once a year. We have not done it right now but we are hoping to do it when we get funds.

Feeding at school

We feed our children on beans and maize on mid-day meals since a hungry child cannot learn

Feeding children at home

The children who stay with the elderly widowed are fed at home because some these elderly are very old and feed some of these elderly are very old, and feed their old grand’s who stay with them  

Care for the elderly widowed.

We take care of this group, give them food, check on them and give them food and comfort them when sick, some of them live alone at home last year in RWEN group, and together with the church a small house semi-permanent was constructed. There has been a lot of rain life was not easy 

During Christmas time we gave food but we considered this group highly when we received some funds through the River fund

Child headed families

These are the disabled families headed by the children themselves by we are the side parents to the families, mostly due to HIV/AIDs.

Health HIV / AIDs. Long term survival skills

Our women look health. Keep them treated when sick, practice the skills of long term survival skills, get drugs in time, and get counseling by our trained counseling. They are aware of themselves; they have no stress, no stigma, they practice eating balanced diet as trained

Drama

Our tool for sensitization in our communities a lot of education on HIV/AIDs has been realized through this group and are proud of it has encourage self-awareness, discarded stigma among people, wiped away stress and other related fear of HIV/AIDs in our communities

Agriculture

It is our basic activity in our communities, this way we grow different types of food for survival and grow maize, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, ground nuts, cassava, green vegetables and all other food we can eat in our homes

We were happy that there was rain but instead it was too much and some of our crops got spoiled due to a lot of rains

Local goat rearing.

Animals got a lot of grass and they were happy except the weather was very cold for our animals

Local poultry

We practice it too in every home we can have on some small scale eggs to eat and to sell for some little money

Local piggery

We are up again with piggery in some groups but during this period of heavy rain it has been a problem, pigs grow very quickly but they die very quickly, most of the members who rear them have found it hard and have lost their animals.

Home visits

We have kept visiting our people especially the old widowed, child headed families, HIV/AIDs, (PLW) to encourage them, show love, counsel them, encourage the sick to get their drugs in time and make sure they take their drugs. Educate them on balanced diet; encourage them on ways of life.

Tree planting

In our communities life has been very had on the side of preparing or cooking food if you had no firewood or charcoal indeed people have learnt a lot and have planted more trees, to plan for charcoal, firewood and timber.

Day Care Centre.

These have not been up to date due too much rain it is now again very heavy in this January as you know too much of anything becomes bad.

Fees top up

Last year we tried very hard to top up for the very needy now we don’t know what will happen this year of 2024 but we pray to God

Developments.

1. We were able to send our children to school in time provided food to our child for term one and term two.
2. Scholastic materials were given to our children and the learning of our child was good, in performance most of our children were promoted to the next level of learning.
3. In December we were able to provide food to our people more especially to the most needy and elderly was in December around Christmas time when we received funds on 20^th December 2023 from our donors God bless you.
   
   

Challenges

There is a lot of rain and has spoiled the crops most especially maize and beans have got spoiled. Food will be expensive especially our beans and maize.

We have not given out scholastic materials to our children yet some schools have opened up

Suggestions.

In case funds are realized we should give out scholastic materials, uniforms, food; beans and maize to our children for smooth learning.

Happy New Year

WOMEN’S REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 2023

The report comprises of four groups

1. Amonikakinei         85
2. Rwen                     138
3. Tororo                    90
4. Bugiri                     92

Total                                 405

Our activities

  Education for children

  HIV / Aids / long term survival skills

  Care for  OVC (Orphans and other vulnerable children)

  Child headed families

  Elderly women

  Drama group for sensitization (HIV/AIDS)

  Health care

  Agriculture

  Local poultry

  Local piggery

  Tree planting

  Home visits

  Sex workers

  Development

  Challenges

  Suggestions

Education for children

We make sure that all our children go to school. Therefore most of educational needs are provided to our school age going got to school and these materials are provided to them up to the end of term two of learning of our children. This is done at the beginning of year in January immediately we realize funds from our kind donors, the results are generally good. We thank God for this.

In term three of learning our parents supports their children with some food this is because we provide seeds for planting like maize, beans and other from our donors.

It will be hard this term because there has been a long drought and food is very little. We may do little assistance for child headed families.

HIV/AIDS Long term survival skills

We make sure the people living with HIV/AIDS go for their drugs in time and don’t miss at all.

Long term survival skills

Our counselors always visit the PLWA and counsel and encourage them to help them live positively to be self-aware, overcome stress and stigma.

Care for OVC

Each group tables care of the OVC (orphans and other vulnerable children) and provides them with the basic needs of learning whenever funds are realized through our donors.

Elderly women

These are our old windows that their dear ones have left children for them. These are their husbands and their children.

Child headed families

We take care of these children whom stay alone without parents and need special care and love. We are their parents.

Drama group for sensitization (HIV/Aids) these people are PLWs

They are our tool for sensitization through Music, dance and drama, people have learned a lot of the virus and most of the people in our communities are self-aware on HIV/AIDS no stigma no stress in our communities.

Health care

Our people look healthy, they practice balanced diet program from crops grown and eat food in time as required.

These are green vegetables beans, maize, ripes (bananas) all these are crops grown and others like beans, maize, eggs from their little poultry at home as encouraged.

Our people take drugs in time whenever they are sick, the PLW also go for their medicine in time.

Agriculture

Most of our people practice agriculture because this is the only way they can get food, they grow maize beans cassava all types of green vegetables as they pick and eat.

Each group also gives their members some seeds for planting whenever funds are realized. Mostly maize bans, ground nuts, sim sim, sukuma to add to their local seeds, they plant these are the very seeds which help parents for their children in their term three of learning. This is maize and learns.

Local poultry

Each home in our group has to rear local poultry for their consumption of the family or eggs, chicken, meat and sell of little to earn a living, a very good help in our balanced diet.

Local piggery

This activity has embarked on piggery. Piggery project as the group leaders suggested after a visit of our girls we educated.  Angela and Olivia from Kenya conducted a site visit representing The River Fund. We enjoyed their visit and liked some of the advice they gave, especially working with young girls.

Each group has tried to give pigs to the women started with 50 pigs or 20 then when they produce, each member return 3 to be given to other until all members get, the women are happy because as they sell they will get money to help their families.

Tree planting

All our members have to plant trees. This is our identity as members of the River fund to help those in needs.

These trees help to sell and earn a living sell and get some little money, use for building, firewood and charcoal so members have to work hard in every group.

Home visits

We visit child headed families to encouraged them and give them food and to listen to their problems.

We also visit the sick especially HIV/AIDS families encourage them to get drugs and to go for treatment when they are sick.

To counsel and guide those in need we also visit sex workers to see their children, advise them and encourage them.

Challenges

We are facing a problem in of feeding children mid-day meals because the season has not been good due to a very long drought, parents are not contributing because there is not enough food yet it is needed at schools.

It is going to affect the children learning because a child cannot learn well without food.

Development

Our children’s learning has been good

Children had mid-day meals at school for term one and term two.

Suggestions

If there is a way we can buy food from other places to feed them during this term three of learning to avoid poor learning and maintain good health of our children.

God bless you.