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REPORT FOR WOMEN

The report comprises four groups

Amonikakinei                52        Women

Tororo                           86        Women         

Bugiri                            65        Women

Rwen                            135      Women

Total No. of women       338

Activities

Care for the elderly women

Care for child headed families

HIV/AIDs long term survival skills

Drama source of sensitization

Agriculture

Tree panting

Local poultry

Local piggery rearing

Home visits

Day care centers

Health

Challenges

Developments

Suggestions

Care for the elderly women

Most of these elderly are widows, very old and care for orphans. Some are sickly. We make sure they eat and get treatment as we encourage and care for the orphans they keep. Posho, beans or any other like cassava flour are provided

Care for child headed families

Since every school age going go to school. These are given food for eating at home and at school being a special group. Uniforms and others clothes are given to them including soap, and all other necessary needs, whenever funds are received our kind donors.

HIV/AIDS (Long term survival skills)

All our women leaders are fully trained in long term survival skills, they are very helpful to the groups they lead and communities surrounded. They have self awareness and they have no stigma.

Guidance and counseling is always done to members concerned and those in needs. Most people around us have overcome stress.

Drama

This group is very special in our groups. It has trained many people not to fear HIV/AIDS when they see their drama and singing. Communities and people are self-aware of themselves due to the drama group. It has educated many people as they watch their activities.

Agriculture

It’s our base in all our four groups. Most people depend on agriculture to get food. For us members we all practice agriculture. We grow crops like sweet potato, Irish potatoes, millet, sorghum, cassava, ground nuts, green vegetables etc.

Tree planting

It is ongoing project which is done by al members. We get timeliness for sell, firewood, and charcoal.

Local poultry

Local poultry is easy for our women. Each one does is in her own way in numbers they can manage but we keep on encouraging them to vaccinate them using the veterinary officers. We get eggs and sell of the cocks and hence as a source of small income for the needs of the family.

Home visits

Visitations are mostly done to the elderly women who are HIV/AIDS positive then the child headed family. These groups always need guidance and counseling according to their ways of life, needs and demands of life.

Day care centers

Since Covid period disrupted things are not good but we are trying to overcome this problem. The elderly and children are treated in the same way because of their demands which are almost alike besides going to school is only for the school age going. Our counselors are the trained members.

Challenges

Our second season started late with a drought then rain was received late, the yield was then poor. We could not get seeds for planting in the first season which we will begin planting in February.

Developments

The children are beginning on the 9^th of Feb. we are busy buying maize and beans for children, uniforms are being bought and made before that day.

Scholastic materials will be given to our children so that by the time schools begin they will be equipped.

We received funds from our donors through the River Fund that is why we are very busy looking forward to getting  the needs of our children in time.

Suggestions

On behalf of the women I suggest that we equip women with seeds for planting in May so that they get ready for planting in July in time for better yield to avoid losing seeds.

Right now our women are planting the seeds they got but it was not enough.

Compiled by: Teopy

God bless you.

WOMEN ‘S REPORT OF THE 26^TH SEPTEMBER, 2022

This report carries four groups of women

Tororo           101

Bugiri             64

Amoni            51

Rwen              135

Total               381

OUR ACTIVITIES

Care for elderly women

Education of children

Care for child headed families

Healthcare - HIV/AIDS (long term survival skills)

Drama for community sensitization

Agriculture

Goat rearing (small scale)

Local poultry

Home visits – HIV /AIDS elderly women, child headed

Day cares

Fees top up  - for the very needy

Others 

• Developments
• Challenges
• Suggestions

CARE FOR ELDERLY WOMEN

We take of these widowed elderly women. Most of them lost their daughters and sons who left them with children that need help.

Our concern is to give them food and make sure children go to school, and get them with needs for education.

As we got money in August to buy food and seeds for planting and buying food for our women we gave them extra food because they are very needy.

The funding was from our donors through River Fund.

EDUCATION OF CHILDREN

We are in term three of learning of our children and they are at school right now, there is no disturbance in our children’s learning they are getting on smoothly.

CARE FOR CHILD HEADED FAMILIES

These children live alone and they care for themselves, we are very keen on them.

We make sure that they are not stressed and we try to give them love and take the position of their lost parents since we are the members of River Fund we keep our motto to help those in need.

HEALTH CARE

HIV/AIDS (long term survival skills)

This group lives positively and has abandoned stress and stigma. It is the group from which our drama group originates. The trained members always visit these members to counsel and make sure they practice long term survival skills and that they survive through these skills.

We make sure they attend clinic days without fail and some of them are volunteers in the art department to write with clinic offers to arrange files and give out medicine on clinic days.

DRAMA

This group is our tool in sensitization of AIDS / HIV.  

Members live positively and freely

They sensitize the community on HIV/ AIDS through music, dance and drama. And this has educated our communities a lot, there is no stress, people live knowing what they are (self-awareness)

AGRICULTURE

Our basic way of life

We get food through agriculture practice

This season looks fare because the seeds planted are doing well.

These are beans, maize, ground nuts, soya and green vegetables. There is rain now in this season, whatever planted is growing well.

GOAT REARING

It is at small scale but it is doing well. At least every member has a goat in her home and able to take care of it, it is easy to keep and maintain.

LOCAL POULTRY

We have tried very much to train our members to practice local poultry

One can eat and egg or sell it and sell a hen or a cock and get a small income and to this every member practices. They are small and easy to maintain.

HOME VISIT

We visit our members especially those who need counseling or take drugs, for those that have problems sometimes take them for treatment when sick and take food for them.

We also visit the elderly and take food for them.

Sometimes wash their clothes and take them for treatment when they are sick.

DAY CARE CENTRES

These are just coming up Covid affected them a lot but we are trying to maintain them.

FEES TOP UP

This is done to those very needy especially children in the family of the old women and very needy children and withdrawals are made we always keep for them the top up of school fees.

DEVELOPMENTS

Our crops are doing well and we expect good yields the season is good

All our children are at school and those in no disturbance in learning are going on smoothly.

We gave some food to our children and their parents when we received funds from our donors.

CHALLENGES

We had a long drought and we faced a challenge of having no food in the last season.

SUGGESTION

We are planning for next year 2023. Our prayers is to pray for our kind donors to be well so that we keep touch to at school,and get scholastic materials funds are released .

Thank you.