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WOMEN REPORT

OCTOBER REPORT 2017

The report comprises four (4) groups

GROUP

NUMBER OF WOMEN

l.

Tororo

96

2.

Bugiri

65

3.

Amonikakine

52

4.

RWEN

135

TOTAL

348

• Health
• Agriculture
• Care for OVC
• Care for the elderly/widows
• HIV Drama group
• Tailoring
• Hair dressing.
• Crafts making
• Tree planting
• Charcoal making
• Day care
• Child headed families.

Visitors:

- Developments, challenges, suggestions
Health:

- Long term survival skills

HIV/AIDS

• Counselling has been carried on e.g VCT in our communities and referrals have been
  made to clinical centres to help in creation of self awareness.
• There is no much stigma, stress in communication.
• Balanced diet has not been maintained properly due to long droughts experienced
  from early this year to August.
• Our members on ARV s are improving in taking drugs and there are some changes that
  are static in taking drugs.

Agriculture:

Most grown crops grown this year are maize, beans, Sukuma, Soya and ground nuts.

These seeds given to women and planted are: - maize, beans, sukuma, are planted and doing well in Busia, Tororo and Amonikakine. Bugiri has little rain.

Members have maintained local goats, local poultry and piggery on small scale in

their homes.

Care for OVC

All the four groups practice care for vulnerable and orphans.

Some members keep these very needingly OVC in their homes and centres where
they take care of them.

We still take care for the old women by giving them food and some simple help affordably. At times they get porridge and lunch at school mostly is for R WEN  group.

Tailoring

Some youth women have been referred to PEFO for more training and some have
already established and work on the owner so as hair dressing.

They can get some little money to earn a living.

Crafts

Women make mats and baskets for sell mostly in Bugiri.

Tree planting:

All women have tried to plant trees in all groups.

Charcoal making

Women have learnt to make the charcoal out of mad and small particles of charcoal
which they use for cooking in their homes, mostly done by Tororo women.

HIV/AIDS - Drama Group

This group keeps on helping the communities in sensitization ofHTV/AIDS through
drama.

Women (PLW) people living with HIV/AIDS have overcome stigma.

Day care centres

We are making this project and children are feed although there isn't enough food.

We use beans and posho then porridge.

Child headed families

These families have a big problem in getting food and other needs of life. We give the
little assistance that we can afford.

Visitors

In mid September we hosted Mama Jaya from USA in Florida from River Fund. We
had good time with her in Busia,

Developments

Taking of drugs (SeptrinefARVs) has improved.

 There is hope for better yields of crops planted from seeds given to women - Beans, maize, cabbage and other groups like Sweet potatoes, Cassava, G nuts, Matooke, Sim sim, white peas and green vegetables.

Women are happy, strong and health.

Challenges

1. Bugiri area continues to have no rain and there will be no good yield of crops.
2. Transport for taking out a drama group is a big problem to the groups. For had wanted
   them to go to further areas for sensitization.

Suggestion

Day care centres should be created for every group to take care to feed elderly,
widows, children with HIV/AIDS, orphans and very sick people bed driven.

We suggest for transport to help in transporting drama group for better sensitization
and for Visit of members in different places.

Compiled by;

TEOPISTA
Chairperson R WEN

17TH JULY 17, 2017 REPORT
WOMEN REPORT FOR JULY 2017

The report comprises of four groups
Group No OF WOMEN
Tororo 86
Bugiri 65
Amonikakinei 52
RWEN 135
Total no of women 338

Key areas

• Relief food feeding
• Health
• Agriculture
Crops grown; ground nuts, beans, green vegetables, sukuma, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, sorghum, matoke, local poultry, local goat keeping and piggery.

Activities

Care for elderly
Care for OVCs
HIV/drama activities
Tailoring
Hair dressing
Charcoal making
Simple tree planting
Relief food

After mid June to July 2017, we have been able to supply food for our group families and some very needy around our catchment areas
We have succeeded for the relief because of funds received from River Fund

Health
According to our long term survival skills system, our women and children have kept healthy WITH septrine and ARVS. Counseling and testing have been maintained and a wider room for positive living and most of our HIV/AIDS infected persons have tried very much to overcome stigma

Agriculture
The season was not so good, the yields of our crops was very poor much as the crops like beans, maize, sweet potatoes, cassava, green vegetables and more other had been grown. There is little relieved of hunger.
Gardens are being ploughed for the second season but rain is still little although the seeds like maize, beans, sukuma have been supplied to the women for planting
Local poultry is on, piggery, local goats keeping under hard struggle to feed them is also on going

Care for elderly
We have supplied them with posho and beans for in June and this is on going to July

Care for OVCs
They are somehow happy and this period they can eat meals at school and at home
HIV/AIDS, DRAMA GROUPS
The groups keep sensitizing the communities on HIV/AIDS through music dance and drama

Tailoring
This is ongoing and the youths have been referred to PEFO a local partner organization, some women are now making small scale tailoring to earn their living.

Hair dressing
Some women have made their own small saloons and work together with others for survival
Tororo group has continued with charcoal making and this system will cover the four groups

Tree planting
Most members of the four groups have maintained this project for fire wood and can earn a living through the project

Ongoing activities
Potatoes’ growing, cassava, maize, beans, matoke, green vegetables among other crops
Poultry, piggery, local goats, cows

Developments

Through funds received;
• We have been able to feed the families of members of our groups and needy families of our catchment areas
• Seeds like maize, beans, sukuma have been supplied to women
• Feed our children at school and at home
• Feed elderly and our widows
• Feed the HIV/AIDS members and can now freely maintain proper drug taking like Septrine and ARVs
• Very steady in home visits
• Our people are very happy now and strong because they have something to eat

Challenges

We are ready to grow crops but the rains are very little

Suggestions

If there were funds, relief food feeding would continue because the rains is very little in our areas
The elderly keeping orphans have a big burden

Links:

• Poor rainful brings hunger in E Uganda