By Teopista Bwire | Chairperson
OCTOBER 2018 REPORT AS OF 30TH October 2018
Group No. of Members
RWEN 134
Tororo 96
Bugiri 65
Amonikakinei 52
Working Activities
Care for the elderly women.
We have continuous care for those old women. One of them died last week (one Achieno) who got a serious stroke due to blood pressure/or hypertension and sadly we lost her. Another member of the Bugiri group is also down; she has a wound on her lungs and has a problem of hypertension. One of her legs is swollen from thigh to toes. Her life is generally bad. We do take them for check up and they access treatment and also ensure they get food. Another Blandina has become weak and so is Suzan who is sick.
HIV/AIDS-long term survival skills
For HIV/AIDS, positive children always get counseling and each positive child has his/her own counselor. We make sure they get drugs in time since each one has a counselor.
It is the long term survival skills we trained from 2006-2008 that help us to help our HIV/AIDS women and children. These skills have kept us alive and strong and we have managed to make HIV/AIDS women know what they are and hence there’s no more stress.
Care for OVC / child headed families
We have made it a rule that every school age child goes to school. we provide meals, beans and posho. We are now busy looking for maize and beans for we are stocking for term I of 2019.
We are also preparing for next year and immediately we realize funds to buy them uniform. We provide for them food to feed on at home after school.
Drama
We have drama group composed of our positive women/men who sensitizes the community and it is one interested in music and drama to narrate the stories of HIV/AIDS.
Tree planting
This activity is a source of little income, cooking and shade, women have liked and like this activity for fire wood is got from it.
Hair dressing
Most youths trying to make their source of income and have made small salon places at the trading centres
Agriculture
All the four groups practice agriculture; we are in the second season of the year. There has been a drought after planting maize, beans, sweet/Irish potatoes, cassava, ground/nuts, green vegetables and others.
The season is not good for it has just started raining since August and the crops are not doing well. We expect a poor yield during harvest this season.
Crafts making
Bugiri group is out standing in making mats as other groups follow.
Health care
The women look healthy. The practice table of health through hand skills and their families too are healthy.
Day care centres
These take care of the children and the elderly women and positive HIV/AIDS persons who are weak. Children and elderly women feed on break porridge, posho and beans.
Home visits
It is an activity in the four groups, we visit child headed families, HIV/AIDS families and elderly women. We counsel and guide them.
Poultry
All members practice local poultry on a low scale and they take care of their birds and they get eggs to eat and sometimes to sell.
Heifer
NUSAFU has provided some members with heifer. It is a task to the beneficence. Heifers keep them so busy and they like the exercise as they expect milk in the nearest future if the heifer survives.
Rearing of local goats
Most women do the activity at a very low scale of one to four goats only.
Piggery
A few women practice piggery but they keep on dying reducing the number. The number however is increasing and we are happy about the increase.
Referrals
We have continued referring our youths to PEFO that is near RWEN. PEFO does tailoring and hair dressing because it has materials for them and hence they carry the knowledge to the groups they belong.
Scholastic materials and uniforms
These are provided at the beginning of the year and we are looking forward to providing these items in January 2019.
Meals
We feed our children as a duty of the mothers at school and when they come back home. We provide meals for child headed families and make sure as group members that it is a must.
Challenges
This season we are likely to have a poor yield due to drought of August to October and it is a big problem.
One of our members, an elderly passed on
Members may fail because they not capable of the project because it was abrupt without training.
Developments
Heifer project was given to some of our members
Suggestion
If possible, we should give more septrine because it isn’t at the centres.
Need for transport for some very weak members of HIV/AIDS positive members. Sometimes home visits fail due to lack of transport to faraway places.
God bless you all our friends in our line of needs.
Thank you very much.
Compiled by;
TEOPISTA
CHAIRPERSON RWEN
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