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WOMEN REPORT OF JANUARY 31^ST 2019,

The report covers four groups

Rwen                           134

Tororo                           96

Bugiri                            65

Amonikakinei               52

Our Activities

Care for OVC / Child headed families

Agriculture

Care for the elderly women

Drama / HIV/AIDS group

Tree planting

Crafts making

Hair dressing

Health

Day care centres

Home visits

Poultry

Heifer

Hoes for ploughing using bulls

piggery

Rearing of local goats

Referrals

Scholastic materials

Uniform

Developments

Challenges

Care for OVC / child headed families.

We are making sure that all the school age going go to school from lower levels to high levels. We also monitor their performance when the school term closes.

Child headed families.

There is great care taken on this group of children. We provide them food both at school and at home.

Every group has to see to it that children of these families who are positive of HIV/AIDs go for their drugs and get them in time.

Agriculture.  

All the four groups’ members practice agriculture. The members grow crops like maize, cassava, beans, rice, g. nuts, garlic and green vegetables.

HIV/AIDs and long term survival skills. The long term survival skills have made HIV/AIDS positive members to be very active and have a sense of creativity. For survival according to their health.

These women have over come stress and  have developed a sense of self awareness through the counseling they go through because the groups have trained counselors in long term survival skills by the great late Lindy may her soul rest in the eternal peace.

Care for the elderly women.

We take care of them and each of the four groups’ members has to make sure they get food and maintain their health like our Blandina who is sickly, we have never given up but we love her and see to it that she gets the necessary treatment. Whenever we get funds from our donors through River Fund are received we save for her for her treatment.

Drama / HIV / AIDs group.

This group is a very instrumental tool. It helps us to sensitize the communities question HIV/AIDs through music dance and drum. We use it in centres as they sing, dance and do drama people are counseled as they listen, They overcome stress and self-stigma. Many people in our community developed self-awareness, they freely go for pre and after testing in HIV/AIDs. The group is very active.

Tree planting

All our women practice tree planting and in every home of a member there are growing trees. Theses trees are for sell, timber, charcoal and Tororo group has high growing of tree and even went to Tanzania for training for the same by NEMA.

Hair dressing

Our women have started training in hair dressing and have made small saloons and some train their friends. They get some little money to sustain themselves as a way of life.

Health

We make sure our women, children and the community around keep healthy through balanced diet and quick treatment in short comings.

Day care centre

Some of our groups have formed day care centre, take care of children, provide break porridge and lunch for  children and the elderly women mostly done by Rwen group.

Home visit

We visit our child headed family and listen to their needs and counsel them, Those on ARVS we check on whether they take their drugs promptly. We also visit old women, take food, give comfort talks to avoid worries.

Local poultry

Almost every body keeps local poultry for eggs and chicken meat they also sell eggs and if there are cocks, they sell them.

Heifer

Some of our members got Heifer from NAADs but very hard to take care of them this is Rwen group but not yet ready for milk.

Piggery

We started with piggery but it is not well practiced because they die very quickly. Most members fear keeping them.

Bulls and ploughs for ploughing

Our group in Tororo got a chance for this project. Ten women were selected each got one bull and two got a plough so they join two bulls and one hoe to plough their gardens. This project was initiated by new vision news programe.

Referrals

We have continued to refer our youths to PEFO for tailoring, computer and hair dressing and these are girls from Rwen group.

Scholastic materials

 We have continued to provide scholastic materials to our children. This help them to go to school in time and well equipped whenever we receive funds  through River Fund.

Uniforms

Uniforms are provided at every beginning of the year. Right now we are looking forward to providing scholastic materials and uniforms schools are opening on 04 -02-2019.

Developments

Our children’s performance has improved. Our children’s food is already in place since we bought it in time.

We have been boosted with new projects besides what we had but at a small scale.

HIV / AID, some our positive members’ treatment has been simplified to one tablet a day and with time they others will come to the same. They are very happy.

Challenges

Agriculture. The yield for the second, season has been very poor. Very little food and poor yield of the crops. There has been a long drought and we expect famine for our people.

Suggestions

We suggest that if possible food be bought for our groups to, be on a safe side for security of life this is posho and beans to avoid hunger in the nearest future.

God bless you.

Compiled by:

TEOPISTA