Empower AIDS Widows - Save a Community

The River Fund transferred emergency funds to our projects in Eastern Uganda at the end of April. We realized that due to the Covid 19 total lockdown in the country that our very rural project members were hungry and without running water or electricity. We were informed that the banks were open and some motorcycle transport was allowed to purchase food. The following is the report we received this week as to how the funds were distributed. We will need to provide more funds in the near future.

1. Distribution of the money we received. We received shs. 7,000,000/= withdraw 6,000,000/=                                         

 item            cashout.     balance.       

Blandina.   500,000.       5500,000.     

Anna/sexworkers 400,000. 5100,000

Tororo        1,300,000.      3,800,000 

bugiri          1,300,000.    2,500,000   

rwen.          1,300,000.   1,200,000.     

Amoni.     1,100,000.     1,100,000.   

Transport. 100,000.      -----------------.   

2. How many families received food?   

Bugiri 40 families out of 75. 
Tororo 60 families out of 102.         
Rwen 65 families out of 152.           
Amoni 50 families out of 52.             
Total.   215                        371.           

I received the report from the leaders the very very needy received food 10kg posho only. At least 2 members from the group went to pay for food at the food store then the beneficiaries went on their own and signed or ticket by the seller having been given the list by the group leader. We also provided medicine to those who most needed it.

Love Teopy.

WOMEN’S REPORT OF 20^TH 05.2020.

The report comprises of the four groups

Group name                                       Number of women per group

TORORO                                               102

BUGIRI                                                 65

RWEN                                                   151

AMONIKA                                              52

TOTAL                                                 380

 Our activities

Care for elderly widows

Care for the OVC

Care for child headed families

Drama HIV/AIDs (Long term survival skills)

Monitor the well being of the sex workers

Agriculture

Health

Day care centers

Home visits

Tree planting

Poultry

Heifa

Local piggery

Keeping local goats.

Developments

Challenges

Care for the elderly

We give them food

Take care for their health by taking them for treatment especially those with complications.

We always pay for bills in funds are realized. We visit them and we show them love but now we can not visit them due to Covid19

Suzan the one we constructed a semi permanent house is now very happy in her new house.

Care for the OVC and child headed

We make sure children go to school.

Provide them with scholastic materials

Buy food for them to eat at school

Buy uniforms for them

For the child headed families we feed them through out the year.

Drama HIV/AIDS (Long term survival skills.)

Drama group is our sensitization tool in the community on HIV/AIDS. This group has opened up the minds of the positive living people and encouraged self awareness in the surrounding communities

Monitor the well being of sex workers.

Some of the have children without father known to them.

We encourage them to have small scale money generating activities. Take their children to school and care for them.

At this time Covid 19 made life is so hard for them because there is no way they can get customers

Agriculture

Most our members practice agriculture when funds are realized we always buy seeds for them to grow like ground nuts, beans, maize,garlic,tomatoes,onion, sukuma so that they can eat; some contribute food for their children at school and sell some to get some little money to sustain the families

Health

Our woman keep healthy and practice long term survival skills eat balanced diet practicing their agriculture out comes.

This makes them strong and happy, but now Covid 19 has set them off abit no movements out to other places, they practice the rules of Covid 19 to keep it away through following the rules almost always in doors after garden work. A beat of it and using masks we are very scared and worried due to Covid 19.

Day care centers

We have closed them temporally, now children feed from home no converging together. And we make sure that they have enough food. Of recently we have supplied them with food when we received funds from the River Fund through mama Jaya

Home visits

We have been making home visits to our client but now temporally closed.

Tree planting

All women have picked interest in tree planting but Tororo women are best because they got chance to go to Tanzania for training and have captured a lot concerning tree planting.

Poultry

All women practice poultry –local at a small scale but they can get some eggs to eat and sell little. To buy salt, paraffin and other items needed in the family.

Heifa

Tororo group is keeping Heifa given to them through NAADS programme by sub-county through NAADS although hard to take care of them,  Busia had 2 but they all died.

Local piggery

 A few members have maintained local piggery when they produce they sell and get some little money to run home activities.

Keeping local goats

Members find it easy to practice this project because it is easy to manage

Developments

Heifa project is still on

Our women are active

River fund has sent us money to buy food for women and children thank you

Challenges

Covid 19 has become a problem to our communities.

Covid19 has caused hanger and suffering to our people

Suggestions

If possible more food is needed for children and women

Also if possible we need more scholastic material if funds are realized

God bless you

Please fight corona is our prayer

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