Empower AIDS Widows - Save a Community

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