Education Uganda Project #43536

Grow Food for 100 Homes in Uganda (Wakiso area)

by Lend a Hand Uganda - USA

Grow Food for 100 Homes in Uganda (Wakiso area)

Project Report | Sep 17, 2023
Back To School

By Harriet Zaffoni | CEO

Water Bottle distribution

Summary

During the month of August, 2023, parents prepared gardens for the mid-year season.

2nd Term ended in a bang with enough food delivered to the school throughout the 3 months! We managed to feed the children a healthy lunch byproviding; Cassava, Green bananas, Cabbage, Beans & Sweet potatoes.

Scholol supply was put on hold August 11th, 2023 because the 2nd term ended in mid-August. However, we still continued with lunch program by feeding the children from their homes. This implies that parents are sharing food at the farm to feed the children during the holiday. We are now back to school after 4 weeks of holiday and we are looking forward to a fruitfull 3rd term.

Farm actvities include:

- Weeding in the Old banana plantation

- Weed the cassava garden

- Weed the banana plantation, and applied 5 trips of hamate (manure) in the most affected part of the new banana plantation

- Cleared space where beans will be planted

- Cleared space where maize will be planted

- Planted beans (20 Kgs)

Other activities within the lunch program:

In collaboration with African Empowerment Hub, Mwererwe CoU primary school received a donation of water bottle to all (350) children. This was a massive achievement because we are sure all children will drink safe boiled water preserved by the school. Parents should ensure better maintenance of the bottles including cleaning them every evening once children get back home.

Collaborated with UPDF security system to ensure security of the food / crops at the farm.

Challenges:

The major challenge which is very consistent is lack of adequate labour force to care for the farm as we have now expanded to the full 10 acres. With this expansion we hope to feed 50 more familes once we get some more funding in the future with a master plan of how to increase the labour force for increased productivity.

Clean water bottle 24/7

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May 22, 2023
April 2023 Progress Report

By Enoch Asiimwe | Project Manager

Banana Plantation

The month of April, we continued to monitor, weed and grow more food according to the season.

We had 53 families who were 100% active. The farm has 95% women and the rest are men. Our goal is to increase the total number of men at the firm as that will help fill the gap of where men can do the heavy side of the farming while the women continue to monitor and nature.

Activities for the month of April included but not limited to:

(i) Weeding of 2 acres of beans

(ii) Weeding two banana plantations a total of 4 acres

(iii) Harvesting sweet potatoes which were delivered at the school on throughout the month of April

(iv) Harvesting cassava which also served the school and still continues to be served

(v) Planting cabbage in the Green House.

Other progress

- Good progress of fruit plants- especially Avocado (these were planted as wind breakers due to Global Warming and the changes and they will also be great snacks for the children once the trees start baring fruit.

Below is a sample of how the food was distributed from the farm to the school. Note that the posho is the powder processed from the maize (corn) freshly grown at the farm. This process is a value addition concept and we plan to 1 day own our own processing machine to cut that cost since we have to take the actual corn to a third party for processing into the posho powder.

Date Food Item Quantity in Kgs Duration

4/4/2023 Sweet potatoes 100 One week

4/4/2023 Posho 50 One week

11/4/2023 Sweet potatoes 100 One week

11/4/2023 Cassava 50 One week

18/4/2023 Sweet potatoes 150 One week

18/4/2023 Beans 30 One week

This food supply progress is a great indicator and we hope to keep rising to the occassion.

Cabbage Bed

Sweet Potatoes

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Jan 21, 2023
Farm Food Distributed

By Enoch | Project Manager

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