By Francis Oyat Otoo | Project Team Leader
NAME OF IMPLEMENTING ORGANISATION: FAMILY HARVEST FOUNDATION
PROJECT TITLE: LEARN TO EARN! TRADES TRAINING IN GULU, UGANDA
PERIOD OF REPORT: JUL - AUG 2022
NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS OF PROJECT LEADERS:
1. FRANCIS OYAT OTOO; email: familyharvestfoundation@gmail.com 2. ANNE MCKEE email: anne.bt.mc@icloud.com
DATE OF SUBMISSION: 2022/09/07
Part 1: GENERAL INFORMATION
Summary:
We have progressed well with the vocational school and socail project activities during the month of July and August 2022. Overall 23 youth are progressing well with studies in the different trades.
The statistics: Tailoring 09 all female; hairdressing 04 female; Construction 05 male and motorcycle mechanic 05 male.
During the period of reporting two of our monthly donors made donations for a total of USD127.54. No dsibursement have been made in the past two month of July and August 2022. We have made expeditures to exhust the funds meant for the microproject funding the tailoring tutors allowances and for this project USD80.2 were spent for project activities.
Part 2: OTHER INFORMATION
2.1: Participation
a. We expect to enroll 60 youth in term three 2022 as 23 youth already continue to study while the lot 2 from CARE international is still unknown due to their selection criteria. Our forth and fith Microproject were retired though the donations are supporting this project to continue. The Monitoring team from The Movement for Community Led-Development(MCLD) to our school is yet to earn more support for youth from this disadvantaged region with a poverty index of 68% compared to other regions in Uganda. A meeting with the USAID team may equally create another profitable partnership.
2.3: Gender Equity
a. Gender issues remain at the forefront in every aspect of our project and shall remain at 60:40. We also apply the international code of conduct on Child abuse, women's rights, gender equality among others.
2.4: Child Centeredness and Rights Based Approaches:
a. The approach on children and right based is paramount as we apply both the GlobalGiving (GGF), The Movement for Community Led-Development (MCLD) and other international agencies to continually upgade.
2.5: Challenges, Lessons Learnt and dissemination:
a. With additional brand new knowledge on Network Weaver, Invisible Hope Uganda is among the newest.
b. We maintain our continues learning from GlobalGiving Foundation resourceful information hub
c. Nine trainees have continued to enjoy the sponsorship accorded to them with the support from the Mcro project that paid for the tutors allowances.
2.6: Emerging Advocacy Issues:
a. We are a liberal organisation and are free to join at will any advocacy issues. We are participating in the advocacy to reduce stunting by advocating for food, nutrition and WASH practices in Nwoya district in the Right2Grow project of the Movement for COmmunity Led-Development.
2.7: Organizational Changes:
a. This ’’Learn to Earn! Trades training in Gulu, Uganda project’’ continues to shine among the youth in the project site and will continue to be. We shall build on new Microproject in 2023.
b. The Board of Trustees have remained the same, while a new person was enlisted to the Board of Directors, new Principal Tutor recruited, 1 new staff recruited and management structures continued as normal. The Board of Trustees and Board of Directors meeting were held and resolution made.
c. Our website hosting and subscription plan remains active as we are able to pay for it timely with support from The Hunger Project Uganda/Movement for Community Led-Development.
d. Facebook and twitter publicity became active with a foreign supporter due to GGF name on FHF and we contnue to be notice on facebook and twitter as well.
e. Staffs allowances were paid up to date that is end of August 2022 and the same will be for September 2022.
f. We have reserved the name of our organisation with the Uganda Registration Services Buarue of Uganda to be registered with the Uganda National Non- Governmental Organisation Board in the name of REELMA Family Harvest Foundation Limited being a company registered by gurantee. But no certificate have yet been issued.
2.8: Other Comments: Objective partnership with GGF, CARE International, Tools with a Mission (TWAM) and The Hunger Project /The Movement for Community Led-Development is making FHF be noticed among the global community. Other CBOs like Invisible Hope Uganda, Youth Development Organisation and NGOs like RENA, Children Care Uganda and Rotary International are making FHF appear on the global map.
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