Uplifting Ugandan Out of School Youth Though IGA's

It was such an exciting moment to Kitovu Mobile AIDS organization and to the out of school youth to host two global giving members of staff. During this visit the Kitovu Mobile Management team lead by Charles Matovu  had a brief and  informative meeting where Britt lake and Alexandra discussed with members the available opportunity at global Giving website and the possibilities of kitovu Mobile making use of them. Through the sharing session, Global giving staff were overwhelmed by the enormous amount of work done by kitovu Mobile team to support the people infected and affected by HIV and AIDS in a holistic manner.

After the meeting, the team visted one of the project sites where they met youth living with HIV who had been facilitated with small projects ranging from keeping local chicken to piggery projects. The youth ably explained how they are benefiting from the projects and their commitment to scale up the size of projects.

It was observed that youth didn't have approprite structures to keep their animals and birds and as a result they were finding problems to do thorough cleaning of the structuers and to maintain high standards of hygiene.

It was noted that poor housing structure did not only hinder the youth to ensure high standard of hygiene but also, it was not possible to trap manure and urine to fertlise their gardens which would help them to get high yields.

In consideration of the above mentioned challenges, in the next fundraisng campaign we have aimed at mobilising resources  to support the construction of good animal structures that can trap manure and urine.

We therefore, call upon all wellwishers and friends of Kitovu Mobile to support this noble cause.

We  have budgeted a piggery unit to cost $ 160 . However there is no need to worry about this big amount of money. we believe that together we can cause a change if every one contributes something.

15 dollars  buy 1 bag(50kgs) of cement

20 dollars buy 1 turpline for roofing

2 dollors   buy 1kg of Nails

2 dollors   buy 1 pole 

15 dollors buy 1 trip of sand

40 dollars pay for labour for constructing.

I conclude by this phrase " if you want to see a change you must be part of it".

Iam excited to inform you that the project is going on well. The community facilitators are giving support supervision to out of school children/youth. 90% of the project beneficiaries are so excited to see such a progress within this short period of time. Unfortunately 10%  of the project  beneficiaries had their  projects affected by swine fever. However, kitovu Mobile is working hard with the veterinary officers to combat the situation.  It is interesting to hear  that  out of school children/youth have higher  hopes in their  projects.

CASE STUDY

I am Nassuuna Shadia 18 years of age. I left school due to the death of my father. I am so grateful for Kitovu mobile and Mallory Brown for giving me the two hens. I hope these two hens will help me attain my goal of being a hair dresser. As I talk now the the two hens have multiplied into 12 hens/chicks. I think this year if all goes well; I will be able to get money from them to start running hair dressing.

My name is Nakasita Harriet aged 12 years. M y father died of AIDS and left 7 children and am the second born, into the care of my mother. She sells jack fruit in the market so as to cater for some of our basic needs. Unfortunately, she failed to raise our school fees. I hope the piglet I got will help me to supplement on our basic needs. Still this pig will help in eradicating excessive poverty at home. If all goes well i will get money to faciltate me in the tailoring course i want to persue. Thank you Kitovu mobile, thank you Mallory Brown.