By Ben Aplin | Director, Foundation Relations
This reporting period was filled with activities. It started on a very high note with The Hunger Project-Uganda (THP-Uganda) hosting the President of the Republic of Uganda, His Excellence Yoweri K Museveni at Mpigi Epicenter. The function brought together epicenter leaders from across all epicenters who exhibited a variety of products ranging from nutrition, food stuffs, agricultural outputs, handicrafts, and water sanitation and environment information. In addition to the formal proceedings, the President visited three animator projects: a bakery, a family with integrated projects (poultry, animal husbandry and crops) as a well as a group ginger garden.
In his address to the mammoth gathering at the epicenter (over 5,000 people), the President commended THP for its great effort towards transforming rural communities using its Epicenter Strategy. The President reiterated his government’s willingness to commit $200,000 to THP-Uganda in addition to $10 million towards the implementation of the Epicenter Strategy in Uganda. He also pledged to extend electricity to the epicenter to assist in food processing, in addition to a truck for the Epicenter Committee to transport food.
In addition, the Epicenter Strategy was formally integrated into the National Development Plan (NDP) and has now been formally approved by the cabinet. Not only does this present a very positive picture of the confidence, trust and mutual partnership with government, but it promises financial sustainability for THP-Uganda’s work in Uganda. We are now working on the details of the agreement.
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