GlobalGiving Project of the Month Club

This February, you’re giving life back to degraded soil in Uganda, helping restore balance and abundance for both the earth and the kitchens of refugees. 

This month’s featured project is led by the Youth Initiative for Community Engagement (YICE) and focuses on empowering refugees in the Nakivale refugee settlement. One of those people is Zawidi, a mother who once depended on food rations from the World Food Programme after being forcibly displaced from her home in the DRC. Until recently, she received just one meal a day—beans and posho.

With limited resources and no prior interest in farming, Zawidi struggled to support her family. But through YICE’s project, she’s now learning sustainable farming techniques, regaining her independence, and growing nourishing food for her children. Zawididi shared that her family now enjoys more nutritious food, and she’s even started selling some of her surplus produce. With seven chickens and eggs expected to begin this February, Zawidi’s future is looking brighter thanks to this incredible community project—and donors like you who make it all possible. 

YICE is on a mission to help 200 refugee women become food secure through this same project—and your support will help feed that work and their kitchens as they navigate this difficult terrain. 

When we shared the exciting news with YICE, they said it came as a huge relief. The organization has been working hard to raise funds to expand its tested regenerative farming activities—and this grant will help enormously with that.

“With the funding, we shall enroll 200 refugee women onto the regenerative farming program and train them on growing organic food using permaculture principles,” shared Noah Ssempijja, Co-Founder of YICE. “Each participant will be provided with 3 fruit trees for planting in their household, 2 local chickens for eggs, and trained on climate change adaptation. As a result, the project will improve their food security, incomes, and climate resilience. Over 700 indirect beneficiaries, mostly children, will benefit from increased food security.”

In addition to regenerative farming training (check out their awesome video on the social benefits of permaculture), YICE also offers climate change awareness education, organic fertilizer production, and water harvesting for the community. 

Thank you for making this exciting and transformative work a reality. We and our partners could not be more appreciative of your ongoing support of this fund. 

Until next time, 

Victoria Vrana

GlobalGiving CEO