Retain Orphan Girl Children in Schools in Uganda

Summary

Retention of orphan girl children project in Budaka and Kibuku districts in Eastern Uganda aims at empowering 49 widows in commercial vegetable growing to improve their family’s nutrition and income to pay school meals and scholastic materials for 1200 school going orphan girl children between 12-18years. The 49 widows is being empowered with modern knowledge and skills in vegetable growing and provided vegetable seeds, pesticides and spry pumps as a state up for the project. This is the August-October, 2016 project report to partners and it is located on Globalgiving website and our website www.kagumudevelopment.org . The report clearly comprises of the progress of the project for the quarter with financial support from all stakeholders.

 

Current status

The following was done in the last quarter:

1. Currently the project provide support to 18 widows and 39 orphan girl children are supported in schools
2. 6 widows have gained experience and initiating less labour intensive agronomic practices e.g. kitchen gardening using organic manure to ensure that they obtain regular harvest and sales
3. 7 widows have joined village saving and loaning associations (VSLA) and have opens up the kiosk in the trading center buying and selling from others.

                                        

Challenges

1. The organization is faced with limited funding to support widows to undergo commercial vegetables production in order to maximize production and sustain the buyers demand
2. Some widows lack land and therefore, the organization hire land for them and they practice collective production.

Recommendation
The organization requests all development partners to extend their giving hand to the project to facilitate the implementation of this project in order to improve the social- economic empower of widow led households as this is the only viable project in terms of providing quick returns. Currently, in Uganda there is no specific programme to support widows yet thy have a big Baden of the OVCs

 Testimony from the beneficiary

This is testimony from Margret the wife of late Muswa of of Kagumu Sub County in Kibuku district who died motor accident and left Magret with 2 orphan girl children. Late Muswa was also HIV/AIDS positive. Muswa was a very hard working man and could support his family effectively. However, he didn’t empower Margret to engage in economic activities.

After the death of       Muswa Magret had nothing to as a source of income to support the family and had started selling the land to secure incomes to solve domestic needs like procurement of essential commodities and payment of medical bills for the family members.

The organization identified Margret, empowered her in vegetable growing using her land and she is able to grow variety of vegetables, sells and access some income to support her family. She is among the women who have joined village saving and loaning association.

This is a true story and explains how our project works in respect to support of orphan girl children in Uganda.

Links:

• www.kagumudevelopment.org