Help180 orphaned households access income & food

Summary of project activities

We appreciate all donors and other partners for the support of the project. GlobalGiving team who have enabled the organization to receive support to manage the project and effectively implement the quarter’s activities. The report details implemented activities in the month of February to May, 2018. It is compiled and disseminated to all our stakeholders, partners and funders to enable them get better understand and know the progress of the project they are funding.

Current status of Support 320 orphans with goats project
KADO is providing trainings, breading, and dissemination of the goats to another line of selected OVCs and their households in goat’s management. We have sampled a few of the Orphans and vulnerable children to be given goats from the former set of beneficiaries. However, the rate of breeding is low because of limited breeder He-goats and this has made the project to realize limited impact. Some of our OVCs in schools study without uniform, school meals and at times lack scholastic materials due to limited household income of the caregivers and lack Income generating activities that we are trying to gap.

In the quarter February to May, 2018, the organization managed to execute the following;

1. Trained 30 orphans with the assistance of the trained Parish Based Volunteers in Goats Rearing and Management in Kibuku district
2. Secured from the previous beneficiaries and distributed 4 goats to 4 orphans in Kibuku district.
3. Did (four) 2 Quality Assurance visits, Monitoring and Evaluation visits.

Challenges

1. The overwhelming number of the orphans and vulnerable children in Kibuku and Budaka districts of Uganda
2. High cost of improved breeder goats: The organization relies majorly on donor funding and each donor has priority areas for their funds.
3. Low project cash flow.
   We have got limited donors funding the project and the communities where the project is located, most of the people are subsistence farmers with low income to make community contribution.

Recommendation

We kindly request all well-wishers to be part of us and have a helping hand to this project for the social economic welfare of the OVCs in Kibuku and Budaka districts

Werecommend that we set up a permanent home for this children so that they can be properly looked after and monitored.

Testimony from one beneficiary
This testimony is from Peter who is an orphan without both parents. Peter hails from Bulangira Sub County in Kibuku district, Eastern Uganda. Peter is a 12-year-old boy in primary seen. Peter received books, a set, pens, and a new uniform in addition to a she goat from the organization in March 2018. Peter tells our project staff that, ‘I had no hope of studying after the loss of my parents. I am going to study since KADO takes care of my educational needs, they contribute to my school fees, buy for me scholastic materials among others’. The story explains the work of KADO in relation to our project of support 320 OVCs with improved goats in Uganda.