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Empower AIDS Widows - Save a Community
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Summary
A farming co-op of AIDS widows and orphans in rural Uganda is working toward economic sustainability for 100 women or child-headed families, plus local orphans and disabled people, (1600 people).
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Received £15,027 from 420 donations from people around the world like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In a region devastated by AIDS, widows have joined small plots of land to form an organic farming co-op. With your help, they bought equipment, started training programs, learned solar food processing, opened a sewing business. The work already underway will eventually sustain this community and spur regional development. Right now they need farm animals, school supplies, and tools for children's health. Help these women keep developing their community for a truly sustainable future.
Activities
4 year plan includes skills training, new crops & markets, food processing technology, tailoring business, anumal husbandry.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: £15,027
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £4,619
Total Funding Goal: £19,646
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The goal is to move from subsistence farming to income-generating projects. The project will affect the larger community by improved nutrition, better health, HIV/AIDS education, sustainable agriculture and greater employment.
Project Message
We can create an environment for survival, growth, development & education of vulnerable children and households at grass roots level. We can join hands and support the most vulnerable ones.
- Joseph Onyango, Executive Director
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on December 09, 2011.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 02, 2005.
Latest Update from the Field
RARUDO quarterly Report of November 2011.
By Onyango Joseph - Executive DirectorRARUDO, November 15, 2011 10:38 AM
 Goat raising project. On behalf of the board and community members, I am pleased to share with you RARUDO quarterly Report of November 2011.
We hope you will take a few minutes to read about our progress over the past months, and about the women, children and men we work for every day.
Thanks to your incredible generosity and contribution from our dear donors. Your support raised through this year is already at work changing lives of our people. With your donations, our people from Tororo, Busia, and Bugiri were ble get some improved seeds and foods that at least made them go through the long experienced harvesting period without much starving. This support was timely in that helped improve the nutrition for especially our people living positive with HIV/AIDS.
At last now there is enough rain, people everywhere are very busy with garden work, and this brings hope that there will be enough food in this second rain season, they will have enough to eat and some for income. Our orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) received schooling materials and uniforms and going to school is just the start of their journey to a better life. By getting an education these OVCs and girl - child can find good jobs and lift themselves, their families and their communities out of grinding poverty.
To discover more, our women are making great achievement as in economic empowerment through their agriculture development, goat’s project integrated with piggery is gradually transforming their lives economically. In the entire three district ladies are greatly struggling to change the society by spending much time gardening and ensure there is enough food in the house and a surplus for micro-income earning for sustainability. Tailoring and craft making is another inspiring project in which has helped 40 women get a vital knowledge in generating a side income and will be helping over 100 women over the coming 2 years.
Thank you for standing with us as we continue to work toward improving the Lives of women and children and families everywhere, and preserving the environment that sustains us all. I want to extend my sincere regards to all friends in the US, UK and everyone who have and are making this work possible.
May God bless you.
Warm Regards
Onyango Joseph
Executive Director
RARUDO  Exercise book distribution to orphans  Piggery project  RARUDO group vegetable garden
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