Providing land and housing to 100 women in Uganda

Summary

This project provides 100 divorced women with land and housing. The women will speak out on the need to provide land and housing to divorced women in a country where family property belongs to men. progress report read updates from the field

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	£6 - Provides 2 mosquito nets to a family
	£126 - Purchases 1 acre of land for a family
	£316 - Develops a protected spring to provide clean water to 10 families
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

This project adresses the issue of homelessness among divorced women in Uganda. The current practice on customary land, which makes up 65% of land in Uganda, is that the man controls family property. In the past the clan structure ensured that a woman was not sent off land except when she committed a crime like murder or witchcraft. With the weakening of the clan structure, many women are being rendered homeless. This project will provide a home to divorced women and impact practices on land.

Activities

For each of 100 select divorced women provide: 1. House and garden 2. 2 malaria nets per family 3. 20 computers to be shared by all women 4. 10 protected springs to be shared by all women

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £4,252
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £51,453
Total Funding Goal: £55,705

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

1. 100 women and 600 children will be assured of a home and a livelihood 2. The project will make visible the plight of women in the transition from communal to private land ownership 3. 10,000 families will see the need to let women own family lan

Project Message

Sent off 30 acres of land by an uncle after the death of her father, when she received one acre of project land went frantic crying "You women, You women. How can a person give another land?"
- Regina Wamala, beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Lydia Bakaki,

Plot 198
Old Kira Road, Ntinda
Kampala, Kampala P.O. Box 27991 Kampala
Uganda
25641286539
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Project Sponsor

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Organisation

Asante na Zawadi/Uganda Women's network
Kayunga
Kampala, N/A P.O Box 1411 K'la
Uganda

Learn more about Asante na Zawadi/Uganda Women's network and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Uganda and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about Uganda, read the Human Development Report on Uganda or the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 01, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 20, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Narrative Report October 2011-TRANSITION

By Lydia Bakaki - Interim Chairperson, November 17, 2011 12:29 PM

Narrative Report October 2011

This is a great period in the life of our project. The women beneficiaries will manage the project with effect from January 2012. This will entail them choosing a committee and a Director from among themselves. Next report will be developed by the new Director.

Last period we reported that we had put up a partial house. We have not completed it but will do so soon. We are focusing on transfering the land into the women's representatives' names. The representatives wil be agreed upon by the women. After giving the women their land, we shall move to an advisory role supporting the women to manage and to plan the work and gradually disappear to let the women take charge of their own lives.

Some of the changes will be small while others will be deeply felt. The machines acquired and kept in the Director's house will now move to the Peace Center. Two women will sleep in the house. The office will be in that very house. The women will be agreed upon at the next meeting. Some women have already requested to be the ones to stay in the common house.

One continuing challenge is that our country continues to be severely hit by inflation thereby affecting the price of construction materials. We are also being faced with the effects of the recession in developed countries. We shall be updating you on the future of the project as it unfolds.

We appreciate your generous gifts.

Lydia Bakaki

Interim Chairperson.

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