In promotion of community health and nutrition, volunteers work along with different groups of people to help maintain gardens as well as sharing great farming ideas for better yields so as to improve on community nutrition. Farming and environment programs is designs for income generation, community nutrition, efficient land use for food security for the locals.

Upon arrival to our local guest house where the village you are placed to, volunteers are given basic training about farming in Uganda and appropriate tools to get ready for the garden. You are asked to have a hat and gumboots when in the gardens

Volunteers in farming and environment conservation, work a long side with locals and our village action team members in the combination of activities such as:

  • Weeding  gardens,
  • Planting vegetable community demonstration centres
  • Land clearing
  • Participating planting trees with the locals
  • Evolving in energy saving stove
  • Making compost manure
  • Learn how to make natural pest controls
  • Harvesting
  • School’s fruits and vegetable demonstration centres

Volunteers participation in the above programs creates a deeper cultural understand and also to strengthen partnership with the locals.

ENVIRONMENT ACTIVITIES

Volunteers participate in number of environment community programs in both trainings and practical work with the locals. Community training and practical include:

  1. Training in basic forest management and tree nursery establishment
  2. Production and dissemination of Information Education and Communication materials on conservation and management of natural resources.
  3. Establishing wood lots for production of fuel wood and timber for schools and surrounding communities
  4. Exposure visit to the National Forest Resources Research Institute
  5. Construction of improved fuel saving stoves for schools
  6. Training selected community members to construct improved stoves with local materials

All these activities are intended to help achieve the following

  1. Reduced indoor pollution and incidence of related diseases.
    1. Reduction in water pollution and degradation
  • Increased awareness of the effects of indoor pollution and how to mitigate the effects
    • Reduced carbon emission from kerosene lamps
    • Reduced deforestation due to established wood lots, reduction on energy needs due to efficient utilization of existing fuel wood.

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