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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In a region devastated by AIDS, these rural widows have joined their small plots of land to form an organic farming co-op. They need equipment and training to pull themselves and their children out of poverty. The equipment will immediately improve life for 100 families. In the long term, it will support sustainable agriculture and contribute to regional development by making it possible to grow a surplus for sale. Later phases of the project include a food-packaging plant.
Activities
Purchase/maintain truck/ tractor in 4 year plan that includes skills training, new crops, food processing, marketing. Increasing efficiency & opening markets. Build vocational training center: tailoring, auto mechanics, carpentry, animal husbandry.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $5,805
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $29,195
Total Funding Goal: $35,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The goal is to move from subsistence farming to income-generating products like vegetable oil, jam, juice, and dried fruit. The project will affect the larger community by improved nutrition, sustainable agriculture and greater employment.
Project Message
The project will create great impact to the community and give the opportunity to smallholder farmers/peasants to improve their income. Their livelihoods will be boosted and poverty will be alleviated
- Joseph Onyango, Executive Director
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on December 17, 2007.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 02, 2005.
Latest Update from the Field
RARUDO
By Jaya Canterbury-Counts - Executive Director, The River Fund, December 17, 2007 06:09 PM
The women of this impoverished area have now trained hundreds of other women in HIV long term surival skills ... inlcuding prevention, health and nutrition, the use of local indigenous foods and herbs, women's empowerment and given hope to so many. They have incorporated the disabled group into RARUDO. But they need so much more help to continue.
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Empower AIDS Widows in Uganda--Buy Them a Tractor
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