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Resource Center for farmers in Nkokonjeru, Uganda

Summary

Working with an indigenous NGO, we are creating a vocational and demonstrational resource center to promote best practices to residents of Nkokonjeru Uganda and farmers in the Mukono District.


How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $0 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Most of the problems (sanitation, health, and economy) in the region of Nkokonjeru, Uganda, the Rural Agency for Sustainable Development have identified result from lack of education. They have had success with doing seminars on best practices in sanitation, but would like to improve their effectiveness and expand their resources, by creating a central resource center that has informational resources as well as tools and demonstration plots to promote hands on learning and vocational training.

Activities

First we will provide funds to finish the creation of the resource center infrastructure, followed by the furnishing of the center with training books and tools for carpentry, mechanic, and sewing training, and agricultural demonstration plots.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $0

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $0.  The original project funding goal was $25,000.

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

This center will provide training for the 500 subsistence farmers in Nkokonjeru, but has potential to influence 12,000 people in the Mukono district through seminars. Training will improve incomes and increase sanitation.

Project Message

Our biggest problem is ignorance. Once people are sensitized to these issues and once they know how they can help themselves and help their neighbor, they will.
- Ignatius Bwoogi, Director Rural Agency for Sustainable Development

Who is Running This Project

Contact

William Patrick,
Co-Director of RASD project
Duke University
Box 92476
Durham, NC 27708
United States
919-622-5123
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

Duke Engineers Without Borders
Box 90287
Hudson Hall
Durham, NC 27708-0287
United States
(919) 660-5174
http://ewb.pratt.duke.edu

Learn more about Duke Engineers Without Borders and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

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

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 March 01, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 27, 2007.

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