Short description

We want to fight hunger by providing technical skills and farming skills such as crop cultivation to nomadic pastoralists. This will help boost their economy and allow them to store some food during the dry season.

The problem we aim to solve

Our goal is to protect children from being used as a source of income by their parents and from having to live in ghettos in order to save their hard-earned money. We want to achieve this by providing financial skills to parents.

Children are often used as an additional source of income. They work during the day and are asked by their parents to give them their hard-earned money. Since they are afraid of losing their money to their parents, some build thatched huts where they sleep. These are known as “Ghettos” by natives and often become a home for thieves, robbers, rapists and defilers.

Our solution

My idea is community empowerment for hunger alleviation and poverty eradication. This can be done by providing handcraft skills such as basket making, book binding, hairdressing, brick bouquet and bakery. This empowers women to make their own decisions regarding reproduction. Women can also work in order to provide for the family thus sharing responsibilities in the home which prevents children from running away from home to the “ghetto”.

Another solution is promoting a culture of saving money among the people of kakongye muruti nyakatonzi katwe town council kasese district. This is done in every meeting. In small groups members meet once in a week and save a given amount of money which at the end of the year they share in accordance with one’s contributions. This helps prevent financial constraints and saves how much pastoralists can sustain during dry season.

Social protection which entails awareness for children’s rights. This is done mainly by parents accepting their responsibilities and providing for their children. Children should also be made aware of their parents’ responsibilities as well as their own as children.