Clean water for Kyotera village
A protected spring and two rainwater tanks, so 300 families stop walking two hours a day for water that makes their children sick.
$6,360 raised of $12,000 goal 53%
Food security · Luwero District, Uganda
Seeds and tools for 40 farming families
Drought-tolerant maize and bean seed, hoes and a training season with an agronomist, so families grow enough to eat and sell.
The story
Two short rainy seasons in a row left many families in Luwero with nothing to plant. Without seed, the next harvest is lost before it starts, and the family eats one meal a day until it can borrow at interest rates that keep it poor.
This appeal gives 40 families a season's worth of drought-tolerant maize and bean seed, two hoes each and three visits from a district agronomist who teaches spacing, mulching and seed saving. Each family keeps part of its harvest as seed for the following season, so the gift carries forward.
Our team selects the families with the village council, prioritizing households headed by women and grandparents caring for orphans. We visit at planting and at harvest and report both.
Use of funds
The goal of $6,000 is planned as follows. Receipts and photos are posted in the updates below as the money is spent.
- Maize and bean seed for 40 families$2,800
- Hoes, watering cans and storage sacks$1,600
- Agronomist visits and training days$1,000
- Transport and distribution$600
Organizer
Institute livelihoods program
International Institute for Social Impact · Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our team organizes every appeal with the community or family it supports.
Updates
- First 20 families in Luwero receive seeds and tools
The first half of the families in the Luwero appeal planted this week, just in time for the rains. The agronomist's first training day covered spacing and mulching; the next one is at weeding time.
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