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Farms for the Future (Uganda)

GO teaches local farmers to raise healthy livestock

Activist Celine Coustaeu and GO director Jenny O’Connor address the community and share inspiration and ideas

Activist and film-maker visits GO’s farm and takes a swing!

The community gathers for a local farm training with GO staff

GO’s Uganda partner Peter Luswata cuts a fresh pineapple

The grain mill construction team poses in front of their work.

GO Director Bart Skorupa fails miserably on Goat Distribution Day.

GO volunteers taste the best pineapple on the planet.

Over 50 goats are given out to the community every year as live-stock micro loans.

When you extend your hand, you make connections that last a life-time.

GO Director Jenny O’Connor and Celine Cousteau pose with Fred the farm manager at the farm.

GO Director Jenny O’Connor and Celine Cousteau pose with the demo farm family.

GO co-founder Kyle Miller over-looks the vast impact of the Uganda demonstrative farm.

Together, we provide women’s training sessions on how to harvest a sustainable source of food.

The new grain mill will help 450 farmers every day mill their crop at a sustainable cost.

Volunteer labor helps build GO’s first grain mill at the farm.

The methods and the means for a sustainable tomorrow.

The farm provides farmers with seeds and lessons on sustainable rural farming practices.

The children celebrate a day of drawing Thank You card for GO donors.

Summary
This project provides financial support and vocational training for rural cooperative farmers in Uganda. Local farmers who attend information sessions and assist with the community farm will be given their own seeds and tools, participate in raising and breeding livestock, milling grain, and educating children on farming methods.

More Information About this Project
needs and beneficiaries
With a growing number of rural poor relying on subsistence agriculture in Uganda, this project will look to using traditional farming methods and techniques as a remedy to poverty. Specifically, this project will organize farming communities into cooperatives and encourage traditional farming methods and techniques with regard to planting, harvesting, animal husbandry, grain milling, and marketing successful crop yields. Farmers in the community will undergo training sessions on subjects ranging from genetically modified seeds to harvesting in drought seasons to organic farming, and will contribute their skills to a large communally owned local farm. Once they have demonstrated their skill and initiative by working on the large farm, they will be granted packs of seeds to begin cultivating individual farms on their own property. Preference will be given to those farmers who are living in extreme poverty and who have shown dedication and support in farming activities within their community. Farmers will also conduct training sessions for local students on weekends to introduce the merits of farming and prevent children from moving into the slums or ignoring familial obligations. This project is fully self-sustainable, with farmers providing seeds to each other, using composted crop as animal food, as well as collecting and harvesting rainwater and spring water. By incorporating modern education and training techniques with traditional farming methods, this project will seek to bring Uganda's poorest class of rural subsistence farmer our of poverty and into a better life.
country and focus
This project is located in Uganda. The main focus of this project is on improving Agriculture. For more information about Uganda, read the Wikipedia entry for Uganda.

Who is Running this Project
GO PROJECT MANAGER	LOCAL CONTACT
Kyle Miller Creative Director Groundwork Opportunities (GO) 1402 Campus Drive Berkeley, CA 94708 e: kyle@goworks.org t: w: http://www.goworks.org	Peter Luswata Director Uganda Rural Community Support Foundation (URCSF) P.O. Box 2273 Kampala, Uganda e: t: +256 772 976997 w: http://www.ugandarural.org/

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