The Covid-19 epidemic has caused financial and educational difficulties around the world. In addition to these, Gombe and other areas of Uganda are also battling drought and insect infestations of their crops after hours of preparing soils, planting and carrying water to the fields. Promise, with your help, provided a water tank for use in the community of Gombe. This was set at the top of the hill to help use natural gravity to water some of the fields using irrigation tubing.
As a result of Covid-19 and the famine in the villages and suburbs of Kampala, Promise made the decision to set up a mobile community project known as Inspire.
Inspire aims to work with families in their communities to teach them planting and how to care for their gardens in order to eat healthy fruit and vegetables all year round. Due to the food shortages and insecurities, the team will put kitchen gardening at the forefront, specifically helping families to grow nutritious plants for instance greens, onions, tomatoes etc. It offers the learning opportunities to all age groups and has began working in Gombe, Wakiso.
Farming is widely considered to be an unskilled menial job by the people of Uganda but has seen
some recent developments in valuing how it can change lives and the value of the soil is becoming more recognised. The team also wishes to reach out to farmers providing advice and knowledge on how, when, what to plant depending on the soils and seasons and how to improve their yields.
Our representative in Uganda, Makaka Vestar, met with volunteer agriculturalist, Luyima Ponsiano, to discuss the programme and to purchase equipment and seeds for use in the community.
Promise met with the village councillor and pastors from the church to discuss the programme. The church identified an area of land for Promise to create a nursery seed bed with the community to grow seedlings to give to families for their kitchen gardens during teaching and arranged to have it prepared for the next visit.
Twenty families signed up for the initial opening of the programme within Gombe.
Unfortunately schools have not returned in Uganda and teachers are struggling to use other social platforms to teach online but resources for families are not commonplace. This project enables children to keep busy and learn a life skill of great importance. Thank you for your continued support. We very much hope that you can spare a few pounds regularly to support our work.
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