[UAH] Agriculture improves lives of women in Kapchorwa-THE YOUTH TOO MUST EMBRACE AGRICULTURE!!!
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Agriculture improves lives of women in KapchorwaPublish Date: Jun 28, 2013
Kapchorwa women adopt irrigation farming to beat climate change. Photo by Titus Kakembo
By Titus Kakembo
Women in Kapchorwa are sparing not an atom of energy to embark on the land to salvage their families from recurring threats of food insecurity as a result of climate change, endemic poverty, corruption among local leaders and poor health.
"They manually open up land, plant and harvest," reveals an Actionaid Project Officer Patrick Kitiyo. "Unfortunately it is the men who sell the harvest and budget for the cash got. Very many opt to get polygamous or visit pubs for Komek beer." "Among us (Sebei) the male are dominant. The land is owned by male brothers, sons and husbands," Kitiyo added
A tour of Kapchorwa district, located high up on the slopes of Mount Elgon ranges in Eastern Uganda was a revelation of different cultures, altitudes and panoramic ranges.
For long, it has suffered the effects of climate change and cattle rustling perpetuated by the ancestral conflict between the Karimojong in northeastern Uganda and their Pokot pastoral counterparts based in Western Kenya. The worst hit were the women and their children.
The Kapchorwa NAADS coordinator Francis Alinyo echoes similar sentiments. "Many a farmer here are still trapped in a vicious circle of poverty because of loan sharks. They are fleeced by loan sharks charging interest rates as high as 20-60 percent," says Alinyo.
"There is need to put in place a bank which will address the plight of farmers. Farmers need funds to buy planting seeds and other required farm inputs."
Adding that, farmers need better post-harvest handling of their crop or risk it decaying.
"Storage of a bumper harvest is difficult because drying depends on sun shine. There are no preservation systems for bananas, tomatoes, vegetables and fruits," summed Alinyo.
Folks in Kapchorwa excited over an irrigation method which will enable continuous harvest regardless
of rain patterns. Photo by Titus Kakembo
While braving all the obstacles, came an irrigation scheme, funded and facilitated by Actionaid Uganda. Woria Reflect Group Scheme has membership of 300 women, from different parishes.
"My life has never been the same since I joined the Woria Reflect Group Scheme," confesses one of pioneer members, Harriet Cherotwo 40, from Chesum village. "I am a mother of eight children who previously, as a housewife, depended on my husband for everything."
But since she joined Woria, Cherotwo's perception of life changed. Today she is the vice chairperson of the group.
"I have managed to fend for the family. I embarked on agriculture with a vengeance. Today I rear goats, ducks and chicken," says Cherotwo. "The live stock is in addition to maize, coffee and bananas harvested."
"Given a balanced diet and hygiene, my visits to the doctor for treatment have reduced."
Besides farming skills, the group has been equipped with income generating skills, book keeping and entrepreneurial skills.
"We can now monitor the local government expenses and hold our local leaders accountable," says Cherotwo. "I have learned to exercise my democratic rights as we meet fortnightly.
This has elevated a woman's status to a partner, in a family unit, not a commodity as it were. But the challenge is how to make runaway husbands responsible for the family left behind."
Currently we are fighting cultural practices like, women not being able to own land or inherit property. The practice is if she bought land it would be in the names of a son or her brother!"
The Woria project officer Patrick Kityo says the group currently needs access to family planning, prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission and the ability to own and inherit property.
"The Woria Irrigation scheme has reduced the dependence on weather patterns for agricultural harvest," says Kityo. "This means more incomes throughout the year. During the dry spells they just turn on the taps."
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A VICTIM OF APARTHEID ETHNICALLY ENTRENCHED GENOCIDAL CUM TERRORIST MAFIA DICTATORSHIP OF MUSEVENI,SUPER -BLOODY MAFIA STRATEGIST AMAMA MBABAZI,THE DEADLY SAM ENGOLA/MUSEVENI LANGO HENCHMAN AND THEIR MAFIAS OPPOSITION/LANGO MAFIA NETWORKS PLUS A VICTIM OF NORTHERN UGANDA NRM GRAND HUMAN RESOURCE DESTRUCTION POLICY OF ITS POTENTIALS AND GRAND NRM ECONOMIC SABOTAGE PLANS TO KEEP THE NORTH PERPETUALLY IN POVERTY/TURN US INTO BEGGARS,A NORTHERN UGANDA GENOCIDE SURVIVOR,MY RIGHT LEG BROKEN ON 24/JUNE/2001 IN FRONT OF SAM ENGOLA LIRA HOTEL IN THE PRESENCE OF PRESIDENTIAL GUARD BRIGADE WHO PROTECTED MUSEVENI IN LIRA WHILE CAMPAIGNING FOR SAM ENGOLA THAT DAY-SURVIVING DEATH MIRACULOUSLY DUE TO GOD'S PROTECTION AND I ESCAPED SEVERAL MURDER ATTEMPTS ON MY LIFE RIGHT FROM 2000 TO DATE-POLITICALLY PERSECUTED,ECONOMICALLY SABOTAGED IN BUSINESS AND MY NGO PROJECTS, DENIED ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE/ EDUCATION-EXPELLED FROM MAKERERE UNIVERSITY IN FOURTH YEAR WHILE PURSUING BACHELOR OF LAWS AND COMPLETELY FRUSTRATED IN TERMS OF PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT,SOCIALLY DISLOCATED -ISOLATED AND LIVING IN PAINED PHYSICALLY,MENTALLY,EMOTIONALLY WHILE SPIRITUALLY FOUGHT WITH NRM EVIL SPIRITS(MAYEMBES/KIFARO) AND CULTURALLY UPROOTED BECAUSE OF OPPOSING/DISAGREEING WITH MUSEVENI & HIS NRM MAFIA POLITICAL PARTY,HAILING FROM A WRONG REGION/ TRIBE/CLAN .I PATRICK AROMA TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE AFFIRM AND CONFIRM THAT WHAT I HAVE STATED HERE IS THE TRUTH AND THE WHOLE TRUTH NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS BEING DONE TO YOU OR YOUR SON BY YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT??? A MAFIA GOVERNMENT IN MY OWN MOTHERLAND WHO HATES TO SEE MY PROGRESS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY -IF THIS IS NOT APARTHEID THEN WHAT IS IT ??? FROM 1999-2004 I WAS ON TEL:NO 0772-621-761 which MTN MADE IT IN ACCESSIBLE/BLOCKED AND LATER SOLD TO ANOTHER PERSON BEFORE TAKING ON 0782-658-458.ALL MY COMMUNICATIONS AT THAT MATERIAL TIME CAN BE ACCESSED ON 0772-621-761.
MY FIFTY YEARS DEADLY JOURNEY TO THE GOLDEN TRAGEDIES OF OUR MOTHERLAND-WHY I NEVER CELEBRATED THE JUBILEE!!!
1962-1975-1 was not yet born
1976-1979-IDI AMIN MURDERED MY UNCLES THE LATE HON: AROMA MARTIN,EMOR BEN AND MY FATHER THE LATE PETER OGWAL
1980-1986
WE SURVIVED ON RELIEF FOOD (YELLO POSHO +BEANS) under very difficult conditions as orphans though we had plenty of cattle that was eventually stolen by NRM/UPDF
1986-2000 My Childhood Destruction
NRA/UPDF STOLE ALL OUR CATTLE WHEN I WAS LOOKING AFTER THEM AND RAPED MY COUSIN SISTER IN MY PRESENCE
Museveni SURAMBAYA FIGHTER JETS BOMBS OUR HOME VILLAGE-FIVE KILOMETERS FROM LIRA TOWN AND I SURVIVED AS MANY INNOCENT CIVILIANS WERE KILLED PLUS LIVE STOCKS
Alice Lakwena War BEGAN that really exposed us to a lot of dead bodies bombed,shot and cut with matchetes LYING LIFELESS FROM OUR VILLAGE TO LIRA TOWN
Gen: David Tinyefuza OPERATIONS NORTH where even Children were not spared KIBOKO-we were thoroughly caned by UPDF as they arrested the 18 famous Northern Uganda Politicians at that material time
2000-2012
NRA Mafias start my PERSECUTION at Makerere University
Breaking of my leg
Expulsion from Makerere
Museveni STATE HOUSE PLUS THEIR MAFIA NETWORKS ON MY HOT PURSUIT DEVISING ALL STRATEGIES TO MURDER ME
2012 ON WARDS
- STILL SURVIVING THE MAFIAS,LIVING IN FEAR AND PAIN,BEING HUNTED LEFT,RIGHT AND CENTER BY MAFIAS PLUS THEIR NETWORKS.
- ON 29/JANUARY/2004 DURING RADIO ONE EKIMEEZA TALKSHOW AT CLUB OBBLIGATTO I REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF MUSEVENI CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION BOUGHT FROM NORTH KOREA AND IRAN-THAT WAS HIDDEN UNDER GULU AIRPORT HUNKER AND THE UNITED NATIONS GRABBED,DESTROYED AND TOOK AWAY THE REMAINING ONES TO UNKNOWN DESTINATION-THIS IS ONE REASON WHY PRESIDENT MUSEVENI AND HIS MAFIAS CAN NEVER-NEVER-I SAY NEVER FORGIVE ME SINCE I EXPOSED AND SPOILED THEIR DEADLY DESTRUCTIVE AGENDA FOR NORTHERN UGANDA!!!
ON-TOP OF THE ABOVE,NO TERM LIMITS PROMOTING LIFE PRESIDENCY, CREATING HOPELESSNESS, UNCERTAINTY & CONSOLIDATING APARTHIED PLUS TRIBALISM, THERE IS MASSIVE POVERTY,UNEMPLOYMENT,HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES,IMPUNITY,MURDERS,INEQUALITY,GENOCIDE,DISUNITY IN THE COUNTRY,ETC
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