- Uganda
About Program
This program promotes enterprises development that earn income to local people as well and support social well being among women. Through small scale farm businesses such as livestock rearing, vegetable growing and craft making women and youth earn incomes that support their families and provides for their basic needs.
A typical rural woman will spend most of her time looking for firewood to make meals for her family, fetching water and looking after their children and husband. This means that they entirely rely on their husbands for a living since they don’t have any employable skills and thus live in very poor conditions in their communities and can’t support their families on their own.
This program empowers rural women and youth to engage in productive smallholder environment friendly enterprises such as paper bag making, knitting, hand craft making from waste material and others besides their farming activities to earn an extra income besides their domestic work.