Vegetable and fruit gardening

Location:                        Okweta, Soroti - Uganda

Project leadtime:            1 year
                  
Requestor:                      James Alemu on behalf of Hands for Children

Description of the project:

Many children in the community do not receive a minimum of 3 meals per day nor the necessary nutrients to support their development. This project will enable Hands for Children to provide meals to the children at school by starting their own vegetable and fruit garden, cultivating soya beans, carrots, cabbage, onions, tomatoes, bananas, oranges, mangos, pawpaw,….amongst lots of others. Avoiding malnutrition and undernourishment will allow the children to go to school.

Objectives:

• Alleviate the hunger problem
• Provide sustainable meals to the children
• Provide education and knowledge to the staff and children on agriculture.

Beneficiaries:

The project will significantly improve the dietary diversity, nutrition, health and welfare of 700 children and youngsters at school.

Budget:

41.315.800 Uganda Shillings i.e. 10.100 € is requested for the purchase of 5 acres of land, for seeds and seedlings and for needed material (fence, spades, watering cans…)

Risks:

Natural risks

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Follow-up of the project

Date:                          August 17th 2021

General status:

The land was acquired and enough space has been cleared to plant vegetables and fruits .The planting began with beans and seeds have been bought for many plants. The drought and lot of sunshine has affected the planting of more crops.
Once the rain started, nursery beds have been built for the vegetables and planting of watermelon, eggplant, tomatoes, green grams and potatoes was started.
The mill is ordered.

Financial status:

The funds arrived well and are spend according to the budget.

Problems/concerns:

The drought caused a delay in planting but as rain started again the project is on good track now.

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Follow-up january 2022

Date:                    January 24th 2022
 
Name project:       Vegetable and fruit gardening

Project No.:           114

General status:

The fruit and vegetable gardening project provides meals to the children as well as provides them and the staff with important education and knowledge around sustainable agriculture. This project is still on going.

Progress since last status report:

The project acquired the land and following crops were planted and harvested:

• Tomatoes have being harvested and consumed
• the egg plants did well and we harvested them
• the water melons did well so we had big ones
• the beans and maize did very well and are being consumed now
• the onions and cassava are still in the garden and not yet ready for consumption
• the potatoes did well and we got 5 bags of potato chips which are being consumed now
• we got 8 bags of sorghum which will be used for consumption

The grinding mill is working and we are helping the community with grinding cereals like maize, millet, sorghum etc. 

Financial status:

The funds were fully used as budgeted.

Problems/concerns:

The main problem was the drought; the first seeds planted were caught by dry spell of 2 weeks; they did germinate but died; once the rain started we did plant again.
Because of the bad weather some crops, which take a long time to germinate, were not sown (bananas, soya bean, paw paw and pineapples). they will be planted next month in February, as it started to rain
The fruit trees are in nursery beds being watered daily waiting for transplanting when we get more rain.

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