to give rural Ugandans food security
This project will provide...
- Affordable
food for families
- Decent Wages
for local development workers
- Fair trade
for farmers
This is a unique food security appeal to help Ugandans in Namalu, a remote town in the east of the country, to beat the poverty trap.
More than 90 per cent of the population in Namalu rely on farming to make a living.
Because farmers there have nowhere to store their produce they have limited bargaining power when the city traders come calling after harvest.
The traders prey on the farmers’ desperation for quick money and take the food out of Namalu for a fraction of its worth to sell in the towns and cities at inflated prices.
The Namalu people are then left desperately short of money and food.
Your money will go to a food storage project to keep food within the community.
Rather than give money as charity, however, the money will be loaned to local development workers to set up a profitable and sustainable venture.
For every £2,000 we can raise through our food security appeal the development workers will be able to provide new local food storage in silos and pay farmers a good price for their produce.
City traders will then be bypassed and the people of Namalu will have continuous access to affordable food.
It’s a simple but powerful idea to put control back into the peoples’ hands.
Grain silos are a straightforward tool to keep food within a community and to guard against devastating price fluctuations which saw the price of maize, a staple food in , double in Namalu last year.
Watch your money multiply for the good of .
