One village Uganda is a nonprofit community based organization operating from Nyabushabi parish, kyanamira sub-county, kabale district, Uganda. The total population of this community is above 3750 people according to the report by the government made 2 years ago of these, 99.5% are peasants who depend on rain Agriculture as their source of food and income for development.
People in this village/community liveunder poverty characterized by lack of education, sanitation, malnutrition in children and unemployment especially youth and women. And the founding director of this program is Rotarian Herbert Bagyenyi Kajoki who now with board members constitute the running of the organization, technical advisor and other members of the community on the committee.
Why One Village Uganda? It is because the community or Uganda is big and wholesomely cannot developat once and may need a lot of resources that are not available. But starting with one village or a few selected households like 50house holds, development connects to other villages/communities hence to the whole country.
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To check out environmental and climate threats that affect land use and production through use of modern agriculture as the best tool for sustainable income that will improve food security, malnutrition in children and a source of income through agro-enterprise systems.
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To work through women, children’s rights and elderly to raise income through strengthening savings and entrepreneurship among people.
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To sensitize, mobilize and advocate for stakeholders through engaging school management committees, PTA and Teachers so that we improve education standards in rural communities.
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To connect cultures/communities across the world through tourism and volunteering.
One Village Uganda offers several trainings in sustainable agriculture so that they can shift from subsistence farming to modern farming.
We train women & youth in life skills to enable them gain economical financial transformation.
With the transformed community, that will be able to educate their children and live in this competitive world of having enough food.