Aim
for Change has expanded to support over 40 projects in
many different areas of Uganda. These include the original village of Kokoa.
In all Aim for Change has supplied many hundreds of pigs, cows, goats and
chicken. The pigs are now breeding well. Where a project
has achieved self sufficiency, the animals are being sold or passed on to
other villages. Money raised is then used to pay for education.
Kokoa Village
Kokoa is a small village
in the Luwero district, North of Lake Victoria and Kampala. The region lies
at 3000 ft above sea level and experiences high temperatures and rainfall.
The Luwero district has a population of 450 thousand, most of whom live in
rural areas. There is one hospital (104 beds) and 22 health centres.
Kokoa itself has a small
hospital with one doctor and two nurses. We have started a sewing
workshop project at the AIDS clinic to enable the patients to be self supporting.
In 2006 with help from the James Tudor foundation we were able to supply a
large quantity of medical equipment, including mosquito nets (see below).
Medicines, dressings and food are supplies to this hospital regularly.
Food crops in the area
include Cassava,
sweet potatoes, maize, ground nuts, Soya beans and Irish potatoes. Aim
for Change has purchased a 5 acre plot of land (see picture above) which has
been cleared and planted with Cassava, beans, maize and soon Vanilla. This
will provide food for the orphanage in Kampala, Kokoa and surrounding
districts. We have recently purchased 2 further areas of land for
cultivation- 5 acres and 10 acres.
Luwero is one of the areas
that was devastated by war over 10 years ago. Agriculture and livestock
rearing came to a halt. Most people are subsistence farmers, although there
are several large scale farms in the region. In 2006 we funded a second bore
hole in Labongo village, Masindi district-
double-click on play to watch a short video about the impact this water
bore-hole is having on the village
Animal projects
Since the first cow was given to Kokoa
village in 2003, Aim for Change has expanded to provide animal projects in
over 40 villages over Uganda. This year we started projects in Masindi
district in the North West and in Soriti in Eastern
Uganda. Your donations to Aim for Change have provided:
20 imported pigs
more than 800 village pigs (many of which have had many
piglets)
more than 30 village goats
10
village cows (3 have calved, 4 are in calf)
Hundreds of chickens
20 Acres of land cultivated with maize,
cassava and mutoke (plantain)
