Many members of Invisible Children Uganda’s Village Savings and Loan Associations take on Income Generating Activities (IGA) to earn extra income. The groups meet every week to save money together. They pool their earnings and out of that are able to take out loans to start up IGAs like rearing poultry, keeping goats and cows, or crop farming for food security and commercial use.
The group in Lamwo district is no exception. The Livelihood team recently delivered two sacks full of groundnuts (similar to peanuts) for them to plant and cultivate as a group.
“As a group, we are planning to plant one sack whose yields are strictly for sale, while the other we shall distribute to members of our group to plant in their farms,” says Richard Oroma, the group’s chairperson. “At the time of harvest, we expect at least five sacks since this is just the start, but we hope to keep the cycle going on to have many more sacks,” he adds.
The Livelihood team trains community-based facilitators to run the 161 Village Savings and Loan Associations started by Invisible Children Uganda. They also train instructors in Adult Literacy to teach lessons at each weekly meeting to the group members, many of whom were unable to complete their education. In addition, the Livelihood team has drilled 32 boreholes as part of their Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program to provide clean water to the communities where Village Savings and Loan Associations operate.
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