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Location: KABALE, UGANDA
One village Uganda is a non profit community based organization operating in kyanamira sub-county, kabale district, Uganda. In this community. majority are peasants who depend on rain Agriculture as their source of food and income for development.
People in this village/community live under poverty characterized by lack of education, sanitation, malnutrition in children. Poor modern agricultural skills, failure to change their mind set and unemployment especially youth and women. And the founding director of this program is Rotarian Herbert Bagyenyi Kajoki . who works tirelessly to help and support the rural community in raising a sustainable income through Agriculture, education and enterprises especially women, youth and children.
Herbert Bagyenyi Kajoki is a male aged 43. Born in the hills of Nyakahita village, Nyabushabi parish Kyanamira subcounty kabale district south western Uganda. Herbert is a Rotarian and a member of the rotary international who practices service above self.
Why one village Uganda? It is because the community or Uganda is big and wholesomely cannot develop at once and may need a lot of resources that are not available. But starting with one village or a few selected households like 50 households per parish and 350 households in 7 parishes that make a subcounty, development connects to other villages/communities hence to the whole country.
Our vision:
To providing a sustainable, life- changing opportunity to the neediest families.
Our mission:
To build capacity in the community through Agritourism, education and entrepreneurship. Thereby to provide a sustainable income.
Our Objectives:
To check out environmental and climate change 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.
To work through women, children’s rights and elderly to raise income through strengthen savings and entrepreneurship among people.
To sensitize, mobilize and advocate for stakeholders through engaging school management committees, PTA and Teachers so that we improve education standards in rural communities.
To connect cultures/communities across the world through tourism and volunteering.
Our core objective
To partner with relevant stakeholders, institutions, organizations/foundations and individuals among others, continuous training of our members to enable them acquire knowledge and skills for sustainable development,