Save Sunshine Shelter Kids

Far project

The program not only benefits us but also the entire group of women who were settled back in the COVID crisis, this land is mainly used for food consumption by the women and the Maize benefits also assist the shelters in case of emergency but most often after the harvest and we take the harvest food stuffs to the machines. We let the profits be shared by the women and their children as they all communally work with us to plant and harvest. Many of these women don’t own land and it is with this regard that we share it with them as we looked at their resettlement plans. This trend prompts the question – why and when will these women be fully sustainable and on their own?

Ugandan women, in general, most women are single mothers not by choice but the forcefully living conditions that continue to harden in different homesteads has pushed many men away from the responsibilities and for some that stay to try cater for their families continue to abandon their roles especially looking after their children, by the time we find many women the overwhelming of the constant basic needs push them to either join ill behavior activities or seek help to learn skills in our small projects.

Our Aim

Our aim is to get the food production increased and be able to help more children in the far projects and also develop a series of profit schemes to benefit the programs that have to keep running. However, at the moment the most important aspect is to have many women well set to care for their children through food production from our garden and see them acquire independence as the COVID-19 affected majority of our women who are still recovering from the negative effects of the crisis.

Demonstration:-

We involve the shelter children from the start of how to plant, prepare them and show them the need to be courageous and what it takes to build strong families by creating sustainable measures for them. We know that through practical and visible teaching of Agriculture the children are able to learn and practice what they are taught at any given time. Teaching/Training: Our shelter children make monthly visits and participate in the production of planting, harvesting, weeding and removal of the needed crops if ready.

History of our land

The main target for us was to acquire a small piece of land outside the city; however, it became a huge dream for us as we were unaware of how it would become a possibility. Luckily a late friend (Gerald) of us contributed largely to make this a reality for us. We have a piece of land, a portion of it is attributed to farming and the other part for burial in case we lose children, women from our programs and we are unable to trace their families.

We purchased this land through agreements and after this process we are to push to the next level of acquiring its land title and all the transfer letters from the responsible authorities. This is basically a process in terms of administration and for proper safety in order to avoid land theft. It requires quite a sum of money and it is why we work on it in a stages.

Our Hope

Our hope is to enlarge (purchase more) the land so that we can have different programs carried out and have the shelter moved up onto the land so that we can have many costs reduced monthly and attain the possible goals we want to achieve for the children and the community at large. Currently we continue to grow maize which supports mainly the women during programs and those with HIV/AIDS as a big number of them continue to need food supplies every month.

We have been lucky enough to see what happens when we do and give a little bit of ourselves to work with the women and the giant Significance there is empowering families.

Impact

We start up income generating projects for a child`s family in order to improve their well-being and keep the children happily settled at home. We have done this through setting up small scale farming projects for the families, poultry, and setting up small enterprises for the families. We do this in order for the resettled children to be able to acquire all the needed materials while at home and ensure there is sustainability among others.
All the food production at the far project goes into supporting the women and the children programs that we run there. The maize plays a vital element in the feeding of the children and their mothers. We are working highly so that in future we can have more land where we can build and put an Infrastructure and reduce on the rate costs that we have to incur in the year.