Food Security

More food security initiatives.
From 2005
1. the out put of this tree nursery has increased from 1M to 1.5 M stems of seedlings. They nursery has also increased their seed beds to a total of three.
2.Their membership in the co-operative has grown from 13 to 20.
3.The project has succeeded in attracting customers from beyond their own district. 4.The trees they grow are used for wood fuel and lumber for building constructionand are now in plenty especially as the eucalyptus trees have reached consumption level 5.The Nen Antim co-op has developed a good relationship with the National Environmental Management authority of Uganda
6.The members of the local community can gain casual employment especially at the time of
•potting,
•seedbed preparation and
•seedling packing during marketing season.

With this kind of success the families of the co-operative have been able to
•put up permanent residential houses,
•acquire bicycles to ease transport of their products (if you can call using a bike easy transport) and
•generally improve their own lifestyle standards!
It was a really cool project to be able to witness.
They have Vision for the Future:
•They would love to be able to expand to places even further away and open up branches in those places.
•They’d like to be able to envision a future time when their families and their neighbourhood will have medicinal trees (like the orringa, neem and lodine). These trees will enable the community to combat diseases such as malaria as well as enable them to treat open wounds and general sickness. If they can do this they will be able to participate in reducing the stress on the present lacking health care system (if you can call it that) and the cost to the families for treatment and prescriptions.

The Acholi people are hardworking and a resourceful people. When given the seed money for getting ahead they will get up and go on their own.
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