30 goats to 30 Women of rural Balawoli

As we still embark on the journey of empowering women in our communities, we are also committed to introducing new ideas to ensure the sustainability of the project. 

First and foremost, we are extremely grateful for our friends who decided to walk walk this journey of impacting lives with us. Your continuous support has helped us keep on the truck and see that our goals are achieved. Much we are financially constrained at the moment we have been able to still monitor and nurture our gaots project with the 20 households. This being our fourth year since we launched the project, we have had great and exciting progress alongside challenges. The goats are still increasing in number, and we will be able to distribute more to other families from the newborn kids in July however we lost three baby goats this we was a set back for the project. 

As we continue to see the goats multiply, we were able to start sentising the people in the community about the importance of education to the girl child. In rural areas of Uganda, girls drop out of school due to various reasons, one of them being child marriages, teenage pregnancies, and limited finances by the parents. We are using this opportunity to change the narrative of parents in order to encourage their daughters to start dreaming big through education.  We partnered with a local school and also distributed scholastic materials to the pupils and students in the community.

Using education as a tool to keep girls in school and reduce child marriage teenage pregnancy through sales made from the goats project will enable us to achieve our goal of empowering young girls in Uganda. Moving forward, we hope to see more young girls given an opportunity to stay in school and also build their self-esteem and confidence to face the challenges in the communities. We have gradually managed to achieve this first, sensitising the parents and the local leaders to ensure systems are put in place to support the girls. 

We are always grateful for the support.