WASH

In rural Uganda today, 67% of people have limited to zero access to a safe drinking water source. 83% of people have limited to zero access to a safe toilet facility. 94% of people have limited to zero access to a handwashing facility. The conditions in rural areas of Busoga region especially Budiope have led to a rise in illnesses like diarrhea and bilharzia due to poor sanitation and hygiene practices.DLLN-Uganda has cobstructed several boreholes in Kidera and piped water system has been set up in Kagulu. 

Agriculture

The cause of poverty in Busoga is attributed to a number of factors like the Poor agricultural practices, such as subsistence farming, Land fragmentation and Lack of a clear focus on the best alternative to the failing sugar cane growing, among others.

As DLLN-Uganda, we believe that these problems in Busoga Sub region can be handled, with strategies clearly laid out in the “Promoting Technological adaptation for increased Productivity and Nutrition Project” in Buyende district for a self sustaining Agriculture sector.  DLLN-Uganda has thus come up with the following interventions to ensure food security, increase Household incomes, thus bringing about Socio- Economic Transformation in the region

Skilling

Uganda currently has one of the youngest populations in the world with more than 78% of its 35 million people below the age of 30, of those 11% are unemployed and 26% are largely underemployed. Youth unemployment has been attributed to the narrow size of the formal employment sector and the limited engagement of youth in the agricultural sector that employs more than 85% of the rural population.

In the past year, DLLN – Uganda  established a skilling programme for the youth and young mothers .The centers were established  to train the youth and young mothers that many people had dismissed as abatasoma/bamisomo gyalema (the uneducated). The centres train these youth in  shoemaking and Crafts, tailoring and hairdressing.