Covid-19: Kitovu Mobile distributes farm inputs to enable youth utilise lockdown by engaging in farming.
One of the trainees happily receives gumboots,spray a a hoes,carried by his guardian.
By Moses Muwulya,Communications Officer
Kitovu Mobile has distributed farm inputs to its Mobile Farm School trainees.
Trainee holding his spray.
Dick,project agricultural officer hands over inputs to trainees
The trainees,who can no longer gather at the farm schools for training, are now busy at home engaging in farming.
Moses attends to his nursery bed. He hopes to use the better seeds and skills received for high yields
The primary seven drop out,residing ,Kijajasi,Ndagwe Sub-County,Lwengo District, expects to get close to 300,000 from tomatoes and cabbages which seedlings he got.
Trainees displaying their tins of seedlings. They all hope to use such better breeds for high yields leading to improved livclihood.
About Mobile Farm School
With support from Kindernotif,aGermanay Charity, Kitovu Mobile the Mobile Farm School Project in 1998. It aimed to enable orphans and other vulnerable children who drop out of formal school live a better life.
The initiative aims is to improve the capacity of people affected by HIV/Aids .
To help persons affected with HIV to engage in modern farming and sensitive about HIV, was started in 1998
It targets to ensure food security in homes and livelihood improvement.
Targeted beneficiaries
The beneficiaries, who are mainly school dropouts are enrolled on a four year training, where they are engaged in modern farming as well as capacity building to fight against HIV and domestic violence.
They are given two weeks to go and implement what they learn and this, they are given seedlings to plant at home.
Testimonies from former trainees.