RAKAI. Kitovu Mobile, under Mobile Farm School programme, on 25 October graduated 278 trainees from Lwamagwa and Byakabanda Sub-Counties, who were skilled in sustainable modern farming practices. There was a lot making news during the graduation and handover ceremony which was held at Rakai District headquarters, but the students’ testimonies regarding how
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Celebrations as 556 Kyotera Safe Spaces trainees graduate
KYOTERA. Scenes of joy engulfed Kyotera District leaders on 18 October 2018,especially the Probation Officer as Kitovu Mobile and its partners Rakai Health Science Programme graduated 556 girls. The girls acquired skills in various hand-on programmes where 117 and 32 girls where trained in bakery, craft making respectively. Another 20
District authorities bank on Kitovu Mobile farm school trainees to promote modern farming
RAKAI. Mr Richard Tebandeke, the new Rakai District deputy chief administrative officer, has tasked various community development officers and agricultural extension workers in the district to keep in the touch with the Kitivu Mobile Farm School trainees who are richly skilled in modern farming and use them to educate fellow
Sebowa: An orphan who looked after someone’s cows, gardens now owns a farm
MASAKA. After death robbed him of his parents in 2002, Joseph Sebowa could not study beyond Primary Seven. A resident of Takajunge Village in Kabonera Sub-County, Masaka District and a first born in a family of six, Sebowa says he had to stay with his siblings and when he felt
Lubega discovers gold in commercial agriculture
BUKOMANSIMBI. A visit to his father’s home in Mpalampa Village, Kibinge Sub -County, Bukomansimbi District, we find Pascal Lubega busy irrigating his crops. It’s a dry a season, and the energetic young farmer could not wait for rain. Instead, he is using bottle irrigation, to keep his passion fruit
41 youth acquire modern farming skills
WAKISO. Acquiring hand-on skills is an important asset in life. Where other people struggle to get employment, one with hand-on skills simply starts his own where he becomes the boss . This really fits in the lives of 41 youth who acquired modern agriculture skills courtesy of Kitovu Mobile Aids
Young farmers in Masaka region discuss opportunities, challenges
About 60 young farmers from Masaka, Lwengo, Kalungu, Bukomansimbi and Rakai converged in Masaka to share experiences and to assess their progress in farming since they completed their agricultural training, which was conducted by Kitovu Mobile, an anti-HIV/Aids organisation under Masaka Catholic Diocese. The meeting was a follow up to
Farming helped Lutabi overcome hardships
William Lutabi, a resident of Butale B village in Kabonera Sub-county, Masaka District, lost both parents when he was an infant and had to be taken care of by his grandparents. However, after he completed primary school, they could not afford to take him to secondary school due to financial
Rising defilement cases worry Sembabule leaders
Ssembabule District leaders have raised a red flag about the increasing cases of defilement. n average, 13 girls are defiled every month, a number the leaders say is worrying given that some young girls are infected with HIV/Aids. Sixty-seven girls have been defiled in Ssembabule District in the last five
Making mixed farming work in a small space
At 26 years of age, Mike Miwanda is just about to achieve one of his childhood dreams —to own a large house in his home village of Butale, Kabonera Sub-county in Masaka District. When Seeds of Gold visited his home, he was busy supervising the construction of the house in