MAY 2005 - Investor Trip to Uganda


Investors from the US, Australia and The Netherlands gather with THP staff and women farmers participating
in the AWFFI program in village of the Kiboga Epicentre.  The women displayed the crops
they had grown since receiving their AWFFI loans.
This entrepreneur teaches other women how to
cultivate aloe as an income-generating activity.		 Baking and decorating cakes is a source of income for this woman!

 

When I first heard that The Hunger Project was coming, I thought they were going to distribute food to my people.  I thought, "I will be in politics forever now!"  Then The Hunger Project said they were here to achieve behavioral change.  At first I was lost -- I didn't understand. Then I came to understand.  And now I thank God for The Hunger Project and I thank the community of Wakiso.

-- Local government official, Wakiso Epicenter

 


Colin Tate of Australia
  Jennifer Hunter and Lauri Burrier of Santa Monica Zen Center at the micro-loan facility


Phoenix investor Dorothy Stingley acknowledging our partners at the Kiringente Epicentre.  Behind her are local government officials, members of the THP-Uganda National Advisory Council and THP's Vice President, Dr. Fitigu Tadesse.

Swiss investor Bill Liao Chicago investor Phyllis Bowen


These women are members of a very successful micro-credit group, headed by Margaret Lule, second from left.


This is a home where a woman and her family lived before she became part of the AWFFI micro-credit program.


The woman now lives here, with her sons.  She provided financially for one of her sons to begin his own business!


Lauri Burrier and a partner plant a tree.
Jim Goodman of Philadelphia and Josephine Nalongo, the impetus behind the establishment of the Kiringente Epicenter.


Veronica (right), a participant in the AWFFI program in the village of Kagaba within the Kiringente Epicentre district, proudly shares how she used her AWFFI loan to by a cow, producing milk to feed her family and sell at the marketplace, allowing her to pay her children's school fees. On the left is Irene Wasika Muwanguzi, THP Country Director for Uganda.


Dutch investor Jos Ikink plants a tree at the Kiboga Epicentre
with assistance from Committee Chairman Mr. Christopher Kasimbi.


Raising rabbits is a source of income for this family.

Drip irrigation system directs scarce water directly to the plants with minimal waste of water.


Sam Bowen of Chicago was briefed by this woman on the work of the epicenter.


Phoenix business people Dorothy and Wayne Stingley review the financial records of the epicenter bank.


Australia investor Nicky Ball plants a mango tree, with the assistance of the Chairman of the Kiringente Epicentre committee, Mr. Nsubuga.


This well-organized health center provides immunizations and other health care to children and their mothers.


Children are given a regimen of inoculations at the epicenter, as well as deworming pills.

Uganda Investor Trip

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