2022:

The SHARE Institute funded Uriama Self Empowerment Foundation (USEF) in Uganda to purchase seeds and agriculture tools to train 120 families.

The women planted eggplant and procured seeds for passion fruits. Some of the women used the revenues from the sales to pay to finish their education. Others purchased chickens and goats to improve their incomes.

Many of the beneficiaries also participated in a project with USEF in 2021 in raising pigs. The combination of raising and selling pigs and agricultural products led to several beneficiaries building small permanent, brick houses and paying for the education of their children.

2023:

SHARE funded Uriama Self-Empowerment Foundation in Uganda to train 13 teen girls on the use and maintenance of a grinding machine to process crop waste into animal feed. The teens were also provided soya bean seeds that will be grown to create the feed. The beneficiaries were surprised at the project taking place, as most projects in the area exist to benefit men and their forward mobility, not women and girls.

At the end of the project, some of the beneficiaries were able to purchase goats with the money they saved.

2021:

This year, SHARE funded a project by Concerted Development in Uganda to train 20 families on the skills for piggery management. This included construction of pig houses, disease prevention, caring for pregnant pigs, and marketing of pig products. Each family has begun construction of the pig houses. The organization has the additional goal of procuring and distributing 20 pigs, one to each beneficiary family.

At the time of project completion, 25 families benefited from the project: five more than was planned. In addition to making and selling pig products, the beneficiaries were also trained in using the pig droppings to fertilize vegetable gardens. The vegetables can be sold to increase the families’ incomes.

Recently, one of the beneficiaries attracted a foreign journalist by showing the first products of the farm. She was very excited to get her first earned income from the yield, despite the drought.