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UGANDAN
SUSTAINABILITY
The sustainability pillar leads the work in schools and the
community to provide a hand up, not a hand out, and to make
sure that our impact is benefiting the community for many
years to come.
This year we have participated in the World Food Program
food security initiative to train farmers in better food storage
methods. To avoid crops being lost after harvest because
of a lack of storage, we are able to help families purchase
simple storage containers that will help them have food
to feed their family for the whole year, or to be able to sell
crops after harvest time when they can get the best price
for their produce.
The same approach to food storage is now being rolled out to
our schools to help them reduce their cost of meals at school
by being able to buy in bulk or grow and store their own food.
In Southern Uganda coffee is one of the main sources of
income for families. Our sustainability team has focused on
training and capacity building groups of coffee farmers to
improve their farming and drying methods. This yields higher
quality coffee beans and better crop sizes to directly grow
their income.
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