Multi-Purpose Training & Community Empowerment

 

MTCEA, an organization based at Iganga, east of Jinja in eastern Uganda, is tackling two very important issues facing Uganda, that of literacy among farmers and the promotion of sustainable agriculture. MTCEA has been running for some 20 years, dependent mainly on volunteer teachers and agriculturalists. In recognition of the work that MTCEA is doing FOAG is supporting the salary of the Programme Coordinator, Peter Owor (£1600 per annum).
 
One of the aims of MTCEA is animal traction. With funds provided by FOAG this project supplies oxen and ploughs on a loan basis to farmer groups,.The loan is organized and administered by MTCEA. Initially 50% of the loan is to be repaid, enabling some of the money to be recycled to benefit more farmers by purchasing more oxen and ploughs, but this will increase to 100% after the first year
 
There is an Animal Traction Implementing Committee, and Veterinary support for the scheme. The District has attached a District Veterinary Officer to the project. 

Project Update 2010

 

Project Coordinators: Michael Bentley

Michael has been involved with FOAG since the early 90s, and has visited Uganda as part of the annual project monitoring visit many times.  His particular interest is  sustainable agriculture, having worked in India and Nigeria on rural development projects.  He is the coordinator for the MTCEA project, which combines many of Michael’s concerns including improved agriculture, literacy through agriculture training and appropriate technology.  Michael, with his wife Chrissy, is kept more than busy running a fruit farm near Newent in Gloucestershire.
 

 

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The coffee plant nursery on one of the farms

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The children welcome us to the village with a song

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Donkeys are being trained to carry the loads often carried by the ladies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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