Namalu Food Security Scheme
Towards the end of last year many of you helped FOAG raise £2000 in a new scheme called ‘Helping Ugandans help themselves’
Every year in Namalu town, in semi-desert Karamoja, city merchants pay farmers a poor price for their produce. Months later, when food supply is critically low, they sell it back to the local community at hugely inflated prices. Thanks to FOAG’s new scheme things are changing. Your money has formed a low-interest loan to a long established community enterprise called CIRIDE, (backed by FOAG). The enterprise has used the loan to pay farmers a fair price for their produce and is now storing the food (mostly maize and beans) in really well made local silos. Later in the year when food is getting scarce and expensive the community will have their own secured supply of food which they will be able to buy at an affordable price. This will allow CIRIDE to repay the loan into a fund to be reinvested into further projects in the area. This is a great FOAG scheme. Your donation is working hard and growing and growing.
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Project Coordinator: Iain Patton
Like the malaria he contracted while working in Kenya, Africa has got into Iains blood! His passion is the need to find a better balance between social, economic and environmental pressures particularly as Africans are now finding themselves at the sharp end of climate change and resource depletion. In FOAG Iain is particularly interested in the agricultural, environmental and micro credit projects. His day job is running a national sustainability organisation for universities and colleges and he takes every opportunity to link institutions in the UK and Africa and Asia.
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