Poverty being the major hinderance to the economic development of orphans, widows and other vulnerable and our entire community, Living Word Gospel Care Foundation works tirelessly in empowering the youth and women economically so to meet their daily basic needs. We offer vocational skills in tailoring, knitting, welding and metal fabrication, basket weaving, art and craft and also carpentry to the vulnerable orphans (those who have the right age for skill training)  widows, single mothers, school dropouts’ youths and some other members of the community.

We also empower widows, orphans – 14 to 18 years who are not in schools for formal education, youths people with disability and other marginalized women in animal husbandry and sustainable agriculture in organic farming. We deal in the following activities;

 

• • Vocational Skills
    • Poultry farming.
    • Handcraft/weaving.
    • Bee keeping.
    • Piggery.
    • Garden marketing.
    • Floriculture.
    • Zero grazing goats.
    • Seedling Nursery bed.

     

    • • Fish farming.

Food and Nutritional Security

More people die each year from hunger and malnutrition than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Because the Ugandan population is increasing rapidly, demand for more varied diets is also increasing, which calls for growing more food yet the land is already exhausted and degraded. Ugandans are facing increased costs constantly, but the yields continuously decline, and the people’s survival, livelihoods, and incomes are threatened.

Our Approach

Living Word Gospel Care Foundation is working to develop a community-driven sustainable responses that address the three pillars of food security: food availability, food access, and food utilization. The efforts also contribute to the National Development Goals and SDGs, using the following cross-cutting interventions:

 

• • Promoting good practices for food production regardless of our unfriendly weathers to food crops.
  • Teach resource-poor families how to manage small animals (poultry, pigs, goats, etc.) that can act as collateral for loan acquisition; support the families with integrating the animals into the farming systems; facilitate marketing of local produce through storage depots and linking producers to buyers; explore linking producers to micro-finance institutions (MFI) such that loans can be made available for those with produce in store waiting for better market prices.

• • Promote the beekeeping craft and aquaculture to help poor farmers get higher yields from flowering crops (plants), while ensuring food security and responding to the rapid environmental degradation; in addition to pollination and fecundation, bees/beekeeping helps monitor environmental pollution, create employment, reduce poverty, and improve nutrition through the selling and consumption of honey.

• • Promote general awareness on environmental sustainability through a wide variety of activities such as promoting use of solar panels, waste recycling (plastic and non-plastic), eco-tours and eco-photography competition.

• • Promote gender mainstreaming and effective engagement of women and youth in environmental activities.

• • Promote adoption of renewable energy technologies such solar, bicycle, and wind energy.