Farm clinics for women and youth in agri-business. These encompass practical sessions with research experts in areas of planting, breeding, markets, value addition and sustainable land management. This particular session focused on urban farming, climate change, harvesting and post-harvest handling.
Youth groups sensitized on entrepreneurship training programs and adopting purpose driven lives to enable them maximize their true potential and make the best out of available opportunities. Target youth are then enrolled for VGIF/ZACHEDO entrepreneurship training and business development programs.
Miss Jenna Wallace visited the VGIF 2017 funded HIV+ women economic empowerment project. 165 HIV+ women were trained in entrepreneurship and vocational skills as a result of this project. The ladies displayed the skills they had learnt in making crafts, baking cakes, making yoghurt and counter books. She also met
Women leaders were engaged in their first ever training on effective Sacco governance and management. Members were enlightened on benefits of effective leadership, group formation, honesty and integrity in loan management.
It was a fun day today. Blythe McPhee, a volunteer with VGIF visited the ZACHEDO offices today. She toured the medical centre, met with some of the women beneficiaries and we conducted home visits to assess women businesses. It was our pleasure meeting with you, McPhee and thank you for
ZACHEDO team attended a workshop organized by the Association of Micro-finance Institutions in Uganda at Lugogo UMA Conference hall. The theme was ‘SACCO management information systems and regulation compliance.’ Katwe New Life Women’s SACCO signed up for the monthly performance monitoring visits by AMFIU which are designed to analyse Sacco
ZACHEDO team in their midyear review meeting. Present are consultants from Pearl SME management Institute of Uganda.
500,000 condoms have been disbursed from ZACHEDO offices to the leadership of Buikwe North and Nakaseke sub-counties through their Members of Parliament, Hon Paul Musoke and Hon. SaidaBumba respectively.
As a way to encourage the development of a savings culture among the 165 trained women beneficiaries, Katwe New Life Women’s Sacco was formed in August 2016. Currently it has 80 members and was formally registered on 21st April by Registrar of Cooperative Societies. The ZACHEDO team is focusing the
It was a fun day today. Blythe McPhee, a volunteer with VGIF visited the ZACHEDO offices today. She toured the medical centre, met with some of the women beneficiaries and we conducted home visits to assess women businesses. It was our pleasure meeting with you, McPhee and thank you for