Uganda - summary

My certificate

On our twelfth week in Uganda we received our certificates. We compiled reports and made evaluation about our three months internship in NIRP (Uganda, Masaka).

Dinner

Sometimes it was quite useful for increasing appetite to have an extra photo about food, while we were having our breakfast or lunch....delicious!

There was no problem with a fresh meat in Uganda. All kind of dishes were always really fresh and delicious.

Food

Food

Outcomes

We created:

•  a sucessful organic school garden in St. Muggagga high school;
•  a sucessful test pineapple garden in Buwunga;
•  a kitchen garden in one household in Rakai district;
•  an account for fundraising for solar dryer and pineapple juice making machine for 50 farmers in 1% club internet platform.

We organized: 

• really intensive training courses about agroforestry, agriculture, compost and kitchen garden making in Rakai district to pineapple/coffee farmers;
• training courses about organic agroforestry/pesticides in Buwunga;
• meetings with community members affected by HIV/AIDS around Masaka region;
• follow-up visits to these communities/farms, we had worked with;
• German and Estonian cuisine presentations&tastings to representatives of our office NIRP and our honourable colleagues outside of our office.

We made a research about:

• family planning;
• HIV/AIDS prevention strategy
• coffee/pineapple marketing&export;
• agroforestry&agriculture
• mango&banana/matoke production

Charity

Me and my partner donated:

• 1 350 000 shillings to our organisation NIRP;
• onions, papaya trees, organic manure, chicken&organic manure to Buwunga farmers;
• neem oil and papaya trees to farmers in Rakai district.

Observation

We observed:

• living conditions in Kyanamukaka, Buwunga, Rakai district, Masaka district, Kiwangala, Lukindu and in western Uganda; 
• national parks and living conditions of wild animals;
• the issues related to HIV/AIDS;
• school garden management;
• issues related to school fees/school management;
• challenges with hygiene/sanitation at school;
• issues related to donations, charity, finance management inside a NGO;
• challenges with agriculture/agroforestry;
• issues related to agribusiness/export&marketing;
• biogas production;
• livestock management.

We experienced:

• ugandan cuisine;
• ugandan weddings/introduction;
• event management;
• research work;
• traffic management;
• national security;
• internal policy;
• rainy season.

Necessary skills for our internship:

• decision making;
• working under pressure;
• teamwork;
• patience;
• creativity;
• time management;
• finance management;
• marketing management;
• analyse;
• communication.

Our team

GLEN project for Estonians is coordinated by Arengukoostöö Ümarlaud and financed by ASA.


Further information: 

http://glen-europe.org/
http://glen-europe.org/multipliers-training-cycle/internships-2017/50004002-1122/
http://www.terveilm.ee/leht/glen/
http://en.asa-programm.de/english/home/
http://www.nirpuganda.org/