Published in Living Hope Newsletter, November 2011
The Living Hope ladies in Gulu have recently been trained in agronomy and livestock, all part of equipping them with a variety of skills to help them support their families.
Agnes is a widow looking after 6 of her children and 2 of her sister’s children. She attended the training and learnt so many new things. “I am now going to plant bananas and I have learnt where I can graft sweet bananas and matooke (savoury bananas), so I am looking forward to harvest time,” she says.
Scholastica is one of the ladies who graduated earlier in the year and with the start up capital she received, she was able to set up a piggery unit at her home. She bought a female pig, which produced five litter. She then sold two of the litter to pay school fees for her daughter and is using the rest to multiply her stock. Scholastica hopes to have at least twenty pigs by the end of the year.
