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Refugee community in Uganda starts own food production

Food is known as a community builder. At the side of food preparation and consumption the kitchen has traditionally been the family place to meet, talk, interact, help or simply be. In many cultures the food related activities take many hours and are the kernel of family or community life. In Uganda, the people in the Nakivale refugee settlement, asked their government for a few fields in which to develop their own food. The local government granted them the use of nearby fields for a period of 10 years including the option to buy them as property. Gradually local people started to get motivated to join the cultivation team. International foundations, such as STIR, try to help with small amounts of money, acquired through GoFund (link here), to allow the community to purchase materials, seeds and even water. We also provide online advice, as FRE2SH, on how to develop a local economy, providing recognition and fair sharing methods for those that invest time and energy in the cultivation process. We are pleased to see how many people are gathering and developing the food community.


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