📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The CBO has activities running on daily basis and mainly farm work which has committed and well skilled members. The CBO has 31 members of which 24 female 7 male. The project aims at striving for healthy living. The project was initiated due to high poverty within our community and increased deaths due to Aids and Malaria.
Vision: To alleviate poverty and hunger through agricultural activities.
Mission: Initiate and encourage income generating activities by empowering women, men and the youth to acquire agricultural modern skills and creating awareness in the field of HIV/AIDS and Malaria.
Some of the challenges facing the group in its implementation of their activities include but not limited to: Lack of literacy rate in our community members; Lack of new technology skills in agricultural and veterinary; High deaths rates due to HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB infections.
💼 What the programme involves
Project activities
Sensitization of the community on HIV/AIDS and Malaria; Education on Early Child Development within the C.B.O.; Organic Farming on {horticultural farming}; they plant soya and produce soya product added value; poultry keeping; growing of tissue culture bananas
Volunteer tasks
Sensitization of the community on HIV/AIDS and Malaria; Education on Early Child Development; Organic Farming on {horticultural farming}; poultry keeping; growing of tissue culture bananas; awareness creation within the community; resource mobilization and capacity building among the group members
🏠 Accommodation on site
in the project
📍 About the location
Emuhaya, Vihiga County
ℹ️ Additional information
The extra fee of 300 EUR is for the first month; each additional month it will be 200 EUR