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2007 – 10
Namayumba Sub-County, Wakiso District, Central Southern Uganda
Number of Beneficiaries: 40+
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PROJECT GOALS:
Opened in April 2007, the Kulika Centre is a practical and
sustainable representation of Kulika’s approach to Community
Development. It has been developed as a self-financing unit
which grows and sells organically produced marketable crops.
It aims at empowering farmers and their communities to use
their land more effectively and sustainably through adopting
sustainable organic agriculture. Farmers are trained as ‘Key
Farmer Trainers’ who share the knowledge gained from
Kulika training with others in their community via what is
termed ‘Farmer to Farmer Extension’. During each
one-year phase of the current project, twenty trainee farmers,
drawn from the local area and across the country, work towards
the award of a Post Experience Diploma in Sustainable Organic
Agricultural (SOA) techniques. It is hoped that the Centre
can become an important focus of education and research in
farming, improving awareness and understanding of SOA within
the local community and across the region.
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ACHIEVEMENTS:
The Kulika Centre has already been used as a base for training
on a consultancy basis with over 60 members of CADeP (Congregational
Agricultural Development Programme) successfully trained in
SOA in 2007/08. In June 2008 the Kulika Centre hosted the
Food for Thought workshop, training over 100 teachers on how
to inspire young people on issues of food, environment and
culture. Farmer to farmer workshops are in continual operation,
enabling Key Farmers to return to their community to train
fellow farmers in sustainable Organic Agriculture. In these
ways the Kulika Centre’s work touches all corners of
Uganda.
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