Proposed Interests and Activities

 

Giving out Pens	Weaving Baskets	Craft Centre & Workshop	Lunch at Uganda Lodge

Office Based Projects

1. Setting up classes using local language DVD ’s to educate on basic life skills
2. Teaching business skills and ways to start small income producing projects
3. Facilitating adult education lessons especially for the teaching of English
4. Discussion groups on best methods of marketing produce
5. Teaching of computer skills and office procedures e.g. typing, book-keeping
6. Open a nursery school to supplement existing primary education

Craft Orientated Skills

1. Expand existing knowledge of making pots and decorative plates
2. Build up skills for new designs of mats and baskets, suitable for souvenirs
3. Passing on knitting and tailoring skills to interested adults and teenagers
4. Learning of new crafts e.g. Batik, Tie Dye, Crochet
5. Production of handmade beads & Jewellery Making
6. Learning to make souvenirs from waste materials
7. Practice the staging of drama, singing, dancing and musical shows
8. Learning wood carving, especially items suitable as tourist souvenirs
9. Learn sellable skills such as hair-braiding, shaving, massage, manicure etc

Vocational Trades

1. Opening of a series of small workshops to teach unskilled youngsters a trade, utilising tools ready & waiting to be used at Uganda Lodge e.g. mechanics, plumbers, electricians, builders, carpenters etc
2. Learn new nutritious cooking recipes, using locally available ingredients

Horticultural Projects

1. Organise lectures on eco-friendly farming methods (Kulika Trust Training)
2. Facilitating the introduction of new varieties of vegetables and fruits
3. Setting up nursery beds for trees and plants to sell on to local farmers
4. Promote the growing of Artemisia & other plants for Malaria & ARV drugs
5. Training course on methods of fruit-drying for “Fruits of the Nile” in Jinja
6. Building a demonstration mushroom growing house & methods of drying

Animal Husbandry

1. Demonstration chicken rearing unit for broilers
2. Demonstration chicken rearing unit for producing eggs
3. Profitable Rabbit keeping
4. Pig breeding and fattening for pork or further breeding
5. Goat rearing for meat and introducing goat’s milk especially for infants
6. Digging fish-ponds and starting profitable fish farming e.g. Tilapia
7. Bee keeping and honey production
8. Making a profit from just one cow

Tourist Related Projects

1. Organise lectures on what to offer tourists & how to manage them (UCOTA training)
2. Learn to host tourists on hill-walks and visits to nearby villages and farms
3. Plan set walks around the area of varying lengths and difficulty
4. Take lessons on serving and providing meals & drinks for tourists
5. Teach tourists about locally grown fruits and vegetables & how they’re used
6. Get information from schools on how tourists could volunteer their services

Other Social Enterprise Projects

1. Build & open kiosks at the front of Uganda Lodge to sell local produce and crafts
2. Complete the building of a community hall for many village activities & classes
3. Continue with the building of craft centre/workshop for various vocational/business classes
4. Open a second-hand clothing store to make a small profit
5. Dig a well with hand-pump as a safe water supply outside Uganda Lodge
6. Open a salon/beauty parlour for locals and tourists alike

Fruit Drying	Pig Project	Classroom	Brick Making