Agrilinks For Women Empowerment (AWE)

AWE is a Social Business in Uganda, dedicated to empowering women. Located in Gulu, Omoro Region.

AWE believes women, children, youth and families prosper and flourish when society and its communities provide opportunities to be productive, healthy and live in harmony.

 

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Mission

MISSION STATEMENT: AWE endeavours to empower women farmers in Omoro District/Bobi Subdistrict to achieve a higher standard of living.

VISION: Subsistence women farmers are transformed into middle class citizens.

STRATEGIES: Empower women farmers for higher yields and incomes.

GOALS (CSF): Women farmers will be middle class citizens.

TACTICS: Trainers and extension workers will empower women farmers with improved farming methods.

OBJECTIVES:  Higher incomes, family food security, all children go to school.

Areas of Operation

Gulu, Amuru, Omoro.
AWE has been operating in the two districts of Gulu and Amuru, now Omoro district, since 2009. From 2014 our activities have since been supported by funding from different sources. We expect to expand utilizing best practices adopted from our activities in this region. The targeted communities are characterised by low educational and health status, severe levels of poverty, insufficient social services, and low levels of investment in human and local resources both by government and private sectors. Among these are low levels of community capacity accompanied by post war trauma- needs that have been neglected for a long time.

Food Security and Technical Training

Solar Dryers, Dry Cards, PICS Bags.
With the implementation of low-cost technologies such as solar driers, Dry Cards to identify the correct moment to store food and PICs bags that keep insects from ruining the harvest, AWE can increase food security to families and enable them to sell their products in the off-season, enabling them to increase their income.

Psychosocial Support

Skills, Motherhood, Community.
Most of the northern Uganda community is still recovering from insurgency and many in the community especially the women and girls lack skills as well as hope and encouragement. In particular the child mothers/youth who are parents already at their young age constitute a sector which is generally rated to be doing badly in the region. Psychosocial support activities are emphasized together with the common traditions of the region such as ‘wang-oo’ (evening bonfires) in a manner that restores the values of motherhood, family and community support structures and the family as a whole.

Partnerships

Partnering with Rotary International

AWE receives funding through valued local and international partnerships, including:

Rotary International (with partners, Kitgum Rotary, Uganda, and Beaverton Rotary, USA.)

Fund to Benefit Women Farmers of Northern Uganda: The Fund to Benefit Women Farmers of Northern Uganda is a 501c3 created in the US as a partner to AWE. All donations to the Fund to Benefit Women Farmers of Northern Uganda benefit AWE.

The Women’s Empowerment Compound

Currently under construction in Gulu, the walled AWE Women’s Empowerment Compound will eventually house a grain storage building, a training center, and a communal bakery/store.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has estimated that, worldwide, 10-30% of crops are lost between harvest and reaching the consumer. Losses are mostly due to damage by insects.

 

– Joyce Lockard, Beaverton Rotary Club, USA

PICS storage bags, developed by Purdue University, prevent insect damage during storage. They have double layer of airtight plastic bags and an outer cloth bag for protection. Insects eating grain in the bags will suffocate when all the oxygen is used up because no new air can enter the bag.

 

– Joyce Lockard, Beaverton Rotary

Dry Cards, developed at the Unversity of California, Davis, are a simple moisture detector that prevent toxic mold from destorying a crop.

 

– Victor Novak, Califor Agro Ltd.

With funding from Rotary International, these simple technologies, out of reach in the past, will now improve food security and financial stability for these families.

Needed: Makiga Soil Block Press

Needed: Makiga Soil Block Press

A great need for AWE is to get one or more presses like this Makiga soil block press, to make stabilized soil blocks to build water storage tanks. An incredible amount of water will come off the roof of the planned grain storehouse, and the current design plans...

Need For Three Bicycles

Need For Three Bicycles

Three Gulu University students who are in their final terms before graduating with Bachelor’s degrees in Agriculture are doing their senior projects as interns at AWE.  The first to come was a young man named Morrus, who got...

The Compound is Secure!

The Compound is Secure!

Thank you to the women of Portland Yacht Club, Oregon! In December of 2022, the iron gates planned to secure the compound were in storage. Soaring Inflation had prevented last few feet of wall enclosing the compound from being built, and additional structural work...

Skills Training

Skills Training

AWE continues to empower the Women and the girls and its members with skills training since this is the form of non formal education that is short term and also empowers them to start  with an IGA  to help their families. The women farmers benefit a lot especially in...

Support for Mothers

Support for Mothers

Most of the northern Uganda community is still recovering from insurgency and many in the community especially the women and girls lack skills as well as hope and encouragement. In particular the child mothers/youth who are parents already at their young age...

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