AWE News
Grain Storehouse Finished!
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...
Maize Yield Improves with Training
MAIZE YIELDS FOR THE 2022 MAIN SEASON CROP GROWN IN SIX VILLAGES IN OMORO DISTRICT BY WOMEN FARMERS WHO HAD BEEN TRAINED IN BETTER FARMING METHODS FOR SIX MONTHS BY A ROTARY INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT RESULTS: Comparison of maize yields for two main season...
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
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...
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
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...
Harvest, Fall 2022
Most of the harvesting of the main season crop has been completed and drying is being done. Christine reported that, as usual at every harvest and because the storehouse has not been built, the women farmers have had to sell off their crops from the main season as...
Wall update
First, news of the wall. The cement structures on which the big gates will hang in the front and back end of the wall and the farm store need to cure for three months before the gates can be installed, according to the contractor. Christine and the guards pour water...