Various Projects

Soroti Workshop

Category: Various Projects
Created: 12 November 2016
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Generally Soroti town in Uganda accommodates mostly internally displaced refugees who had run away from the Lord’s Army in northern Uganda and those who had been displaced by the Karimonja cattle rustlers in the 1980’s and 1990’s.  With the high unemployment rate and overwhelming poverty among the local residents, a skills training program to the local youths in carpentry skills with a local carpentry trainer was started in 2014. True Grasses has been involved in this workshop since the beginning and has been overseeing the work done. Since early this year (feb 2016), the centre now runs completely under the NGO; it is now called Soroti Youth Skills Centre. The centre equips youths with woodwork skills, business and enterprenuer skills for one year and after graduation they can start their own wood workshops or be employed in the local community as carpenters.

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Moshi PiF update

Category: Various Projects - PiF
Created: 07 June 2016
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True Grasses micro credit program called PiF (pay it forward) started operating in Tanzania in 2014 in Kilimanjaro region, benefiting two families that received  interest free in kind loans of pigs to help them come out of poverty, support their families and become self-sufficient.

These two families have each been able to pay forward to other families as the pigs have been able to multiply. The impact seen in these families is that they are able to support their families through meeting the education needs of their children and some have improved their living conditions of their homes through acquisition of better houses piggery farming. 


Soroti Youth Carpentry Skilling Project

Category: Various Projects
Created: 02 April 2015
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Through the partnership with True Grasses, OM Switzerland has been supporting the Soroti Carpentry Skilling Project in Uganda. We are grateful that they have supported the project with finances that was used to purchase carpentry tools to ease work at the workshop. Thanks to Ernst and his team, with their continued trust and heart to this project, the project now trains a couple of youth on hands-on skills and employs five people permanently.

 

 


Piggery & Poultry

Category: Various Projects - PiF
Created: 24 March 2015
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Community Builders Canada and Anhart Foundation Canada, through the Pay-it-Forward program gave True Grasses various micro credit grants to help the people in Kilimanjaro Region. Eric and Ernst were selected by the local church and both received two piglets each. Amba received a grant to enhance her poultry business. With this they will start a journey to self sufficiency as they create jobs for themselves and increase their household incomes. All will be monitored with the help of MCF church in Moshi.