Christmas Events that focused on Our Saviour Jesus Christ.
It was a Jesus Christ gospel centric celebration 🎉 in reminiscing the feeding of the thousands according to the biblical story. Like our style of lifting hands up. A simple unusual charity based organisation in Tororo Uganda celebrated Christmas with children, their parents, and elderly in Tororo Uganda in unprecedented styles.
Anthony Othieno and family, supported by Karen Barrett and Sharon Hills, in a "Help Us Feed More Children" and get them into school programs, that has been in existence in a long while in Tororo Town.
The group believes that a good meal can attract children to the classroom, get education, and become useful to their society. Karen and Sharon in the USA including a few highly spirited friends make consistent donations to encourage poor children in parts of Tororo Uganda, get education, clothing, and learn in a conducive environment.
At Christmas 2024, these families, residents of a small community of Tororo chose to celebrate their Christmas in style, beginning with eating and drinking, away from the usual prayer style of old, as Anthony extended the hands of goodwill fellowship incredibly beyond the wildest imaginations of the lowest cast of the oldies in the community.
Tororo District is located in Eastern Uganda. It borders the Republic of Kenya to the East, Bugiri District to the West, Butaleja to the North and Busia.
The Adhola people, also known as Jopadhola, are a Nilotic ethnic group of Luo peoples that live in Tororo District of Eastern Uganda and comprise about eight percent of the country's total population.
They speak Dhopadhola, (a Luo language), which belongs to the Western Nilotic branch of the Nilotic language family. The predominantly agrarian community, of farmers and food merchants, whose income per capita is grossly inadequate to keep families resources-fully sustainable, most widely harvested crop in Tororo by area was Coffee with 8.39k ha harvested with a total production value of Intl $5.57M.
Among children in Eastern, Uganda in 2011, 8% were severely stunted, 2% were severely underweight, and 1% were severely wasted. Anthony and the team constantly ensure the children are well fed, and stay strong at school
As of 2013, there were 12.82M people living below $1.90/day (2011 PPP) and 22.86M people living below $3.10/day (2011 PPP) in Uganda.
In 2002, the national census put the population of the town of Tororo at 34,810. In 2010, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) estimated the population at 42,500. In 2011, UBOS estimated the mid-year population at 43,700. The 2014 national population census put the population at 41,906, population of this municipality grew at an average annual rate of 2.5 percent, between 2015 and 2020.
Challenge
The problem the project is addressing is food insecurity, hunger, poverty and education. The main economic activity of the people in this area is farming, which is growing crops such as coffee, maize,rice,soya beans ground nuts, don't return adequate yield sufficient to stabilise the family farming household income.
The people are still using a hand hoe which is labour intensive and it makes them produce very little food. In addition to that, they grow low quality seeds which also makes them produce poor yields, since they produce little, they are forced to sell part of harvests early to raise income, to support self, children and households chores.
Solution
Providing home feeding services to their siblings at school, and improved agro-produce marketing to the disadvantaged people will enable them to have increased crop production by 80%.
This will enable them to have enough for consumption and surplus for sale. They will have food security and development.
A collaboration with lifting hands up is incorporating in the new year 2025.
https://iceliftinghands.carrd.co
Long-Term Impact
The project will provide portable plough services and improved seeds for planting for 100 disadvantaged people enabling them to come out of poverty, have food security and attain a significantly remarkable better standard of living and improved health.
Together we can do it, if we build the courage and strong desire to achieve success.
