According to the food basket costs estimates for 16 households in Lango Sub-Region that we made during our training, five households did not include fruits in their food items for an entire month. This is possible because people do not…
Tag: Poverty
Poverty is a State of Mind
Whatever the language, the first thing that they would say: “we are poor.” Everybody says: “we are poor, give us something, we are poor.” I walked in the rural areas of Teso. You know, there is some place called Toroma…
Money is not good for poor people
I was the one responsible for NUSAF (Northern Uganda Social Action Fund) in the whole of Uganda. They said: “here is the loan, make them rich.” A difficult task. “NUSAF is a government (initiative) with $100 million of funding from the World…
Ending poverty eludes us
The first goal that formed the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger from the world and within a 15-year period that ended in 2015. Specifically, the target was to reduce by 50…
Gender and Poverty in Lango
We Cause Our Poverty The majority of the population in Uganda live in the rural areas. The people in the rural areas in Lango are mostly considered to be poor. Growing up as a child in a rural area of…
Poverty Problem Trees
Poverty problem trees are truly a powerful tool for analysing and appreciating poverty. And each time one uses them well, it is likely that they will learn something new. For example, this was the case two weeks ago when I…
Poverty Mind Maps
"Who dares to teach must never cease to learn"John Cotton Dana. This was my experiential learning a couple of weeks ago as I facilitated a session on "Conceptions and Measurement of Poverty", under the sub-topic: "What is Poverty", under Module…
