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: Kira Farm Training Centre :

Work your garden – you’ll end up with plenty of food;
Play and party – you’ll end up with an empty plate.
Proverbs 28 – 19 (The Message)
Kira Farm Training Centre
Kira Farm is our planned vocational training centre for young people, now taking shape about 12 miles north of Kampala, in the Guyaza area. Alongside a comprehensive farming syllabus we will also be offering training in life skills. This is because many young Ugandan orphans have missed out on normal family life, have little understanding of basic health, hygiene, nutrition and the simple tasks of everyday life. We aim to build confidence, honesty and faithfulness into these young lives so that they will become upright, trustworthy and self-reliant citizens as they return to their various communities.

The Site

After viewing a number of sites, Amigos secured an area of 22.5-acres of prime farmland in the Guyaza region in mid-2004. Since then, under the guidance of our Project Manager, Patrick Okonye, the access route has been purchased. Fencing is complete and all the land is now cleared, tree stumps removed and termite hills flattened and treated.
Kira Farm Site

Buildings have been constructed, the first comprising a large secure store for tools, cement etc., a guard house and office, and the second a small toilet block (pit latrine).

Four of the planned eight 25m x 50m fish lakes have been dug with one of our two streams diverted to keep fresh water feeding them. The lakes have been stocked with around 8000 tilapia and catfish (a delicacy in Africa). Tilapia takes around 10 months to mature and the stocking of lakes will be staggered to give a constant harvest of fresh fish around the year. Not only can we begin to train a generation in the skills of fish farming, but we can also implement a feeding programme from this highly nutritious source. We are also looking to sell into the local market so that each lake will become totally self-funding.
Six large poultry houses have been built and stocked with parent layers and broiler chickens. The incubation of one-day-old chicks will help the self-sustaining concept of Kira. It’s hoped that we can build our own hatchery to develop selling chickens into the growing Ugandan market as well as gifting returning (trained) orphans with small rural poultry projects.
Click to see a video of the well dig - it will take a little while to load.

Electricity has been brought overland and installed. The creation of our own healthy, fresh, clean water supply by digging a well and setting up a pumping station is also up and running. Each building will eventually have its own water tank gathering rainwater from its roofs.

To see a video (38.8 Mb - about 3 mins to download!) of the well being dug, please click the well picture.
eMi (Engineering Ministries International) have helped plan the whole site, making sure that each facility is positioned in the right area: these range from farm buildings and vocational workshops to students' and teachers' accommodation. It will eventually include a guesthouse for visitors to spend time and share their practical skills and knowledge with the trainees. We hope to have the training centre sufficiently completed to begin taking a small number of students in 2008.
Bricks are dug straight from the clay soil and are incredibly tough after baking. They cost about 2p each, cement cost £7 per bag! A skilled bricklayer and labourer earn about £3.50 between them per day. We will need thousands of bricks to complete Kira, so for an on-going donation of just a few pounds a month you can make a huge difference to the building of this unique facility.
With your help, this is what we have achieved so far:
     
  • purchased the 22.5 acre farm site
  • had the site surveyed and the project designed by eMi (Engineering Ministries International)
  • developed and graded an entrance road
  • installed electricity
  • dug a well to deliver 2,000 litres of clean water per hour
  • built six large chicken houses, a pit latrine, guardhouse and store
  • a pit latrine
  • a guardhouse
  • a store
  • excavated and stocked four large fish lakes 20m by 40m
  • widened the stream throughout the whole property to protect against flooding,
  • cleared and fenced all boundaries
  • planted fruit trees and crops.
  • built a headmasters house
  • built student accommodation
  • built girls toilet/washrooms

All this has been done completely by hand, using skilled Ugandan labour and materials, employing local villagers whenever possible.

We really do need your help.  Please click here.

To get Kira functioning with the first phase of 20 students we will need to raise around £20,000 over the next 12 months.   We need to complete this important phase in order to start training orphans and other needy young Ugandans in 2008.  We will need to raise a further £70,000 in building costs to get Kira running at full capacity of 60+ students per year. 

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You may never know the results that come from your actions, but if you do nothing there will be no result!

Gandhi

 

 
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Amigos Worldwide is a registered Charity/NGO both in the UK and Uganda.

Amigos Worldwide, Registered in England, Company Number 6122350, Registered Charity Number 1119450, Registered Office 1 Howard Avenue, Barnstaple, Devon, England EX32 8QA

(Amigos International and Amigos are working names of Amigos Worldwide)