Q. What is Kira Farm Training Centre?

A. Kira Farm is Amigos 22.5 acre demonstration farm and unique vocational training centre. Alongside a comprehensive Farming syllabus, we also train in Home Economics, Tailoring, basic Maths and English, Health & Hygiene, First-Aid and a variety of relevant life skills. 

Q. Why Kira Farm?

A. Because 35% of Ugandan primary aged children drop out of school before the opportunity to reach higher education.   Most Ugandan young people either own land or have accesses to land. Amigos believe this is a great starting point for their future existence.  

Q. Where is Kira Farm?

A.  Kira Farm is located 14 miles north of Kampala, near a little town called Gayaza, (Wakiso District) Uganda.

Q. Who is Kira Farm for?

A. Kira Farm has been designed to train disadvantaged (orphaned) Ugandan teenagers, mainly young woman at this stage but as it's grows we hope to take young men also.

Q. What does Amigos hopes to achieve?

A.  Amigos aims 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, becoming the next generation of Mothers and Fathers.

Become a ‘friend of Kira' for a small monthly donation you can directly ensure that many orphaned young people will benefit from this unique and life-changing opportunity. Amigos is looking for 600 people to donate £1 a week or 300 people to donate £2 a week so 40 young people each year can receive and education at Kira Farm.

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The Site

Buildings constructed to date include:

Roads, Water and Plants

Electricity has been brought overland; roads and fencing established; water security via a well and borehole; fruit and pine trees planted alongside many varieties of crops:

Fish Lakes

Four 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 4000 catfish (a delicacy in Africa).   Catfish take between 10 to 12 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 train in the skills of fish farming, but we can also apply a healthy feeding programme at Kira from this highly nutritious source.  We are also looking to sell into the local market so that each lake will become totally self-funding.

Nets are placed over the fish lakes to protect from herons, kingfishers and fish eagles to name but a few flying predators hoping to get a free meal!

Chickens

Chickens are an important part of Kira Farm for two reasons. Between 2,000 and 4,000 parent laying stock are permanently housed for egg incubation purposes. The farm poultry project sells thousands of one-day-old chicks into the Ugandan market each week, which in return helps towards running costs. Every African loves chickens so teaching poultry management is a very important part of Kira.