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Include any relevant links showing your financial history", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We shall use the funds for building infrastructure for the skilling center to train more youths, school dropouts and women.\n\nAYOWECCA UGANDA\u2019s wide range of programs provide support in some of the poorest and most underprivileged communities in Uganda, East Africa. Since AYOWECCA UGANDA is community founded, our activities are community based to benefit the local people facing both social and environmental challenges. In addition to our agroforestry work, we are opening a skills training center for women and girls, and also young people, that will include Web3 onboarding and computer literacy as well as training for tailoring, catering and salon services. \nThe categories of women who need vocational skills interventions are those who are school dropouts,women, widows and those who face extreme poverty, especially related to HIV/AIDS, Conflicts/wars, Politics, among others. Women and girls are in dire need of basic needs and supplementary benefits as Ugandans. These service points can hence be used to create opportunities to the target group who are in communities.The vocational skills and empowerment project is not clearly established to women, school dropouts, widows and orphans due to communities referring them as unfit, and rejects when it comes to inclusion in such projects.\n\nAYOWECCA UGANDA Community vocational Skills Training Project is one of the programs that will be established to address psychosocial and economic problems among women, school dropouts, widows and orphans in Tororo and nearby areas. Our main focus is to protect natural resources, adaptation to climate change, conservation, skills development and empowering women and children. we are currently under plan of implementing a community skilling center activity in Tororo by February 2024.Through trainings, target groups will be taught different skills in Carpentry, briquette and Paper bag making,plastic recycling, Environment management, Sewing and Tailoring(making reusable sanitary towels, Bricklaying concrete and Practice, Leather Tanning, Hand Craft training ,promoting technologies through Computer training, Plumbing, Mechanics and Party Decoration, Hair dressing among others. After their training, they are expected to be able to produce good quality products leading to increase in Gross Domestic product and profitability. Secondly they will be able to effectively work in their village settings able to create jobs among themselves.\nWe will use funding from this grant to support and facilitate these  onboarding, education and advocacy efforts. build a hall for skills training, With your help, we can improve the Web3 ecosystem to be more inclusive and equitable, and to bring the  capabilities and benefits of blockchain technology to vulnerable populations who need it the most.", "hidden": false, "question": "If accepted, how will you use the funds from this round?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Do you agree to give at least one written or video update by January 1st, 2025 to declare how the funds have been used?", "questionId": 6}], "project": {"id": "0x6313c54d9811409f7515658600078f28b48a93284e70ae5114e1c63f0d5cc091", "title": "AYOWECCA UGANDA", "logoImg": "bafkreibwhctqeeikwkq7kuuyitcwkugzh3tdompjumej2bwikjrbi43l7e", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreic27vpmmiu56h2m64u7bzdxdxul7oqtugarj5q6fu3hwf4mafjkvq", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://info@ayoweccauganda.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreihbdrjspenxbcodiiyvn5zhw5lszmfotbfwgozsy4rxafcxd3h2yi", "createdAt": 1729591156167, "credentials": {}, "description": "## Overview\nAYOWECCA UGANDA is a community led NGO in Tororo, East Uganda. At AYOWECCA UGANDA, we train rural farmers on regenerative agricultural methods/smart agriculture that are environmentally sustainable, map agricultural practices in carbon credits, promote agroforestry and permaculture where farmers can plant fruit trees besides growing food or cash crops and learn how to make organic manure and pesticides.\n\n![planting](https://i.ibb.co/mNqG0rB/5814514171591641206.jpg)\n\nWe also have a charity which works in our local communities to mobilize climate change awareness and education, crypto education, tree planting and wetlands and peatland restoration campaigns, workshops, storytelling, giving seeds to farmers, etc.\n\nWith funds we got from a previous donation round, we were able to buy tailoring and hairdressing machines that we used for starting a skilling center... That we receiving overwhelming number of 678 women and girls\n\n## Update on our Achievements\n1213 rural farmers and community members trained on regenerative/smart agricultural methods, onboarded into web3, sensitized and educated on the impacts of climate climate change\n34,000+ fruit trees have been planted in 105 schools and 73 health centers\n8 wetlands have been restored\n683 women and girls are undertaking the skills training on both tailoring and hairdressing\n3,000+ children receive scholastic materials every year\n1067 girls and women have been trained on making reusable sanitary towels\n\n![givingscholasticmaterials](https://i.ibb.co/nMtp8TB/5814514171591641177.jpg)\n\n##Please support\nFor this donation round, we request that with your support, we can create a thriving community training/skilling center and demonstration farm to help our community adapt to the escalating impacts of climate change. We seek to build climate resilience for rural, low-income communities with a focus on women, families and youth. Your support will also help us plant more fruit trees in schools, health centers and churches. Our training space is small and we would like to get a bigger place in order to help more people, and also to be able to pay additional facilitators. Our vision is that by next year, many of our Supporters can visit our farm and recommend interns for our organization.\n\n![teachingaboutclimate](https://i.ibb.co/fQQGkrB/5814272734300063036.jpg)\n\nAt Ayowecca Uganda, we believe the time to act is now to safeguard not only the natural heritage of Tororo, Eastern Uganda, but also the health, prosperity, and resilience of its communities in the frontlines affected by the climate crisis. We invite you to join us in making a difference to the lives of those who really need it.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "ayowecca_uganda"}, "recipient": "0x0d0c0941e2578da2b9E2Ad03619615f7EeBc48f7"}}