Uganda

Uganda has had one of the strictest lockdowns in Africa with only essential businesses functioning, dusk-to-dawn curfews, and bans on transportation. In addition to the coronavirus, Kasese, Uganda has been devastated by flooding.

Concerns and Challenges

Due to the lockdown and flooding, Foundation for Women’s Dignity (FOWODI) has had trouble reaching their beneficiaries as they were only able to travel by motorcycle.

As with many of our partners, FOWODI has seen that food was in high demand. Now, due to the displacement of so many from the floods, food supplies are essential.

Emergency Fund

Rockflower’s Emergency Fund aid has supported FOWODI’s community and beneficiaries by supplying food and introducing a Seed to Life program.

The food supplied per beneficiary included: 10 kg of high quality processed maize flour (totaling 400 kg for 40 women), 2 kg of soya milk powder (80 kg total) and a variety of fresh fruits.

The Seed to Life program is fulfilling a gap in the lack of vegetable farming in the community. FOWODI beneficiaries were supplied with vegetable seeds to begin their own kitchen gardens for sustenance and market consumption. So far, 100 tins of different vegetable seeds were purchased and distributed to 48 households in the Kasese district.

Food distribution to a FOWODI beneficiary