Mughende Women Farmers Association (MUWOFA)

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Mughende Women Farmers Association (MUWOFA) started in the year 1997 by the group of 30 women as founders. The association started with an aim to fight poverty among members and even in entire community of Munkunyu sub county through savings and credit, tree planting, sustainable agriculture, and domestic violence prevention.

Vision: A poverty free society.

Mission: To have rural women engaged in the quality/ quantity production of food/ cash crops for food security and increased income.

Aims and objectives:
• To engage member of the community to promote sustainable agriculture for increased food security and income.
• To sensitize the community on HIV/AIDS and domestic violence prevention
• To involve the community in tree planting.
• To involve our members in savings and credit scheme.
• Care and support of children and elderly.

Activities:
• Teaching women how to grow healthy food was the association's first activity. They focus on small-scale horticulture; the sustainable, organic cultivation of vitamin-rich vegetables such as cabbage and eggplant. During training vegetable gardening, women learn to work a piece of land in a natural way. The vegetables are for personal use and for sale on the market.
• Muwofa's target group consists of vulnerable women in the wider region around the city of Kasese: orphan girls, girls with a disability, pregnant teenagers, early school leavers, victims of domestic violence, single mothers and widows, together around 3000 women. Muwofa encourages the women to develop and offers help and a safe place.
• Training courses in carpentry, breeding dairy goats, plumbing, beekeeping, fish farming, shoemaking, manufacturing liquid soap and bars of soap, making clothes, sewing covers for motorcycle saddles and car seats, making bags and belts, welding, basket weaving, accounting, catering, electronics and art and design.

Kyakimwa Miria is the Secretary of Mughende Women Farmers Association (MUWOFA).

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