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The Nile Excellence Annual Awards, a national recognition platform celebrating innovation and excellence across Uganda, have crowned Kairamirwa Doreen King, Executive Director of Slum Women Initiatives for Development (SWID), as the Innovator of the Year under the Eastern Region category. The award was presented during the inaugural Nile Excellence Annual Awards ceremony, held on 28th […]
Slum woman’s initiative for development trains trainers of trainees picked by the grassroots women from the different groups they represent to act as agents of change. These TOTS support the organization to pass on knowledge and information as well as grassroot women’s groups; To continue member trainings with in their groups To enhance team […]
CASSAVA PESTS AND DISEASES AFFECTING YIELDS IN BUSOGA SUB REGION A BIG THREAT TO FOOD SECURITY. Pests and Diseases is one of the major challenges affecting cassava growing in the Busoga sub region. This has caused poor yields leading to hunger and low living standards, cassava being a drought resistant crop that many families in […]
AGRASSROOT WOMAN SMALL HOLDER FARMER NOW PARTICIPATING IN TRADE, VALUE CHAIN AND VALUE ADDITION. Nangobi Jovia From Kaliro District, Nansololo subcounty Kyisa Kyamukama farmers group. Am a small holder farmer appreciating SWID and the sponsors for the awareness and knowledge about cassava value addition and trade. Today I grow cassava with my group members harvest […]
Grassroot women participation in the climate change fight Human beings co- exist with nature, we receive oxygen from trees and we give them Carbon dioxide, cutting trees is like cutting off our life. Human beings are the man cause of climate change through their actions. Humans and wild animals face new challenges for survival because […]
Slum Women’s Initiative for Development acknowledges the grant fund from African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF ) Towards ; Equiping 100 women community paralegals with skills and knowledge to break barriers to gender inequality and challenges women/girls are facing relating to land access and ownership of land. Raising awareness for women and […]
Empowering women to own land in Jinja City. Slum Women’s Initiative for Development acknowledges grant support from African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF ) towards implementing a one year project entitled “promoting women and girls rights to own land in Jinja southern Division in Jinja City Uganda”. The project goal is raising awareness on women and girls […]
Due to the effects of the pandemic and lock down, grassroots women are highly strike with hunger, poverty and loss of business, property and life. SWID took 40 grassroots women from the District of Kamuli kagumba subcounty, kaliro Town Council,Gadumile, Nansololo and Jinja walukuba to kadama on a PEER LEARNING EXCHANGE to learn from the […]
Peer to Peer learning between SWID grassroots women and the grassroots women of Kawempe Home Based Care Alliance. 20 women leaders participated. The aim of the peer exchange is to learn best practices and transfer to new communities. 20 grassroots women from SWID had a peer to peer learning with Kawempe Home Based Care Alliance. […]
REDUCING ON THE USE OF FIREWOOD SWID Availed 100 households with environmentally friendly energy saving cooking stoves. These help reduce on pollution, reduce health issues like respiratory diseases due to reduced smoke, help in the fight to protect trees from being cut for charcoal, they are income saving because in Uganda electricity and gas is […]