Improved water and green vegetable is recognized as a key lever to help people improve their living conditions: Modern farming technologies can not only help reduce households significant expenditures on food nutrition and water, but it also widens the scope of possible evening and early morning...Improved water and green vegetable is recognized as a key lever to help people improve their living conditions: Modern farming technologies can not only help reduce households significant expenditures on food nutrition and water, but it also widens the scope of possible evening and early morning activities, thereby promoting better educational outcomes, making domestic work easier and more efficient, encouraging social interactions, improving health, security, and enabling new income generating activities for better education, health and economic empowerment.
The lack of access to water and unreliable rainfall has affected education, health and livelihood standards in Nebbi Catholic Diocese. The decline in standards has adversely affected the life of the people as well as their faith. Poverty and diseases are on the increase and this has caused worries in the Diocesan authorities.
Further, too many children, women and youth are on the edge of survival. Weak with hunger, at risk of disease; mulnutrition, unemployment and homeless is the situation in which children, women and youth in Nebbi Catholic Diocese find themselves. However, in 2018 the Brothers of the Immaculate Heart of Mary opened a community in Nebbi Cathedral Parish with the aim of providing support by preventing and responding to gender-based violence, vocational skills and focusing on protecting vulnerable people, including women, youth and children.
The Brothers are also helping to provide people with the resources to create shelter and integrate into new communities, both inside Nebbi Catholic Diocese and in neighbouring Dioceses of Mahagi Nioka in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Arua Diocese, Lira Diocese and Gulu Arch Diocese in Uganda. To help the women, youth and children recover, the Brothers have set up a health Centre and Technical/Vocational Training Centre in Nebbi Cathedral Parish. Amidst all these achievements, the Community of the Brother is not connected to the national water system and this has made operations hard for the Brothers especially with machines and equipment in the Training Centre and health Centre that need water. It is upon this background that the brothers are now seeking for financial support to purchase and install irrigation system. The donation will help women, youth and children survive with life-saving services. Show more