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3 June 2005
Snippets
The following are some achievements in Dakama ADP since October 2003:
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Pupils of Gulla Primary School enjoy
learning in their improved environment.
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Health and Sanitation
- Trained 18 village health workers and 18 traditional birth attendants.
- Held health clinics in five villages for 1,000 people.
- Educated five people in nutrition and malaria prevention and treatment.
- Trained 104 members of eight village health care committees.
- Promoted breastfeeding and hygienic feeding practices to 2,100 women.
- Provided insecticide-treated mosquito nets to all sponsored children.
HIV/AIDS
- Held three HIV/AIDS awareness meetings for 4,500 people.
- Supported two HIV/AIDS committees.
- Provided refresher training to 18 community counsellors.
- Took 11 pastors and community counsellors to Kagera on an educational trip.
- Identified 95 orphans and vulnerable children and supplied them with school uniforms, school fees and an insecticide-treated mosquito net.
- Celebrated World AIDS Day.
Education
- Constructed two classrooms and four teachers’ offices. Held 12 meetings to involve the community in construction.
- Trained 13 school management committees and 26 head teachers.
- Held refresher training seminars for 34 teachers.
- Provided 1,440 textbooks to students.
- Assisted 11 schools with mock exams.
- Held nine community meetings to promote the importance of educating girls.
- Supported 25 girls to attend school.
Infrastructure
- Held nine community meetings about well use and constructed a well.
Agriculture and food security
- Trained 210 farmers in improved agricultural practices.
- Held a three day vegetable growing workshop for 32 farmers.
- Provided 1.5 tonnes of improved sorghum seed and one tonne of improved maize seed to community farmers at a subsidised price.
- Provided 10 watering cans to vegetable growers.
- Trained 17 members of the women’s groups in food storage and preservation.
- Trained eight farmers to facilitate primary school environmental clubs.
Economic Development
- Trained 40 income generating activity groups in group dynamics, leadership, constitution, business discipline, finance and budgeting.
Leadership Development
- Held three community meetings about the establishment of a community-based organisation.
- Facilitated writing of a community-based organisation constitution and facilitated the registration procedures.
- Trained 8 community leaders in community management.
- Trained 42 community leaders in fundraising methods and running of committees.
- Trained 50 community leaders in transformational development theory.
- Took 40 community leaders on an educational trip to another ADP.
Justice
- Facilitated a sponsored child to attend a national children’s forum.
- Trained 16 members of children’s committees over three days.
Spiritual Development
- Facilitated training sessions for 16 church leaders.
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Dakama project profile
DAKAMA STORY ARCHIVE
2007
Conserving the future
Thanks from the heart!
Snippets
Counting down
2006
Achievements in Numbers
Good News from Dakama
Learning to farm
Healthy living
2005
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Through the eyes of an old man
Leading by example
2004
Snippets
Achievements to-date
2003
Then and now
Spreading the word
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