From 2012 to 2016, the Mount Elgon Coffee and Honey Cooperative employed beekeeping to help coffee-growing households in the Mount Elgon region combat poverty and the effects of climate change. Through the establishment of a Community Based Trainer (CBBT) extension model for dispersing skills and knowledge to model farmers who then transfer the acquired skills …
M/s Elizabeth Feleke, the Chief Program Officer at USADF, commissioned the recently constructed coffee factory at Central Coffee Farmers Association (CECOFA) in Kampala, Uganda.
Ronald Buule, the Executive Director of the Central Coffee Farmers Association (CECOFA), explains to Elizabeth Feleke, the Chief Program Officer at USADF, the different grades of coffee at the CECOFA Coffee Roster in Kampala, Uganda.
To officially open the recently constructed coffee processing factory that USADF supported, a team of Washington-based USADF staff members traveled to the Central Coffee Farmers Association (CECOFA) in Uganda. CECOFA purchases coffee from smallholder farmers processes it, and ships it to Europe and the US. Elizabeth Feleke, Magret Koskinen, Brandi James, and Gileo Jeff were …
UDET receives the 2018 Best Anglophone Country Program Award from Jeff T. Gilleo, Regional Portfolio Manager at USADF.
Mrs. Joan Rutaroh was awarded a long service award by the United States Africa Development Foundation, and Jeff Gilleo, the regional portfolio manager, presented it to her. She spent 31 years working for USADF in various roles, first as the Country Program Representative and then as the Program Director of the Uganda Development Trust.
In July 2017, Mobile Scan Solutions (MSAN) Ltd was established and registered. The company offers MSCAN portable and affordable ultrasonography equipment that runs on a laptop or tablet to identify risk factors for maternal mortality in pregnant mothers in hard-to-reach places with inadequate resources. The MSCAN probe uses its portability, accessibility, and improved connectivity to …
Uganda Development Trust provided business development services and technical assistance to Tusafishe Limited, a USADF grantee, providing safe drinking water to 6,150 school-going children in the Nebbi District. Tusafishe was created in June 2017 as a social enterprise with the purpose of eliminating water-borne diseases in large vulnerable populations by building ecologically friendly community water …
Jacob Bubolo, aged 49 years, lives in Pakele Town Council, Adjumani. He managed a produce shop at Pakele Town Council before the recent COVID-19 pandemic, but the business was forced to close down during the lockdown. He decided to start growing tomatoes, starting with Red Creole and the Rio Grande varieties. When he found out …
The ever-rising cost of Poultry Feed is a high risk to the Poultry Industry in Uganda. M/s Destiny Farms Limited (Destiny Farms) is an Out-Grower Farm that supplies Ready-To-Eat Broiler Chicken to M/s Ugachick Limited with a capacity to grow and supply 30,000 Broiler Chickens every 8 Weeks. However, the exorbitant cost of feed almost …
