Girls Kick It Chicken Project (Gweno Project) - Uganda

Girls Kick It Chicken Project (Gweno Project) - Uganda

Summary

Girls Kick It aims to develop a poultry micro-enterprise, that will be manged by girls and women living in the Paicho community within the Gulu District of Northern Uganda.

The business will simultaneously provide management training for the girls and women who will manage the micro-enterprise in order to achieve long-term, locally-run sustainable economic opportunity.

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What is special about your idea? What is your differential?

As a locally run, non-governmental organization and project Girls Kick It hopes to establish public-private partnerships in order to expand our micro-finance projects.

Creating relationships with local private sector (i.e. small business owners) who are looking to purchase poultry and other local agri-goods can go a long way in sharing best practices and in reaching the goals of the our "Gweno Project."

Ultimately, this approach could reduce the dependency of Girls Kick It on donors from outside of Uganda, and forging strong allies within Uganda for the long-term. We also see these relationships as great way to convey the power of sport to the local business community who would see the impact sports are having in the lives of young women in Northern Uganda.

Moreover, we would hope to further the partnerships with the local small businesses by including them in local and regional soccer tournaments as sponsors, participants, etc...

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Project By: Anna Phillips
Webpage: http://www.girlskickit.org/
Organisation: Global Youth Partnership for Africa, Girls Kick It
Country: Uganda

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