Katutandike Uganda is the Inspirational Award winner of year 2013 in the Project Inspire. The aim of the project is to empower young women with disabilities through skills training on beekeeping and business literacy, and in turn help them get out of poverty.
Katutandike is a community based organization founded in 2006. The proposed project focuses on transforming the lives of disabled young women by providing the training on bee farming, on using the byproducts and selling the honey on the market along with skills of finance management. The women will be provided with bee hives to begin their entrepreneurship.
The women who are not able to move further away from their homes are provided the training that can help them grow into micro-entrepreneur by utilizing the time and space their own premises and access. With limited space, the disabled women and girls can farm bees and harvest honey. Valued for its health benefits, honey gets universal market, market generation is one of the core training elements offered to the participants.
The program benefits the disabled young women in various ways –
- Poverty reduction – Increase the income of disabled young women.
- Improvement of the young disabled women’s and their families’ well being.
- Boost their esteem and identity in society, the opportunities to make choices in their lives.
- Ability to sell the honey products confidently and effectively.
- Women Entrepreneurship.
Project team includes Susan Asio, Brian Mwiine and Gerald Kikoyo. Project is located in Masaka & Luwero Districts in Uganda. The disabled women and girls are the vulnerable group who usually do not have access to education because their parents are reluctant sending the disabled girl child to school. Also they become the victim of rape cases and become pregnant without their own will, which leads to more family burden. Katutandike Uganda asks the grant to bring back hope to the lives of the disabled women and girls in Uganda and prove to the world and prove disability is not inability.
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