Aged Care in Ojama

Good news to report from the SECODI community group: after a discussion about the needs of frail elderly living in their community, five of the women have decided to form a volunteer group. They will find out where all old people are living, particularly those not well supported by family members, and will wash their clothes and clean their houses once a month.  Voluntary service is not a common practice - indeed when I mentioned this to various Ugandan friends, they expressed total amazement! 

The community group has also decided to explore the concept of a small income generating project to produce and market reusable continence pads: one of their members has completed a tailoring course but none of them currently owns a treadle sewing machine.  Two donors in Australia, Edith & Tommy from Melbourne had just informed me, having read the blogspot, that they would like to contribute $500: this will be sufficient to purchase a treadle machine locally, and some of the set up materials required.  The group will be encouraged by me to undertake a SWOT analysis and do some market research before they set up this enterprise.

25.4.2010