YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP SCHEME- SCHOOL FARM CAMP 8TH – 12TH AUGUST, 2014 Held at GAYAZA HIGH SCHOOL Theme: Empowering the Youth to Practice Scientific Approaches in Agriculture as an Entrepreneurship Venture Within Their Schools and Communities. Gayaza High School organised a five-day farm camp which brought together 162 students and 53 teachers across the country to […]
We have worked with them for almost two months and taught each other a number of skills that should make us more useful citizens within our communities. The results for the National Primary Leaving Examinations were released yesterday and we pray for our participants that they may get placement in good secondary schools. We have
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This week the temperatures have been low and we have received some rains. Thus we have moved on to plant all our seedlings and all our plots are full. Thanks to Dr.Robinah Sonko who has provided the seedlings and the technical expertise. The children are regaining their hope for a reasonable harvest now that they
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This week we have embarked on a discussion about our main objective of reducing on the rate at which children drop out of school in Uganda.Uganda is said to have the highest school dropout rate in East Africa- http://www.mnnonline.org/news/uganda-has-highest-school-drop-out-rate-in-east-africa Starting with our own members undertaking this project we want to make sure that they all
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This turned out to be one of my best days in our project work. We set out to film our agricultural play and creative dance as planned two weeks ago. In the morning we started with our usual activity of watering our gardens and the children were in high spirits since we were to travel
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Our Music, dance and drama classes are ongoing and very interesting. They have made us friendlier to each other and a lot of creativity is being exhibited by the youngsters trying to reflect on what they do in the garden work in order to build the play. We will be recording our Agricultural play on
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Thank God it rained the whole night and we assumed that our plants were receiving the rain in the same amounts. To our surprise it looked like just a drizzle had reached our gardens but this was at least something. We have seedlings to put into the ground but we can only take a step
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The rate of activities in our garden has gone low because of the hot weather we are experiencing. We cannot put any new seedlings in the ground since our greatest challenge is now water. The children are continuing to develop their love for the gardens and are enjoying every single bit of their time. Yesterday
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Today we continued with our Nutrition programme where we follow up the food from the garden to the table. We had chance to learn from two of our parents and one teacher all members of the Gayaza High School fraternity about the traditional foods from Eastern Uganda. It was a joy to learn how to
Disease/pest Attack Record Pest Name: Bean fly or bean stem maggot Vector: Housefly Symptoms · Yellow blotches on the leaves · Swelling and splitting of the stem · Development of adventitious roots due to reduced number of lateral roots · Maggots (yellow in color) and pupae (brown or black in color) can often be seen
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