UgaIrish Project

UgaIrish Project exists to support and encourage Ugandan communities to be in a position to provide for themselves through sustainable enterprise the basic needs of life – education, health, food and accommodation.

The Project was founded by Siobhán Kinsella when she visited Kamuzinda Children’s Village in 2006. She saw the benefit in helping the locals establish a farm school to teach the less academic students the skills of sustainable farming and at the same time provide food for the orphans in the village. Now in it’s 5th year, the Farm School is suppling vegetables, grains, flour, milk and eggs for the orphans. The Project is managed by Apollo Saku and is worked by the teachers and students from the Farm School.

Our main short-term objective is for the farm to become self sufficient and independent and for it to have enough income to sustain the entire village. With the new chicken project, which so far has 2000 chickens, and the increase of pork production these objectives will soon materialise. However, the farm still needs the regular support of sponsors, volunteers and donations to enable the projects to keep moving forward.

Another area in which we’ve identified a need is for special needs children. At the moment, UgaIrish Project responds to situations of unmanaged disability by providing support for families and individuals, including full-time residential care. However, the set-up of a specialised disability unit in southern Uganda is a priority for UgaIrish Project to allow its central purpose to be realised, to support whole communities. Establishing sustaining enterprises to support the ongoing running of this unit will allow justified Ugandan pride of their care of society’s neediest.