Capacity Building Programme

BUVAD has programmes set up to diversify community sources of income from sources that are currently unprofitable. These include the distribution of zero grazer cattle, pigs, goats, and poultry, distribution of sunflower seeds to every farmer in Kayunga Sub County interested in participating in the Sunflower oil co-op, conducting training workshops in improved agricultural skills, encouraging the creation of community craft making associations for women and surveying markets for these products, encouraging the formation of village based Savings and Credits schemes that will promote internal community savings and favourable lending terms to community members, and training community members in vocational skills that will help them produce more profitable commodities and services to the larger markets existing in areas outside the villages.

BUVAD intends to set up a well furnished community vocational skills training centre that shall train community members in the following trades: Tailoring, Sewing, Embroidery, Crafts, Home economics, Catering, Cookery, Metal fabrication, Electrical installation, Carpentry, Brick laying and concrete practice, Music Dance and Drama, Art and Design, Hair dressing, English as a Second Language, basic business skills and any other skills the community expresses interest in.

Current training occurs at the Butakoola Village volunteer centre and, when practical, out in the community.

BUVAD currently seeks short or long-term volunteers interested in setting up training classes of any type.  The community talks openly about the need for workshops and has greatly welcomed those that have occurred in the past.  This is a significant service you might offer the community.  Please see our volunteer page for more details.

For information on how you might contribute livestock under this programme, greatly increasing their stability and income, please see our donation page.