Manipulative calabash growing
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Uganda
Sua ideia
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Uganda
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Em que estágio está seu projeto?
Operating for 1-5 years
What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?
<$100
Dê um nome ao seu projeto
Manipulative calabash growing
Describe Your Idea
INOVAÇÃO
Describe your idea in fewer than 50 words.
Doodies and calabash fruits grow and develop very hard skins which can be used as containers when harvested.
My Idea is to shape the fruit (calabash) when it is still young and soft changing it natural shape to grow in a shape I like to make a hand bag , cabinet or housing for radio , Tv , camera or telephone.
What makes your idea unique?
The fruit takes artificial shape in the garden.
The fruits get value addition in the garden.
The fruits identify its final industrial products in the garden
The stems hold and feed the fruit, while I shape and manipulate the same fruit till it grows.
What is your area of work? (Please check as many as apply.)
Community development , Food security , Hunger , Rural development , Sustainable agriculture , Hunger , Indigenous cultures , Public Participation & Engagement , Cultural preservation .
What impact have you had?
The press have written and published pictures of finished handbags.
Fashionable women have bought some calabash handbags.
Describe the primary problem(s) that your project is addressing.
Plastic containers pollute the environment but now modern design calabash containers can be used.
Domestic violence children enjoying creative works in the garden without force labor.
Poverty alleviation
Indigenous crop market production
Natural containers and plants which face extinction can survive now
Describe the steps that your organization is taking to make your project successful.
Combining calabash with most wanted factory products. eg radio , tvs
Making unique designs for beauty queens.
Making golden finishing touches for dignitaries.
Impacto
What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Success in Year 1:
Concivincing more farmers to learn it from me.
Success in Year 2:
organize the MCG farmer’s group.
Success in Year 3:
Market and confirming group leadership
Do you have a business plan or strategic plan? (yes/no)
I have a strategic plan to fit these idea into international cultures for market.
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 1:
Making public exhibitions
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 2:
Inviting school to my garden and selling to teascher
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 3:
Improving designs and applying practiciable advices.
Describe the expected results of these actions.
The students will teach their parents to take up this farming and make our group bigger.
Visiting schools which have enough land can start this agricultural training
School dropouts may become farmers for a good living.
The government and other institutions may accept to put it in their development programs.
What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?
Design competition
Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.
I am the innovator , My name is Onesimu Kabuga - a Ugandan 59 years old I am a 3rd born of 5 children of Mr. Titus Mbaziira and Octavia Luyiga I am married to Mariya and have two children.
I am educated up Ordinary level (s.4) and I did not take a profession.
I have come up with more than 10 inventions and discoveries some which I train other people on my own.
I started a museum call “attitude change Museum” which is not yet well know.
I want to study computer lesions to access the internet by my budge hindrance
How did you first hear about Changemakers?
On radio from Mrs. Victoria Nyakundi.
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SUSTENTABILIDADE
What would prevent your project from being a success?
Lack of funding
Farmers do not want learn from common people who are not rich and popular.
I have never got a chance to get a funding as a leader doesn’t visit my works for fear I might beg them for funding.
If a new Idea is not magnificent people laugh it off.
Financing source
yes
If yes, provide organization name.
Iganga district farmers' association
How long has this organization been operating? (i.e. less than a year; 1-5 years; more than 5 years)
More than 5 years
Does your organization have a Board of Directors or an Advisory Board?
yes
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with NGOs? (yes/no)
yes
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses? (yes/no)
yes
A História
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with government? (yes/no)
yes
Please tell us more about how these partnerships are critical to the success of your innovation.
Information sharing and collaboration linkages
How many people will your project serve annually?
100-1000
What is the total number of employees and total number of volunteers at your organization?
7 full time and 7 community based trainees
What is your organization's business classification?
Non-profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
Have you received funding from any of the following groups? (Please check as many as apply.)
European Union (Any EU Government) , USAID (United States) , World Bank .
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