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SPECIAL PROJECTS AT DAGO
1. Adult education for the elderly and youths of the community.
- Writing
- Reading
- Counting (mathematics)
Advantages
- Creates an opportunity to understand the changing times and feel modernized.
- Learn to budget and plan their incomes.
- For expansion of businesses purposes
- Understand the legal provision
2. Training and Educating the disabled kids and adults (Special education)
- Reading and Writing
- Simple small Business Skills.
- Farming skills
- How they can handle their disabled family membe
Advantages
- Help the disabled persons learn to be independent and even start a small business to help provide for their needs. Provide an opportunity to accept the disabled and understand them. It will give the families a chance to understand the causes of the disability.
- A chance to bring a smile to the faces of the disabled persons and feel as part of the community and for the people interested in studying different conditions have the chance
3. Horticulture project for the widows and elderly persons in the community and beyond.
- Help set up a communal seedling nursery for the project.
- Help them prepare a 30 by 30ft of land next to their house or garden for the families (Kitchen Garden).
- Help them plant the crops.
- Teach them on the basic skills of maintaining the farms and the crops
This will help every family have the basic daily food security and not depend on the help from others.
The foods would include tomatoes; onions; kales or cabbages; carrots; coriander; capsicums amongst other local vegetables etc.
4. Better living conditions for the less fortunate community members in the area (widows; abandoned families and aged persons).
- Building them a better house
- Give them a decent bed and beddings
- Building them a latrine
- Teach them sanitation and hygienic skills
- Healthy eating and importance of diet
Will help motivate them to positive living and encourage them to accept situations.
Feel more accepted in the community and morale to participate in community functions. Motivation to their kids and family members to have hopes of tomorrow and not live negatively thus boost the kids' morale towards studies.
5. Tree planting in the community and beyond (Fruit trees).
- Preparation of the tree nursery or buying of the seedlings for the community
- Growing of the seedlings in school and the children's center and homes in the community
- Every home gets 6 different types of fruit trees to improve the diet of everyone. The maintenance of the seedlings not to be destroyed by the animals and pesticides
Advantages
- Helps improve the diets of the community members and others too.
- Help improve the water catchments of the region.
- Promote the cleaning of harmful gases from the atmosphere.
- Improve the soil erosion control of the area.
6. Technical training for the youths and young married women and school drop out in my area and beyond.
This includes:
- Cobbling
- Carpentry
- Bicycle repairs
- Motor bike repairs
- Tire repairs
- Farming skills
- Small business skills
- Sewing using machines
- Art and Craft work
- Masonry
- Photography
- Other ideas are welcomed
Advantages
- Help the young school drop outs and young married girls learn a skill and survive from
- The skill will create employment for the people and will help eliminate the idle minds and even set a pace for survival. Small business will also promote team building and working together
7. Fundraising and Construction of classes and teachers office for Dago Primary School.
- Dago needs 5 more classes to help all the kids get better classes, so far there are only 6 finished classes
- Equipping classes with desks and teachers tables
- Finishing of classes by painting and windows
- Supply of school stationeries and books for the kids and teachers
Advantages
- Help the young school drop outs and young married girls learn a skill and survive from
- The skill will create employment for the people and will help eliminate the idle minds and even set a pace for survival. Small business will also promote team building and working together
8. Fundraising and Construction of classes and teachers office for Dago Primary School.
- Dago needs 5 more classes to help all the kids get better classes, so far there are only 6 finished classes
- Equipping classes with desks and teachers tables
- Finishing of classes by painting and windows
- Supply of school stationeries and books for the kids and teachers
- Sponsorship of children in the school e.g. uniforms; shoes and books and stationeries
- Provision of electricity and kitchen in the school
Advantages
- Boost the performances of the kids in the school and when they proceed to high school.
- Help raise the performance of the school and improve the placement in the grading.
- Encourage learning in the area and give a cheaper education and discourage the private education. Encourage the community realize the importance of education and get them involved in encouraging their kids to believe in education.
9. Talent tapping in the region and beyond since a lot of talents in the area go untapped and this includes
- Dancing
- Singing
- Drawing
- Painting
- Acting
- Photography Sports
- Writing
- Designing
- Other ideas are welcomed
Advantages
- Help people realize the talents and skills that they can exploit.
- Will help reduce the idleness and promote self realization.
- Will help some people make a living out of the talents.
- Create impact and change amongst other society members.
- Create awareness and solutions to different situations.
- Enhance the dynamism in the society.
10. Writing the history of the area and the community living around the region.
- Migration patterns
- Settlement of the people
- Settlement of the people
- Clans and tribes of the region.
- Times and change of the people.
- Leadership and leaders over time
- Cultural practices and beliefs.
- Roles and duties of various persons
- Genders issues and change
- Amongst other issues.
Advantages
- Preserve the history of the society.
- Enlightens on the evolution processes.
- Teach the kids learn and know who they are.
- Help everyone understand the past, appreciate the present and plan for the future.
11. Football tournament for the whole area (Divisional Level)
Arrange and host a one month football tournament for the communities around the area
Advantages
- Help bring the youths together.
- Promote team building
- Reduce idleness and bad companies
- Promote positive thinking.
- Chance to educate the people on HIV/AIDS and STD's
- Bringing rival clans together and promote togetherness.
- Give awards to winning teams and encourage others to work together.
12. Local Poultry keeping for the groups in the community
For eggs, meat and upgrading the breeds.
Advantages
- Upgrading the local chicken breeds to enhance production.
- Source of income and support to the groups.
- Enhanced diet for the community members and the area around.
- Learning experiences for the group members on how to handle the
- Chicken and also benefits of chicken.
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Housing of the 20 girls in September 2008
- Pamela (Director shortlisted for an award by OneWorld.Net).
- Renovation and completion of the Kitchen
- Intorduction of Organic Farming in August
- Sponsorship of children by volunteers started in Summer
- Completion of water Catchment project
- Grant award for International Federation of Home Economics
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