Farming Season -Another challenge

Most SLA's members, if not all have small "farms" away from homes as a source of additional livelihoods. This process as Jean Nkata explains:

"We spend most of our time in addtion to SLA work to go out into the prepare the land for planting season. For some of us single parents, we have to hire extra labour for help and this costs a lot of money. We depend again from our small profits we share as a group to help out with these costs. Unfortunately we can only do a small portion of the field and that is why we fall back to SLA for help. We have even turned away volunteers due to our unavailability during this crutial time of farming. We need better alternatives"

In the coming season, SLA is planing to hold a general meeting to formulate strategies for long term sustainability such as reinforcing partnerships with the Ministry of Agriculture and learning more from other partners.

A joint partnership meeting with another group from Serenje, that was planned for June will allow members of other groups supported by Color Me In, a US based organizaton to share experiences and chanllenges they face with food security and how to manage time properly.