Posts tagged Drainage
Farmland Improvements
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Need: Farmland Improvements

Location: Kamuli District, Uganda, Sonrise Children’s Home compound

Background: Need to create drainage ditches around and through our swampy low-land acreage creating high ground area and lowland ponds increasing agricultural acrerage for food production. We would like to maximize the potential of our acreage especially during the extreme wet seasons.

Benefits:

  • Increase our agricultural average for rice, sweet potatoes, cow grass and vegetables

  • Creation of ponds may provide an opportunity for tilapia farming at a future date.

  • Additional employment for
    villagers

Budget: $25,000

Sonrise Children’s Home serves to promote the Good News of Christ in their area of influence through education, farming, school, outreach and discipleship.