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The
Executive Director, Enterprise Uganda, Mr. Charles
Ocici has challenged the beneficiaries of NAADS
programme to perform better with the grants they
get so as to attract even bigger gifts from the
programme. He said some beneficiaries had misused,
neglected or even eaten the grants given to them
by NAADS and then turned up again the next year
looking worse than the previous year and yet asking
for more grants. “If you want to qualify for
a bigger gift, you must first make good use of the
one goat you received so that the next time you
don’t again receive a goat but 5 heifers”,
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Mr.
Ocici gave the advice at the closing of a 5-day
Business & Enterprise Start-up Tool (BEST) clinic
conducted by Enterprise Uganda at new Buyende District
Headquarters in Budhiope County from 13-16 April
2010. This was the 12th BEST clinic conducted by
Enterprise Uganda and was attended by 1347 youths
and their leaders. It was so far the highest attendance
by youths who had to make a contribution of Ushs.
5,000/= each to attend the clinic. Even the mobile
1000 seater tent that had been erected at the venues
proved inadequate for the streaming number of villagers.
Two weeks ago 1,256 participants attended the clinic
at the Kamuli Youth Centre and in both clinics,
participants thronged to the venue daily on foot,
using bicycles and motor cycles, some from 20 km
away to catch the action. In Buyende, over 125 participants
from distant places including mothers with babies
travelled with their mattresses and slept at the
same tent used for training after the daily sessions. |
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The
beneficiaries of NAADS programme in Buyende District
confessed to Mr. Ocici that some of the reasons
why the NAADS programme was not performing well
and not improved their livelihoods were their
negative attitudes, lack of ownership of the programme,
lack of entrepreneurship and business skills before
receiving the grants.
One
participant testified to the audience how he had
received 100 orange trees from NAADS but because
of his negative attitude, he didn’t attend
to them and when they died he did not show any
regret while referring to them as “NAADS
oranges”. He now regretted that if only
he had been to such a clinic before he received
the NAADS support, he would not have neglected
the oranges. He promised never again to neglect
any support he receives from anybody.
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The Chairman Bugaya Sub-County
NAADS Farmers’ organization Mr. Stephen Kigozi
hailed the Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hon. Rebecca
Kadaga who was the chief Guest, the area MP, and
the district leadership for inviting Enterprise
Uganda to train the farmers and Youth of Buyende
district. He requested that the training be extended
to all the sub-counties in the district so that
many farmers who had received NAADS assistance can
look after them better and improve their incomes
to develop the new district.
Enterprise
Uganda with the support of the Ministry of Finance,
Planning & Economic Development plans to roll
out the BEST programme to other districts in the
coming months.
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sign up for the programme contact Enterprise Uganda
on Plot 38 Lumumba Avenues, P.O. Box 24581 Kampala,
Tel: +2563123841000 -e-mail: admin.sec@enterprise.co.ug;
info@enterprise.co.ug |
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