Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)

The current evidenced based WASH activities of MIFA are carried out at her Ebenezer Children’s Rehabilitation Centre. At the centre, hygiene education and practical skills of  construction of pit-latrine and water-tanks are being conducted. These WASH activities are still on small scale, however, MIFA has planned to expand the WASH programme to cover the following:

Capacity Building through Training of its stakeholders in best WASH management approaches as well as mainstreaming cross-cutting issues (Gender, HIV/AIDS, Environment) and conducting exchange visits for sharing best practices in local health; Capital Development through repairs and constructions, and introducing and promoting better technologies including water filtering; Economic and Rights Empowerment of stakeholders as an income generation approach including greening initiatives for environmental conservation.

Agriculture

MIFA has 40 acres of land at Namasumbi village in Mukono District for a pro-poor focused Sustainable Agriculture Programme. This well-intended initiative will introduce the targeted households to the multiple benefits of embracing ecological farming like improved food security backed by healthy foods, improved incomes and overall improvements in the general standards of living. The current on-going agricultural initiatives include; crop farming, animal and poultry rearing as well as tree planting on small scale though.

In the mid-term and long-run, MIFA has planned to expand this programme both within Mukono and to other districts of Uganda. The scaling up of the programme will cover training rural poor farmers in low-cost Organic Farming approaches, and also introduce them to  Soil Feeding Techniques, Soil and Water Conservation Measures, Tillage Practice, Agro-forestry, Ecological Pest Control and Crop Disease Management, Water Harvesting and Modern Rearing of Animals at household level.

Human rights and good governance

MIFA supports over 500 pupils/students in schools annually, as a right to education. However, this programme component has not yet attained its holistic approach of total observance, protection and promotion of the rights of children. Therefore, MIFA plans to involve other stakeholders like human rights activists groups& agencies, peer mediation clubs, children, women, men, youth, disabled, elderly and PLWAHs as well as government agencies like Uganda Human Rights Commission, Ministry of Gender, Labour & Social Development, Amnesty Commission, etc.