Name of organization: Rock Of Ages Center for Hope

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Operational location: Kireka Hill, Kampala

Amount requested: UGX1,000,000

Purpose: Maize/Beans growing

Brief Description of the Proposal and Budget plan:

ROCK OF AGES CENTER FOR HOPE - MAIZE/BEANS PROJECT

BACKGROUND:

This venture is to be implemented by the founder members of the project and it will be located at Koro Abili village, 10kms from Gulu town, along Gulu- Kampala Road.

It is to be financed by members subscriptions and contribution of 1,590,000 = (One million Five Hundred Ninety Thousand shillings) and a loan or donation or grant of 1,000,000 (One Million Shillings only)

The core objective for setting up this venture is to help the organization with feeding of the children and where possible sell some part of the products to raise funds for taking care of other activities. For now, we plan to begin majorly with Maize and Beans, and later go into other food crops like; Soya beans, and cassava. The land in question is indeed fertile with adequate rain. All the neighbors are also engaged in farming at various levels and we hope this venture will yield a good return.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

So far, we have been able to buy the 5 acres of land and what remains is now the actual work to begin, right from clearing the land to harvesting.

We expect to plant 5 acres of maize. The yield per acre is expected to be 20 bags of 100 Kilograms each. The 5 acres of maize is therefore to produce 100 bags each season. Since there are two planting periods in a year and we want to try to plant in both seasons, we shall be able to produce 200 bags of maize per year.

On the same 5 acres, we also expect to inter plant beans with the maize. That means we are planting beans on 5 acres and each acre is expected to give a yield of 8 bags of beans. The total bags per season will then be 40 bags and we expect to plant the beans twice a year that will therefore produce 80 bags per year. Each bag will contain 100 kilograms of beans.

The administration of this venture is still mainly in the hands of a few of the founder members, Ms Lucy Lamunu and Mr. Obalim Gerard who is an Agriculturalist. Casual laborers will do physical work and the work will take in; - clearing the field, planting, weeding, harvesting, sorting, and others. The casual laborers will do Bush clearing and occasionally hired tractors will be used for ploughing.

Weeding and harvesting will be done by use of local tools like hand hoes. However, we plan to adopt better scientific methods of farming to enable us achieve the highest yield possible and to speed up work as we expand.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

• Provide food for the center.
• Provide an alternative source of income to the center.
• Increase the asset worth of the organization

EXPECTED OUTPUT:

• High quality beans ready for cooking
• High quality maize ( Corns) for flour
• Beans and Maize seeds for more planting
• Land acquired

PROJECT BUDGET

WORK PLAN:

FIRST SEASON: