POSHU Update July 2023

POSHU is registered as a Community Based Organisation in Uganda. We work with women affected by HIV/Aids, Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and those whose lives are impacted by violence and poverty. Operating in urban, rural and remote communities in Uganda since 2009.

Please see below updates on POSHU’s current projects

POSHU Sewing Classes

On the ground in Uganda our POSHU Project is more valued than ever in the 14 villages where we operate. Each Sewing Class is managed by our sewing teachers and their Sewing Committees. Every teacher is regularly contacted by phone or visited by POSHU Chairperson Grace and workable solutions are found to their problems.

In July our Poshu Sewing Teacher, Roda and her students began sewing uniforms for the children we support at Orapada Primary School.

Twelve uniforms completed so far! From the income they earned, the women will buy thread, buttons and zips for their own projects. The women are currently learning to sew re-usable hygiene pads from material provided by POSHU.

POSHU Elder Support

In July 8 elderly widows aged over eighty, received food parcels of sorghum meal to make porridge, tea leaves, salt, sugar and soap.

POSHU Vegetable Seed Distribution

This year has been one of our best ever with more families picking vegetables from their home gardens, and rain coming on time. Each of the 12 villages in this program receive tins of okra, squimawich greens, eggplant and another of their choice. Some chose watermelon, or tomatoes.

POSHU Disabled Support and Goat Distribution

POSHU Goats for Disabled project have distributed 67 goats to children living with a disability. But the support doesn’t stop there. Our POSHU team continue to visit each family and provide assistance including food, clothing and medical.

POSHU Emergency Aid

This year POSHU transported sacks of cassava cuttings and sweet potato runners for planting to 4 villages in need in Moroto District. They are picking sweet potato for the first time in September. It is a new crop for them. We also bought 6 tarpaulins for our members in Katakwi affected by floods.

POSHU teachers lend out the books to families who wish to learn at home

We continue to support our Senior School students. We continue to support our 14 English and Sewing teachers, POSHU Coordinators and committee members in Njeru, Kumi, Palisa, Katakwi and Moroto and pay rent for the POSHU Sewing Room at Palisa.

POSHU Disability Support

Another group of 8 children and their mothers taken to Cure Children’s Hospital for free treatment in July.