Katungulu Ttaba Youths Forum

Postal Address	P.O. Box 8676, Kampala, Uganda
Street Address	Plot 81 Kampala Road
Tel	256-41-230017/256-77-506788
Fax	256-41-230017
E-mail	kavumaml@yahoo.com
Web Address	-
Year Established	1998
Contacts	Kavuma Emmanuel, Project Manager
Mission	Eradication of poverty among the youth in Katungulu Ttaba.
Geographical area of operations	Bukulula Katungulu Ttaba, Kalungu East, Masaka District
Issues area of operations	Youth economic empowerment
Activities	Fruit tree growing
Affiliation(s)	-
Dissemination	-
Target Audience	Youth and Women
Additional Information	The fruit farm was started in 1996 with mangoes, jack fruit, avocados and passion fruits. Today, we continue to plant more fruits, particularly mangoes. The farm is about 4 acres and we have a total of about 240 trees of which 80 trees have started fruiting. We have started selling some fruits in local markets especially in Kampala. The greatest achievements so far is that we have started selling fruits and earning some money after a long period of hard work and sacrificing a lot of money and time for this project. The main difficulties the project has faced are mainly money for paying workers, money for taking care of the trees, planting materials, pestsides, transportation of fruits. Future plans include: Getting more funders to expand the project. For example, we have another very big land available for expansion of about 15 acres. We also want to start exporting the fruits to Europe. We are also planning to put up a fruit house in Kampala and other towns in Uganda.

Last update: December-26, 2001