28 June 2016

Buhweju gets heifers to boost household incomes

Buhweju Woman MP Oliver Koyekyenga (in yellow) handing over heifers to the beneficiaries. PHOTO BY RAJAB MUKOMBOZI 




Buhweju District has received 45 heifers under Operation Wealth Creation Programme (OWC) with caution to beneficiaries to manage them well for the benefit of the communities.
At the hand over, the area Woman MP Oliver Koyekyenga told beneficiaries not to see things given by government as gifts and warned that they will have to account for them.






Tighten criteria
Koyekyenga added that besides improving household incomes, it will help combat malnutrition.
Despite some discontent about the criteria used to give out these cows, the district chairperson John Asiimwe noted the criteria of getting inputs under this programme will be “tightened” to ensure the beneficiaries are able to make good use of them.






Attain targets
He noted that with sensitisation, all groups especially the youth will be empowered on how to utilise the inputs being given out to achieve target of raising household incomes.
Col Ndema Mbireba, the OWC coordinator for Buhweju, also maintained they have to tighten the criteria on giving out if they are to benefit the communities.






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