Launching the TMT Training at Brovad Hotel-Masaka

TMT Training:

Strengthening the capacity and retooling Field Extension staff of MADDO in “Entrepreneurship, Technology Transfer and Gender in the Dairy Value Chain.”

TMT Topics:

1. Dairy Value Chain
2. Entrepreneurship and farm economics
3. Training of Trainers
4. Dairy farm management
5. Herd improvement, health and fertility

Output:

1. Participants will know and understand the dairy value chain in MADDO’s milk catchment area.
2. Participants will be able to develop and operate an appropriate farm management system, including feed planning, pasture management and ratio formulation
3. Participants will be to develop appropriate milk control systems form hygienic milk production and handling, collection, testing and processing. Critical control points will be identified.
4. Participants will be equipped with training skills that will be used transfer knowledge to colleagues, community based trainers and dairy farmers
5. Participants will be to offer technical guidance pertaining group formation and strengthening.

Caritas MADDO, through its Departments of Health and Welfare made merry this year’s World Day of the Sick organised in Buyamba Parish Rakai District. Over one thousand patients were attended to and given free therapeutic health services. the event also had people donating blood, voluntary testing and counseling for HIV/AIDS. All the patients, the old and the most vulnerable at least received basic essential items like; sugar, soap, clothing & food .

Bishop JB. Kaggwa of Masaka Diocese hands over free items to the patients

a huge number turned up for free medication, VCT also donated blood

Bishop Kaggwa Launches the Theatre

Theatre Block

Bishop inspects the theatre equipments

On the 31^st December 2015, Bishop of Masaka JB Kaggwa and  Mrs. Ddungu Elizabeth(Terre Des Hommes country Director) launched an  Theatre Unit at St Andrew’s Community Health Centre in Biikira Parish – Rakai district. This theatre is to provide services to over 50,000 people in the South-Western part of Uganda especially pregnant mothers with complications during birth.