PRESIDENT OF TRANSFORM AID INTERNATIONAL VISITS ADJUMANI TO MONITOR FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY LIVELIHOOD PROJECT.

By Bazio Doreen.

On 16th July 2024, together with the Adjumani team of Food for the Hungry, we hosted the President of Transform Aid International Ltd - Australia, one of the donors of the organization who was on an official monitoring visit to the district.

Through Food for the Hungry, Transform Aid Australia has been implementing the Children, Youth, and Community for Change (CYCC) project in Itirikwa (Mungula refugee settlement) and Ukusijioni (Maaji I and Maaji II refugees’ settlements) sub-counties since 2017. The project has 9,663 direct beneficiaries and 45,667 indirect beneficiaries and has the main goal of creating a safe and enabling environment where children and youth thrive. This is done through the thematic areas of livelihood, Health, Nutrition, WASH, ECCD, and Child Protection.

While addressing a stakeholders meeting at the district headquarters, Hon. Anyama Ben, the District Chairperson, appreciated the Australian government for its efforts and generous support towards development and improving food security. He, however, tasked them to also expand the program to the remaining 16 settlements in the district.

On his part, Mr. Taban Peter Data, the Resident District Commissioner, observed that the government had played its part by enabling an open door policy for refugees and maintaining hospitality so that development and implementing partners can support the refugee response.

A representative of the Country Director for Food for the Hungry, Ms, Dorothy Namayanja, also informed the district that while they have done so much on the ground, their interventions as implementing partners are mainly undermined by a poor mindset of beneficiaries and urged the district leadership to scale up behavioral change programs.

The President, Ms. Melissa Lipsett, on her part, thanked the district for its efforts and pledged to source more funds adding that however, the district needs to consolidate its efforts by putting in place sustainability measures.

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