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Report to the chairman
District Development Committee
Copies to
District Social Development officer (DSDOS)
Divisional Social Development Assistant
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Brief history
Dala Rieko was founded as a community based organisation in the year 2008, an organisation whose main goal is to provide a meeting place for learning, sharing knowledge and good practice.
The organisation has the following features
Abila
The centre has abila, a local Luo name meaning a meeting place for telling stories, learning and instilling disciplinary talks amongst the young. Abila acts as the main meeting place for Dala Rieko.
Living house and offices
The centre also has a big living house “The Factory” with Founders’ Room, Brothers’ Room and Sisters’ Room, two offices Dala Rieko 1 and Dala Rieko 2, and a spacious room for holding other meetings.
Building with kitchen and dining for ten people.
Toilet building with bathroom and two latrines.
Activities in Dala Rieko
Activities in Dala Rieko are based in four main areas, i.e.
- Food and nutrition security
- Forestry
- Economic empowerment
- Technology sourcing and transfer
Results based on activity areas
Food security
1) Soil and water conservation. Improving the soil through education, making and promoting the use of composted manure made from water hyacinth
2) Promoting running and roof water catchment
3) Construction of one complete 300m2 fish pond with average fish capacity of 1000
4) Setting up learning and production garden of conservation agriculture methods (CA) and good agricultural practice (GAP)
5) Promoting the cultivation of high value and nutritious crops e.g. amaranth, green grams and early maturity crops
6) Promoting and keeping of light household livestocks e.g. poultry keeping and bee keeping
7) Promoting cultivation of tissue culture bananas
8) Conducting practical research on what food security crops are good for this region
Economic empowerment
Farming as business
Dala Rieko is also promoting farming as a business (FAB) by promoting already mentioned crops e.g. green grams, tissue culture bananas, jatropha, amaranth and livestock like poultry and bee keeping.
Microfinance
We are also working with the community to promote savings and credit. This we do in collaboration with Asembo Bay Microfinance.
Employment creation
Dala Rieko is out promoting employment-creation in line with Kazi Kwa Vijana and Women employment. We have engaged women even in the men dominated fields like painting and arts.
Forestry
We have distributed a total of 3000 seedlings to young farmers, the visually impaired and the elderly farmers. We do this without gender bias. We have also planted a total of 300 trees in our compound.
Technology
We are promoting the use of the sun, good water treatment technologies, simple and easy to adapt agricultural technologies and promoting jatropha farming for bio fuel, sisal cultivating for natural fibres.
Immediate future plans
- Construction of two – four more fish ponds with farmers
- Planting of forest with farmers
- Reclaiming the rock land for kitchen gardening in our compound
- Producing food with farmers
- Building both local and international links
- Hosting World Food Day 2010 October 10th
- Training Resource Change Managers
Long term plans
- Tapping solar energy for irrigation
- Controling water with farmers in the agricultural fields
- Conserving Lake Victoria with fisher folk
Thank you very much.
The two founders are Tor and Ellinor.
The founding father is Alex Omino.