Hello,

I am Mama Mado Beriu, Chairperson of Nyalebbe Community Development Alliance.

Welcome to our website where you can learn about us and also our projects.

I will begin by telling you about the women of Nyalebbe.

In the Alur culture women belong to men, every thing in the house belongs to the men while the girls are seen as properties to their parents especially the poor ones who accounts for over half of the community.

Women do not have any source of income, they are just dependants who wait for their husbands to give them money for food and to meet their other demands.

This has made them become very vulnerable because they can not stand and defend their status yet all the domestic work is done by them.

Women wake up very early to make breakfast, they go to the field, they have to come back with firewood and water then begin cooking while men just wake up take breakfast then go to the field after they come home and expect to find food ready.

After eating they just go drinking, in other words it is the women who does all the domestic work yet they do own a thing in the home... you will note that the issue of gender is never heard of in our part of the world.

The women of Nyalebbe are very active in development activities but they have not got any person or organization to help them in their initiative. We the women are very happy today if there is a program coming our way that will help lift up the standard and the status of women in the community. I’m very sure, learning vocational skills will substitute our garden and domestic work and will give us an opportunity to have a stable source of income and not depend entirely on our husbands for all our demands. Learning tailoring skills is some thing so good for women because they do have to move here and there looking for business. They will be able to stay and work from home. They also wish to engage the women in other income generating activities like small credit schemes.

We need your support if we are to implement and put all this in place.

Situation of Girls

Many girls of girls of Nyalebbe have been engaged in prostitution because when they drop out of school they do not have any stable source of income to sustain themselves. They end up going in for business which gives them a little money in return for sex. Then men later abandon them — sometimes when they are pregnant and or have been infected with HIV/AIDS. There has also been cases where girls who drop out go in for early marriage and after a few year things get bad and the men abandon them with babies. We believe that this project and others that will come will help assist such girls by giving a way of earning a living in a culturally accepted manner.

About Boys

This program will also target the boys especially the orphans.

We believe that this project will mobilize and train also the boys in vocational skills and instill in them the attitude of being self sustained and support their families because if these boys do not have a stable source of income they will not be in position to send their kids to school and their kids too will have the same problem hence the vicious circle will continue. But if we intervene at this now, we shall be in position to break the vicious circle at an early stage.

Lack of a stable source income has also made many young men engage in criminal activities, drug abuse and idleness. By engaging them in this program therefore we believe we shall minimize most of these problems.

You will reacognise that all our projects need start up funds to take off so that we can become self reliance, so we need financial support and expertise.

See the tailoring and cutting program
See the carpentry and joinery program
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