"Yes we can!"
I urge everyone to embrace opportunities such as the training that CDA is going to offer and other development projects that will come by. Let us break the vicious circle of poverty that ties most of us down. Mama Mado Beriu, Chairperson, Nyalebbe CDA, at a one day seminar for all the stakeholders (CBOs, Local NGOs, Local/community leaders, Political Leaders, Government leaders and the members of the organization etc) on 12th April 2008.
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... the home on the web
of the Nyalebbe Community Development Alliance
Anghal Collectivité,
Mahagi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
PO Box 111,
Nebbi, Uganda
Tel +256 753 949 792
We have made a great start with our first projects, announced in 2007. You can read about our starting situation here at our old home page.
The two first projects are providing training in cutting and tailoring and in carpentry and joinery, for young people who would otherwise not have job skills. These priorities are our own decision. We appreciate the generosity of support and ideas from outside, but the most important thing to tell you is that the decisions are ours.
In the photo at the top of this page, we are writing an essay on what peace means for us in Nyalebbe, for an issue of the journal off our backs published in America, edited by Lucinda Marshall of feministpeacenetwork. To read our essay 'Women the Mother of Peace', please click here.
FOR LATEST NEWS REPORT FOR
BIG PROJECT Purpose This is a request for assistance to establish a 'Goat Bank' in our community. The idea is of a bank not lending money but lending goats... a person receives a female goat and when there is offspring passes on a female goat to the bank community. The goats will be cross-bred from local does and imported Boer goat bucks, to provide improvement in livestock health and meat and milk production. Needs and Implications We live in a place fractured by war. We need to come together to build a healthier community and build our own economy. CDA have made a start with two training programs, in tailoring and carpentry, for young people. This project is more ambitious. It requires us to organise at a more complex and enduring level, in a number of places. It requires that we accept responsibilities to run a 'bank'. It requires effective management of goats, their nutrition, health, breeding and marketing. Goats can be willful and destructive if not managed well. Managed well, they provide quantities of milk and meat most relevant to families, compared to cows. So from this project we seek: How to Help Please click here to read more!
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For long, women have been ignored in the community at all levels of development yet the standard of living of a community to a larger extent depends on women. However, women are reduced to level of carrying a basket to and from the market while also responsible for all the work at home both domestic and commercial. The CDA and its plans are a favour brought from heaven. I urge the leaders not to only look at training in vocation skill but also look at other contemporary development issues. I ask everyone to pray for those who are involved in the initiation of the programme and the donors. We must also plan for local fund raising to supplement the external funding. Mama Achune Upio,
The CDA is like a new born baby whom every needs to take care of, embrace and pay attention to, to ensure that it yields the result to which it is intended. You need the cooperation of the whole community of Anghal Collectivité on this project. Community development does not only need one mans effort, but it needs the effort and cooperation of every one in the community. Lack of cooperation is one of the factors that make a project like this fail, along with other factors such as corruption, lack of good governance and lack of transparency. You the pioneer students must be a good example to others. When you prove to others that you have been able to learn something and start up your life, those others will be encouraged to join. Mr. Genombe Ettienne who represented the Chef de Collectivité - Rwoth Yamu - at the April seminar.
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