Dootrip #000002119 - from Edinburgh (United Kingdom) to Jinja (Uganda)

I volunteer to help Partners Empowering AgroEcology Community Education, based at the Source of the Nile River, Jinja Uganda. Partners include Girls4Climate who are represented at COP 26 in Glasgow currently by Joanita Babirye and Pius Payo. Other partners include First Line School in Nakibizzi village who are part of the IT training for youth we currently run in Bukaya village - however we have 5 laptops and 50 youth so we want to enable Nakibizzi to have their own laptops and not have the travel expense between villages either. Other groups of youth are in Butiki and Mpumudde villages, all of these places are within 20 km radius of Jinja where Lake Victoria pours into the Nile River. We use the laptops for education as the students have been under covid lockdown for 2 years and need to catch up through Khan Academy etc. We also use tablets and phones to support small farmer families with tree mapper app, weather data, finding markets, growing information to do regenerative agriculture/ agroecology. Another partner is Busaino Fruits & Herbs run by Judith Bakirya who has developed agroecology over the past 20 years and is slowly spreading it to over 1,200 small farmers now. Judith was awarded a BBC 100 women of the year for her efforts.