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                                             2010
We have opened the new decade with an exciting purchase. 



At the end of January we acquired 20 acres of farmland near Kasiisi Primary School. 

Bordered by a stream on one side, which will greatly aid irrigation, and by a papyrus swamp on another, mixed cash crops are envisaged, to maintain the funding of the Kasiisi Porridge Project well into the future.




After the administrative hurdles of surveying and registration, now come many decisions on the nuts and bolts of the operation of the plot.  The new owners, our partner body in Uganda - the Kibale Forest Schools Students Support Project (Feeding) - are already working hard on these questions, but the first step towards a self-sustaining school meal programme has been taken.



WHAT HAPPENED AT KASIISI IN 2009?
1000 children started receiving a daily mug of porridge - their first school meal ever.












Here they are queuing outside their newly built kitchen

















Until the dining room is finished, they eat their porridge wherever they can find...























At Kanyawara they are still waiting for a new kitchen.  Meanwhile, porridge is being served in a temporary field kitchen, until funds are found to build the kitchen.




It all started on 30 March 2009, when Guest of Honour Dr Emily Otali handed the very first mug of porridge to the Head Girl of Kasiisi Primary School.  This was the day that the dreams of the Porridge Project finally started to be realised.  Great thanks are due to all our supporters who have helped this exciting day to arrive. 


 







New latrines, funded by the Kitchen Table Charities Trust are more or less complete at Kasiisi Primary School.



 

In February 2009 two trustees visited Kasiisi, painted classrooms, took new footballs and even a trombone. They also saw the great progress made with the buildings onsite, pictured left. 

In June 2008 a group of Kasiisi Porridge Project trustees and friends from the UK visited Kasiisi Primary School. (more...)

BANANA PORRIDGE TRIALS
 
Full trials of the banana flour porridge started on 25th May 2009. They are being conducted by Miriam Kanyago, under the supervision of Professor Florence Muranga of Makerere University in Kampala and  the Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID).