Many of you would have been watching with interest as our mushroom project at Suubi has gone from a simple idea, to the Kabaale training excursion, to local training, and now we are happy to tell you that the Suubi ladies have just harvested their first crop. How exciting!
Since the training day held late last year at Suubi we have been busily working towards a way of assisting a small number of ladies in the area to set up their own mushroom growing businesses. We constructed a mushroom house on the Suubi compound to be used for demonstration purposes and a mushroom drier was also built for the centre.
Since the training day held late last year at Suubi we have been busily working towards a way of assisting a small number of ladies in the area to set up their own mushroom growing businesses. We constructed a mushroom house on the Suubi compound to be used for demonstration purposes and a mushroom drier was also built for the centre.
The demonstration mushroom house at Suubi.
Ssmwogerere David explains how the drier works.
Following this, each of the ladies that were interested in being involved in the project set about constructing mushroom houses at their own homes. As mushrooms need to be grown in a dark environment this was able to be achieved by using mud and reeds which are easily accessible in the area.
Naluwagi Anette outside her new mushroom house.
Early in March ten ladies each received 50 sachets of mushroom spore to get their business started. They were all very excited to be given this opportunity to create a sustainable income for their families. A percentage of each sale they now make will be returned to Suubi until they have fully repaid the initial cost of the spore they received to get started.
Mushroom spore was distributed to ten ladies. Yes we know what it looks like but it REALLY is mushroom spore!
Now less than a month later the ladies are harvesting their first crops - very exciting! They have all had great success and are now eagerly awaiting the drying process so that their produce can be packaged ready for sale.
Nankya Madelena happily shows off her first commercial harvest.
Mushrooms are placed in the drier at Suubi in preparation for packaging.
This is indeed a wonderful outcome for everyone involved. And it was all made possible by generous Aussies who donated the 50,000UGX (approx $30AUD) required to get each of the ladies started in their exciting new business venture. Thank you, thank you, thank you to each of you!
We currently have another 13 ladies ready and waiting to be part of this project so if you would like to jump on board simply donate here.
HUGs from the team!
We currently have another 13 ladies ready and waiting to be part of this project so if you would like to jump on board simply donate here.
HUGs from the team!
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