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Set up and establish a skill training Centre for women and the youth and a children's home.

Due to high level of backwardness and illiteracy among the community,the majority is leaving under abject poverty. Hands in service is looking at setting up a skill training center you the youth and women, this center will be teaching basic reading and writing skill since majority cannot read and write. This will help reduce the high level of illiteracy.
Technical skill for income generating activities and self reliance that will help to eradicate and break the chain of poverty among members of the community.
A children's home would help raise the children who lost their parents due to HIV and AIDS, a 20 year old insurgency in the North and North Eastern Uganda.

The main source of income is agriculture followed by livestock, though this was affected greatly during the 1989-1991 insurgencies in the area. Cotton used to be the main cash crop but is now grown by very few households. The trend in crop production took a twist in the 1990s and onwards in that a number of food crops are now produced for both food and for sale. These include groundnuts, cassava, sorghum, millet, rice, maize, simsim, beans, pineapples and citrus. The second most important source of income is fisheries.

Pottery, brick laying and charcoal burning are also economic activities which some communities are engaged in for survival.

The other sources of income derive from non-farm activities such as employment in the civil service, mainly small-scale businesses, and, the service industry like lodging and restaurants. There is an increasing trend towards non-farm activities due to uncertainty and seasonality of agricultural income and also increasing new demands to households, for example, paying for tertiary education and health services.
Hence most children are bound to drop out of school since the parents cannot pay their school fees.

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