“Without wetlands, our lives are at risk. Unfortunately, we the ones who are supposed to protect the wetlands, our people are the ones destroying them."
8479 households formerly depending on wetlands for livelihoods in East and South Western Uganda in April received a second phase of the alternative livelihoods under the Building Resilient Communities, Wetland Ecosystem and Associated Catchments in Uganda Project.
The first time they received was about three years ago, when government through Environment Alert (EA) and World Vision (WV) distributed various enterprises (piggery, apiary, turkeys, heifers, fisheries, and irrigation) in the districts of Mitooma, Sheema, Bushenyi, Palisa, and Kibuuku as pilot alternative livelihoods.
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