However, most farmers in our region are chronically poor, and can’t afford the needed inputs on their own. So, providing our target farmers with initial inputs (only as a hand-up), along with technical training & other extension services, is part of the UCF’s pre-existing community work, and is part of the overall Business Model for our intended plant.

However, most farmers here are chronically poor, and can’t afford the needed inputs on their own. So, providing our target farmers with initial inputs (only as a hand-up), along with technical training and ongoing extension services, is part of the UCF’s preexisting community work, and is part of the overall Business Model for our intended plant.

 

Given the grip of poverty here, this is what I’d like to raise.

At this level, we will have a first-of-its-kind plant in our region, and the capacity to work with rural farmers across Busoga as a whole, placing these farmers on a self-sufficient path from poverty by providing them with initial inputs, training & ongoing extension services, plus a ready market.

Yet, even in those few poor communities that have been lucky enough to get some random intervention, there is usually nothing to show for it. These solutions have always disappeared without a trace. All because this work is exclusively long-distance, top-bottom and often one-off.

Let 2030 not be a total waste, really. Help us have something to show from these 15 years (2015 – 2030) as far as ending extreme poverty is concerned, by working together with us the unhumanly way. Read on to see 5 unhumanly ways you can work with us between now and 2030. 

Let 2030 not be a total waste, really. Help us have something to show from these 15 years (2015 – 2030) as far as ending extreme poverty is concerned, by teaming up with us the unhumanly way. Please read on to see 5 unhumanly ways you can work with us between now and 2030.

Let 2030 not be a total waste, really. Help us have something to show from these 15 years (2015 – 2030) as far as ending extreme poverty is concerned, by teaming up with us the unhumanly way. Read on below to see 5 unhumanly ways you can work with us between now and 2030.

Why end extreme poverty the UNHUMANLY way?

Today, it is very clear to me that the things that humanity promises we the world’s poor, aren’t really what it means. And at this point, it has become very clear that 2030 is in fact going to find people like us in the same place, with totally nothing new.

The humanly way of ending global poverty only means eternal poverty:

Today, it doesn’t matter whether humanity expends just $50k or $50 billion on ending global poverty in a given year, for those of us at the very bottom of the pyramid, poverty still bites exactly the same way.

In fact, if humanity was to do one unusual thing, by deciding to spend the equivalent of the US GDP on ending global poverty yearly, between now and 2030, the extreme poor in a place like ours won’t even notice that there is something unusual humanity has done this time round.

Poverty will still bite exactly the same way, and life will still suck exactly as always. In addition, those remote rural communities where it takes decades for a single antipoverty agency to show up, and which are the majority, will still remain totally untouched, again, just as always.

On the one hand, humanity has historically ensured that virtually no single penny of all the money that is intended to end global poverty, or not more than 1% to be exact, reaches we the ultra poor in the global south.

And on the other, the people from the global development sector, i.e., western charities, who keep the other 99% of global antipoverty $$$, until their own work reaches your village by pure chance, which rarely happens, getting these people to lend you a voice on poverty, or getting them to work together with you on anything, is nothing but a miracle.

For we the world’s poor, this only means a lifetime of chronic poverty:

In a place like ours, i.e., Busoga, Uganda’s most impoverished region the size of Gambia, there are communities here that can take even up to twenty years without seeing a single antipoverty agency, and there are those that have never seen any.

Let 2030 not be a total waste. Help us have something to show from these fifteen years (2015 – 2030) as far as ending extreme poverty is concerned, by teaming up with us the unhumanly way. Please read on to see 5 unhumanly ways you can work with us between now and 2030.

The most regrettable part though is that:

Yet, even in those few poor communities that have been lucky enough to get some random intervention, the impact is always very short-lived. All because this work is purely long-distance, top-bottom and often one-off.

And that is for those few poor communities that have been fortunate enough to get something. But these are the very few. In the majority of remote rural communities, it is very, very hard to find anything that is happening to end extreme poverty, and it’s been that way for decades.