Our Programs
Health Programs
In partnership with CEI and Mothers Union Buganda, STEIN has delivered 10 economic empowerment trainings that focused on skilling women and the youth, though several were attended by men as well.
These imparted knowledge and skills in savings and investment, basic family health, innovations by the youth, soap making, candle making, crafts, mushroom growing and commercial animal husbandry on a small scale, with demonstration done at the St Theresa Livestock Farm.
Lya Butuufu (Eat Right) Program
The Lya Butuufu (Eat Right) Program aimed at supporting mothers to provide a balanced diet to their children so that their intellectual growth is not affected by a poor diet.
This will involve skilling them into modern agricultural practices like permaculture to enable them to grow food to support their families and proper dieting practices.
Nange Ndi Butonde
This is intended to make people realise that human beings are part of the environment and have an obligation to protect and sustainably use it.
There is a tendency for people to perceive the environment as something that is far removed from the people and or our daily lives.
The environment is seen as trees, lakes and land that should take care of itself. The NNB Program is intended to change people’s mindset and put them at the centre of promoting sustainable use of the environment and asking them to give more to it than one takes out.
Under this, STEIN intends to build a citizens movement for social change and constant realization that one individual act (like planting a tree) supports or destroys (like litter) the environment and contributes to climate change.
Lunda Program
STEIN introduced an agricultural project that aims to empower farmers in food and livestock production on a small piece of land.
The project, which is called LUNDA, will be implemented in four extension areas selected in Wakiso, Mityana, Kyotera and Buvuma districts.
The project will, among others, strengthen veterinary extension services, and it has been designed in such a way that it will bridge various gaps that we have identified in livestock production as a way of increasing production.
Aware that veterinary extension services have gone down in the country over the years, the project wants to provide a demonstration opportunity where farmers can visit and learn effective ways of livestock management without having to require extension services that are hard to come by.
The project will engage personnel from the Kawanda Research Institute and the Weitz Centre for International Development, Israel, to bring about the Rehovot Approach to agricultural and livestock production.