About Amigos

Kira Farm - creating a self-sustainable project
Kira Farm has been created by Ugandans with farming experience spanning more than 50 years. In this facility, via a twelve-month residential training course, Amigos will give some of the neediest Ugandans, young and old, an opportunity to learn farming and vocational skills. After the proper training students will be offered their own livestock, tools, trees and seeds – so that they can return to their villages with those animals, tools and skills and pass the knowledge on. Their aim is to develop innovative ideas that include chicken incubation for self-sustainability. Kira farm will be run and staffed by skilled Ugandans.

Vision
The Kira Farm vision is promote basic education and skills for widows, orphans and disadvantaged teenagers. To help establish small but viable businesses in rural villages via a 12 month training programme at the end of which students will be equipped with farm packages of livestock, feeds, seeds and tools. To encourage independence and teach a good moral code for living in Ugandan society addressing health and hygiene, fist aid, nutrition, HIV-AIDS awareness, sexual morality. To teach simple Biblical values for everyday living – honesty, integrity, fidelity and enabling trustworthy and self-reliant citizens to return to their various communities, becoming a positive example for the next generation.

Education
Globally, around 100 million children cannot go to school - yet most people, including world leaders, see education as a route out of poverty. If you believe that ‘education is the route out of poverty' then there are a number of ways in which you can help. Visit the Make a Difference page to find out how you can do this today.

International Singing Star Joss Stone helped to raise the £7,500 needed to build the first classroom at Kira Farm. Click here to hear Joss talk about the work of Amigos, then click on the image of Joss (right) to find out more about how she became involved with the charity.

Money raised by sales of Global English courses is sent to Amigos every 3 months support local teachers at the Kira Farm project, helping to educate the next generation of Ugandans.