FVM International Development Organization - IDO

The founding members of our community cultivation cooperative in Jami village Budaka East Africa.

FVM is today happy to observe the wonderful initiative that is International Womens' Day.

Future Village Mugisa wishes to honour the memory of Thomas Sankara of Burkina-Faso as he was born 21st of December.
Sankara was the revolutionary president of the Republic of Burkina-Faso from 1983-1987.

His commitment to women's rights led him to outlaw FEMALE GE***AL MUTILATION, FORCED MARRIAGES and polygamy, while appointing women to high governmental positions and encouraging them to work outside the home and stay in school even if pregnant.

His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine with agrarian self-sufficiency and land reform, prioritizing education with a nation-wide literacy campaign, and promoting public health by vaccinating 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles.

Other components of his national agenda included PLANTING OVER TEN MILLION TREES to halt the growing desertification of the Sahel, doubling wheat production by redistributing land from feudal landlords to peasants, suspending rural poll taxes and domestic rents, and establishing an ambitious road and rail construction program to "tie the nation together".

On the localized level Sankara also called on every village to build a medical dispensary and had over 350 communities construct schools with their own labour.

Below is an artistic picture of our hero in his trademark red barrette.
Also are two pictures that show FVM sensitising the community of our forth coming Eco-Ranch & farming demonstration project. The other is of the FVM team introducing children of our SSTi program to space & technology. All of this is a legacy of the idea and revolution that was Sankara & other such leaders.

Future Village Mugisa would like to pay tribute to Madiba Nelson Rohilhalhla Mandela and the spirit of good governance and sustainable development that he inspired in Africa and the world as a whole.

These are a series of pictures that we feel are a part of Madiba's legacy. They depict our township education program 'SSTi' and low-cost solar light installation in the same community, coordinated by FVM with the great help of our friends at the 'Daylight Project' Kampala.

All will help in the liberation of young township minds.
As they say in Africa, "Madiba now travels with the ancestors, with love and peace."

Tony at the show on Friday;
We were invited to the South African Wine exhibition at Serena International hotel Kampala by Wines of South Africa (WOSA).
We hope to connect with experienced viticulturists and vintners to assist in the development of our viticulture (grape) project.

We found these red bananas with an Mbale street vender. Phil never knew red bananas existed.
"They must be from Mars!"