Girls Kick It Chicken (Gweno) House Project
Girls Kick It Chicken (Gweno) House Project
Girls Kick It, Global Youth Partnership for Africa
Girls Kick It aims to provide the loan-funding to build a poultry (gweno) house in the Paicho community, and simultaneously provide the management training necessary to oversee the social enterprise. The plan is for the Girls Kick It team to manage and maintain a poultry house that would provide, for the first time, real economic opportunity for these young girls and women of Paicho. Essentially, through this program, the money generated from the sale of chickens to local hotels, businesses and nearby food markets would permit the team to pay for their team needs such as transportation to tournaments and practices, coach salaries, equipment and refreshments like sugar cane, water and bananas (and not rely on fundraising money from the U.S.) Also, school fees for themselves or their children. Finally, the gweno house (or similar agri-business social enterprises) has the potential to be replicated and thus, enable economic opportunity for other girls and women living in northern Uganda. We would also like to invest in the capacity of our players in staff through further skills courses in management, accounting and business. Girls Kick It hopes to expand income generating programs like our poultry houses and thus, reducing dependency on outside donors, and two, through establishing relationships with local small businesses and markets who are looking to purchase poultry and other local agri-goods. Our organization’s approach moving ahead is to encourage more creative, social enterprise and income-generating projects in Uganda, and collaborate with the foundations and organizations that believe this approach is the future of development.







