Raising Rural Rabbits in Uganda

Aim

Raising Rural Rabbits is a project to encourage young people in rural Uganda to raise rabbits to support their ongoing school fees.

Ben and Suzan are friends and animal lovers and they have decided that during their school holiday break they want to start a project to breed rabbits in their local remote rural community in Pader, In Northern Uganda.  Pader is an area where there is no internet, minimal telephone service and children there feel very isolated from society and thus disempowered.  Ben and Suzan were selected last year as children who could develop a vision for their community and were brought to Kampala for one year's training in how to be a social entrepreneur as part of the Butterfly Project.

Butterfly staff teach vision development, problem solving, project management, accounting, ethics and ICT and we help the participants, who start between the age of 11-15, to develop the confidence to become changemakers.  Fundraising is also part of the training we give and we hope that you will be able to encourage these selfless children with your support for this project.

We need £60 which will cover the cost of buying rabbits, acquiring and making living quarters for the rabbits and food, while they are in Kampala.  In the rural areas, food will not be needed to be paid for.

This project closed unsuccessfully on 3rd November 2017