Community Engagement and Brick Making Training
A grant from Seattle’s University District Rotary Club enabled the CBO to conduct the Community Engagement Process and Brick Making Training. The Community Engagement helps the community determine what its goals and aspirations are and what assets they have, or can develop, to achieve them. It focuses on collaboration, self-empowerment, and leadership.
The Rotary grant also allowed the community to purchase two brick making machines which make compressed, interlocking bricks, both curved and straight. These bricks are environmentally friendly and, as you can see, the machines can be used by both men and women! These machines will allow the community to build stronger houses and create a business to sell bricks.
A follow-up training will be held soon so the community can learn to make water cisterns from the bricks. This will help reduce the need for women and girls to fetch and carry water up and down the steep hills of Bududa to their homes.