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Ashoka identifies and invests
in leading social entrepreneurs
worldwide, and has supported the
LiA vision since 2001 | |
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Opok Farms |
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Prospects for sustained peace in Northern Uganda are promising. So
promising that the Ugandan Government is encouraging all the people living
in overcrowded IDP camps to start thinking about moving back home. Hooray!
But going home is not going to be easy for anyone after
20 years - no schools, no health services and no jobs means there isn't much
to resettle to. The challenges are worst for the region's thousands of
orphaned families who've lost everyone, been disconnected from their family land
(many don't know where it is!), and now
have nowhere at all to go home to.
In partnership with Life in Africa, Opok Farms is a 5000 acre
commercial organic farming and
eco-tourism development in Amuru District, that will provide sufficiency
farm living and innovative approaches to educating the youth and children in
150 child-headed families.
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Read how the
Opok Farms project started |
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Starting in 2007, Opok Farms will also provide jobs for approximately 150
workers who are former residents of the area, recruited from nearby Koch Goma
and Alero IDP
camps 10 miles away.
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Plant
an acre of impact before 31 August
2007 and be rewarded with over $200 in discounts on more of the
kind of impact you want to see over the next 7 years!
>> Read more |
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WE Market Place |
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Opok Farms |
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Plant Your Impact
Help LiA invest in
sustainable living & education for child-headed families in
Northern Uganda |
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$200 / acre
will clear, plant and harvest 1 acre of organic farmland in
2007, and entitles you to
$210 in discounts on future
WE Marketplace shopping cart transactions.
Plant your impact in the farm today... then watch as Northern
Uganda's most vulnerable children grow! |
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Opok Farms |
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Parcel
Your Impact
Help LiA invest in
sustainable living & education for child-headed families in
Northern Uganda |
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$50 / month
for 4 months will
clear, plant and harvest 1 acre of organic farmland in 2007,
and entitles you to
$210 in discounts on future
WE Marketplace transactions.
This is a
monthly recurring payment of $50/mo. for 4 months,
making a total of $200 in impact planted! |
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WE Community |
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IDP Camp residents are involved in
planning for
the Opok Farms project |
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An exciting number of LiA members, volunteers and
supporters from at least 4 continents are now mobilizing resources and
actively planning to be directly involved in building the Opok Farms
project, starting this year.
Together we are creating an exciting model for
war-affected community development that connects new and old ideas in
sufficiency farming, impact-tourism, environmental volunteerism,
microfinance, solar power, and innovative educational approaches to
serve a war-affected population's special needs.
Life in Africa's 3rd WE Center in Uganda will
eventually connect the Opok Farms community of worker and child-families to
ongoing WE Network
activities in Kampala and Gulu, and to our global community of supporters
here online. |
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Africa 4 Africa |
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IDP Outreach
programs involve WE Center Kampala and Gulu members in helping camp
families plan for resettlement |
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HDC²
- help volunteers from East Africa be a part of building and spreading
the Opok Farms ideas |
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Crafts 4 Causes |
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Internet 4 Change |
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Creating digital villages in our rural communities discusses
options for connecting the farm to the rest of the world. |
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The
BOSCO Uganda
project currently offers the most likely source of bandwidth at Opok
Farms |
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Planning 4 Growth |
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Plant your impact
@ $200/acre before August 31 2007, then watch the children grow... |
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Join the
Opok
Farms Investment Planning Group on Onet |
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Read about
how the project started |
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Life
in Africa's Child |
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Child
Selection & survey process (starts late June 2007) |
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WE Images |
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Africa 4 Africa |
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IDP Outreach
activity reports (coming end June 2007) |
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Crafts 4 Causes |
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Internet 4 Change |
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Owner of Opok Farms,
Norbert Okec, works professionally as systems administrator on the
BOSCO Uganda
project for community connectivity in Northern Uganda |
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Planning 4 Growth |
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 Witness
the destruction of war and rekindle the hope to
rebuild, on the first
Journey to Opok Farms in 20 years. |
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Life
in Africa's Child |
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Ocan Caeser, age 14 and looking after 2 younger than himself |
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IDP Camp Conditions |
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Plant your acre of impact, then watch right here to
see it grow in living color.
We're counting on plenty of volunteers and other
visitors to make sure we've got lots of photos and reports to share as
the Opok Farms project develops. |
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WE Events |
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Life in Africa's Founder,
Ashoka Fellow Christina Jordan, will be visiting US cities in the
midwest and East Coast this summer on a fundraising/speaking tour
to promote Life in Africa's programs for children. |
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Connect
with Christina if you'd like her to make a July-August
presentation about Life in Africa's Child to your club, church or
family group.
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