Dear All Unemployment and poverty are twin sisters or brothers. One leads to the other and vice versa. A lot has been said about unemployment and poverty. However,I would like to observe that poverty in West Nile may be looked at two dimensional angle. From modernisation theory perspective and from dependency theory perspective.
According to modernisation theorists ,individuals are largely to blame for their poverty situation. To them, the poor are poor because they are poor.And largely because of their mindset. On the other hand, the development theorists tend to blame external factors for their poverty conditions. They belief that their destiny is dependant on other exogenous factors. For instance, they will think that it is the globalisation that is making them poor or the government at macro level. At the micro level, they will think it is their friends, relatives, wives, hushands, name it. Their orientation is towards the dependency and blame syndrome. Having looked at these two theorists, where do I fall? I must say, I greatly share the views of modernisation theorists. It is a view, I have pursued with passion for the last fifteen years. The results are incredible. Together with some colleagues, we have transformed these passions into a fast growing company,known as SWC,with a vision to "create millionaries out of the ordinary". Our starting point is the mind. It is our earnest belief that regardless of who you are, where ever you are, with a clear vision, strategic plan nad thinking, you can turn your life around. I have just received a call to see a minister. I will continue next time.... Thank you Robert Anguzu On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:00:05 +0300 (EAT), westnilenet-request wrote > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. RE: High unempoyment & Poverty (Ronald Okuonzi) > 2. RE: High unempoyment & Poverty (oguzu lee) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 10:14:31 +0300 > From: Ronald Okuonzi <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [WestNileNet] High unempoyment & Poverty > To: westnilenet <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Dear Denis, > > I have modular courses on Small Business Management and I have > conducted several of such courses to such women groups and members > of village micro finance groups in Eastern Uganda. I am willing to > conduct training for these groups if you can organise them and we > arrange the appropriate time for conducting the training > > Regards > > Ronald Okuonzi > > Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 00:59:36 -0700 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] High unempoyment & Poverty > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > CC: > > GIlbert, John, and Modest, > > To eliminate poverty in West Nile, our people must always be selling > something (product or service). Masindi Gilbert referred to is > better off than West Nile because they are always selling. Theyve > enough food to eat and sell. Believe me, food security is the > foundation for poverty eradication. The westerners also say the > light they see today all started with establishing food security. > Unless people have food in their stomachs, they will not help > themselves; children won't go school, parents wont dig, and you can > be sure a number of things will stand-still. With food prices > skyrocketing each day, farmers in Masindi are fetching a lot of > money from maize production and its the reason behind ever > increasing number of privately sponsored students from Masindi in > institutions of higher learning. With my short term engagement in > agric sector, I can conclude that the relationship between market > and production is reciprocal. Its egg and children scenariowhat > comes first? To a ccess good markets, production (volume and quality) > is very important and so does market if people are to produce. > Whether there is market or not, I think food must be produced. > > Still on the doing nothing! Those who have had an opportunity to > traverse our region in the recent past will agree with me, most > people especially in rural areas are doing little to change their > situation. I therefore wonder if the adage 'every adversity carries > with it an equivalent seed of benefit' means anything to us. We are > not learning from the food insecurity, abject poverty, high level of > illiteracy, marginalization etc. In the past, evenings would find > people in their gardens during rain seasons but today its only women > you can find seriously engaged in production. Men are mainly in > trading centres drinking, eating muchomo, and enjoying hotel food. > Would we say people are trying to help themselves? Today if someone > ever wants to talk about hardworking people let him talk about the > Bakigaweve seen them work in different parts of the country. Ours > is no more. Its history unless we revive the spirit. > > Lack of political willnail on the top! The good news is that we've > all realized or experienced some sort of marginalization which > should have sharpened our zeal to fight the problem. Knowledge of > marginalization is not any better. Its just like having a beautiful > plan not acted on. It all trickles down to whether can do something > about this known problem. For example, in Maracha, politicians were > giving salt to women supposedly to empower them and this has been > happening on the watch of the elite. Before we point fingers at > others; we should take responsibility for our failures: failure to > hold our leaders accountable, for wrong or poorly defined priorities, > for lack of concrete regional plans, envy of one another and > failure to unite, failure to fight the dependence syndrome, etc. > > To sum up, i wish to reiterate the need for entrepreneurial > education in West Nile. Whereas ABE is the brilliant idea, we > shouldnt wait for government and NGOs to support such initiative. > For example in Feb, i organized a day's workshop for over 250 > protestant leaders from Maracha Archdeaconry, got facilitators from > Makerere University to train the leaders on how to come up with > income generating projects in their churches and families. That day > we these leaders were also trained on their role in the fight > against HIV?AIDs (prevention, control, and positive living) by > officials i got from TASO. We've scheduled similar training for over > 300 Catholic leaders in June. The whole idea is make churches self > sustaining. As we all know, our churches are heavily dependant on > struggling Christians and there is no way the churches will ever be > rich if the Christians are poor. The Christians cant also be rich > unless their leaders rich. All we now need in this arena is action > however s mall it maybe. Though I had to part with some small money, > i still cherish the sweetest reflection that my money is not lost > but invested in peoplethe greatest asset of our time. Besides, how > would life be like if we didn't have courage to attempt anything? I > think life is more meaningful if its lived for others so the most > imported thing on earth is not to win but to let others win even if > means slowing down your journey. > > There are could be over 10000 registered women groups in West Nile > who dire need of entrepreneurial skills. In Maracha alone, there 200 > women groups comprising 30 women in each group engaged in loan > saving associations. Though these women are able to mobilize savings, > they can not exhaust their savings because of lack of business > skills. In my short interaction with them, i discovered that they > have problems identifying business opportunities. Most of them > lacked business motivation and big goalsmeaning they are working > towards nothing. I'm therefore calling upon members of this forum > with skills and knowledge in business to come up with some basic > training content customized to address the needs of such women. > > Awadifo! > > Denis Lee Oguzu > > From: JOHNSON OMBIGA <[email protected]> > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:00:23 PM > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] High unempoyment & Poverty > > Hi John, > > This is a good idea. ABE, a mane that exists in my Ancestral Tree > given to a Great Son that crossed River Kaya through Gogoropa to > Olengaku, where the people of Ludara now live; would replace the > Adult Courses which Makerere University used to teach for those who > were unfortunate to get admitted to Makerere University. It used to > be called Extra Murial Studies. > > Adult education for those unfortunate sons and daughters of West > Nilers, particularly during the years of wars in Uganda would > benefit from the ABE classes. It would attract brilliant teachers > to volunteer their time to help their own brothers and sisters for a > minimum fee per hour. It also fits well with efforts to alleviate > both illiteracy and poverty among our people. > > I support it, but it would require an effort to sell it to Uganda > Government by an NGO, such as West Nile Commission, as suggested by > other members on the WestNileNet. > > Modesto > > --- On Wed, 5/20/09, JohnAJackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: JohnAJackson <[email protected]> > Subject: [WestNileNet] High unempoyment & Poverty > To: [email protected] > Received: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 2:58 PM > > Other Creative Job Creation Initiative > > a) Adult Basic Education (ABE): > We should seriously promote ABE program at every village/parish > level. ABE alone could create several hundred part-time jobs for > instructors of ABE. Lessons could be taught in the evenings or > weekends 2/3 times a week for 2.5 hrs. Church Parish hall, borrowing > a classroom from existing Primary schools or some other community > palce would a perefect venue. Encouraging adults who dropped out of > from either elementary or secondary school to pursue Vocational > Training may perhaps be one of the means to alleviate poverty. b) > Recruit and train young graduates in social sciences (Sociology, > Psychology degrees) to work as Youth Workers (Social Workers) or > Community Development Officers). This could create several job > opportunities at sub-county or Parish levels > > John J Avudria_______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet% WestNileNet is > generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). 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What would be > the most appropriate model of reaching this population? TOT > appraoch? Can a day's workshop be ideal? 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