Voice Outreach Uganda launched Entrepreneurial and Livelihoods Development Program (ELD). The goals of the ELD program is to promote development that will help Uganda meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Specifically, our program is designed to help end poverty, improve nutrition and food security and promote sustainable agriculture. Our focus, although not exclusively, is on helping women and youths achieve gender equality and become economically empowered. Ultimately, ELD is designed to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth for our partners.

Cooperative Societies have been set help members identify profitable cash crops, establish marketing chains that make it possible for them to access farming equipment and inputs at lower cost, improve their productivity, and bulk their harvested crops together so that they get a higher price at market. The cooperatives also serve as savings and loans for their members because vulnerable people living in rural areas do not have access to traditional banks and credit unions.

We are helping the farmers identify what crops to grow as a group so that they can bulk their harvest together and get higher prices at market for their crops. And we are assisting with financial literacy training and helping the cooperative leadership manage the loans.

Development of successful cooperative societies will help our partners increase their productivity and improve their economic sustainability.