UMATU Centre's wall is going up. Deo and Mohammed travelled to the neighbouring district of Mbulu to check out the availability of piglets to purchase for our women's household piggery activities. UMATU, Nderingo and Naisosion, our new financial officer, are spending the week immersed in SACCOS training with the District Cooperative Officer in order for UMATU to take the next step in their process of becoming a full-fledged Savings and Credit Co-operative Society. Co-operatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. As a Co-operative Society, to borrow from the International Co-operative Alliance's definition, UMATU will officially be an "autonomous association of people united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled enterprise". The photo shows them taking a break from training to throw a soccer ball around.
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