Mining and social inclusion

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    Community development department: June — July monthly report 2006
    (Barrick (Bulyanhulu), 2006) Barrick
    During the months of June and July Community Department focused mainly on capacity building through training. We have and are still conducting training to enable village councils, PRA committees and other production group to be able to implement and manage development plans developed during PRA phase I and II. Men and women are the targeted audience during the training. The department had maintained a close interaction with local communities as well as with policy makers at village and district levels. To start with, the housing scheme is progressing relatively well; Electrification project is also going on well, some houses have been connected with power and TANESCO have opened an office at Sodexho where LUKU meters are being sold to customers. Within the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), the department is currently busy with capacity building activities through a series of training programmes such as train PRA committees formulated during PRA Phase II. Other training includes, Food Vending, gardening and farm management. The focus of such training had been to equip various committee members and local leaders with basic skills to be able to manage their community development plans. In its mission to empower farmers, The Community Development Department through the farmer's supporting scheme have engaged itself to improve agricultural practices in the communities by making sure that all gardeners in Bugarama ward are supported by being trained on improved gardening practices, providing them gardening inputs and finding them a market for their products. In July Food vendors drawn from all villages received training on PHAST, food preparation and nutrition. The PHAST approach helps people to feel more confident about themselves and their ability to take action and make improvements in their communities. Feelings of empowerment and personal growth are as important as the physical changes, such as cleaning up the environment or building latrines. The need to conduct training to food vendors was felt due to the fact that Mining activities tend to attract a large number of people and hence periodic rapid population increase. There is a large number of immigrants in villages around Buly mine site ( Kakola village in particular). Majority of these people including KMCL'S workforce rely on food vendors for food and drinks. Food quality and nutrition issues remain a challenge to be tacked if we need a healthy and happy workforce and the community at large. It is on the above ground that community development conducted the said training to enable food vendors prepare quality and nutritious.