Museveni tips women on wealth creation

ENTEBBE.

Ensuring food security and enough income through cost-effective wealth creation projects will help to fight household poverty in rural areas, President Museveni has said.

The president made the remarks while meeting a delegation of Amolatar Women Informal Enterprising Group, at State House, Entebbe on Tuesday.

Museveni advised the women from Amolatar District to look at wealth creation as a sustained campaign and to choose cost-effective enterprises such as livestock and poultry rearing, coffee and fruit production that can give them food security and income.

“You should know what you can do at your home that can make you earn more money and also have food security,” the President emphasised.

The delegation was led by State minister for Micro finance Ms Caroline Amali Okao, who is also the Amolatar woman MP.
The President also pledged Shs288 million towards the completion of various grain- milling machines in the district. In turn, the women pledged their total support to President Museveni as their sole candidate in the forthcoming presidential elections.

On job creation, the President urged parents to support their children to acquire skills that empower them to get employment. “Education that enables one to speak English is good, but you must have skills in order to get jobs. Get skills that society wants or can buy easily. Skills are a form of wealth as they enable people to get jobs and empower one to be wealthy,” he said.

He also urged Ugandans against consumption of alcohol and immoral life styles that abuse one’s health, saying health is God-given wealth.