Climate change and Environmental conservation
Climate change is a serious problem in the current era with global warming affecting most of the
countries in the world and Africa and most particularly Uganda is being affected. As one way to
keep the planet earth health to enable human stay, Mother of Hope Foundation Uganda has
undertaken a lead in ensuring that it puts best conservation practices together with the
community by planting trees, planting of bamboo and indigenous trees around Nyamwamba to
support water catchment and control flooding, control of wastes majorly solid waste (polythene
and plastic bottles in the community of Nyamwamba and the Municipality at large). The
organization operating in an urban setting, however the high level of vulnerability in the
communities, the organization is encouraging use of environmentally friendly means of cooking
energy that will create a carbon free emission and at the same time use of agricultural wastes to
make charcoal briquettes to save our environment from pollution, deforestation and the high
prices of charcoal that is not sustainable.
The organization also carries out waste management campaigns in communities and through
media as one way of restoring and conserving our environment.
Our community is also surrounded by both Queen Elizabeth and Mount Rwenzori National parks
where there are high levels of Human-Wildlife Conflicts and as an organization, we take a lead
in negotiating with the management of the parks together with the community authority to put
appropriate measures, conservation education on to co-exist with the wildlife around the
communities and to support park to sustainably conserve the wildlife.