{"id":1929,"date":"2025-06-17T10:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T10:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:31:45","slug":"i-am-grateful-to-the-government-and-wetland-users-kamida-mwanika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/i-am-grateful-to-the-government-and-wetland-users-kamida-mwanika\/","title":{"rendered":"I am grateful to the government and wetland users &#8211; Kamida Mwanika"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kamida Mwanika is my name. I am one of the community members who received goats<br>as an alternative livelihood that the government gave us for voluntarily vacating the<br>Mpologoma wetland.<br>I am a member of the Gemakumwino Group, which benefited from the goat enterprise. I<br>received three goats, which have since multiplied to six. I sold four because I didn\u2019t<br>have enough space to graze them. I was able to earn shs 700,000, out of which shs<br>550,000 was used to buy a bull.<br>The balance helped me handle other pressing needs including educating my children. I<br>have six children. One is at a technical school. One is in senior four. One is in Makerere<br>University, one got married and two are still at the Primary level.<br>I have plans to change the bull into a cow so it could produce, and I would be able to<br>milk. Part of the milk I would sell, while the balance improves our nutrition. I am<br>optimistic that my children will live a better life compared to when we hustled with<br>wetlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamida Mwanika is my name. I am one of the community members who received goatsas an alternative livelihood that the government gave us for voluntarily vacating theMpologoma wetland.I am a member of the Gemakumwino Group, which benefited from the goat enterprise. Ireceived three goats, which have since multiplied to six. I sold four because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gcf-success-stories","category-success-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwegatech.net\/mwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}