July 05, 2012
Fiona Byarugaba, is Program Management and Communications Officer at Grameen Foundation’s AppLab Uganda office, and MTN/Grameen Foundation Relationship Manager. We have included a excerpt of her blog post followed by a link to the full post.
Samson Sabiiti Olet’s goat was suffering from a disease unknown to him. In a state of panic, Samson met his village Community Knowledge Worker, or CKW, telling him that the goat’s body was covered in “white dots.” After the CKW looked at the goat, he opened his phone, and within seven minutes had discovered that Samson’s goat was affected by ticks. Once Samson – a farmer from Oyam district, Adagayella village – started following the CKW’s advice about how to treat the goat for ticks, all was well, and the goat has gotten its healthy appetite back again.
Community Knowledge Worker Simon Obwoya from Gulu with a farmer
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single footstep. Grameen Foundation helps the world’s poorest people to take those footsteps and lift themselves out of poverty by providing mobile phone-based solutions that address “information poverty” in the fields of agriculture, financial services, health and livelihoods.