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EUROPE EMPOWERMENT CENTER

CHARLIE KING EUROPEAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(IN CHARGE OF NORTHERN UGANDA)

LIJIF.ORG is dedicated to go where help, services and humanitarian causes are. During a meeting with the Congressmen in Washington DC in 2009, the Founder did have a discussion with Congressman Michael Burgess who asked why he chose to go back to Uganda to serve. Nelson’s response surprised other congressmen who were available including Congressman Tom Cole, Congressman Harnslang and many others and he said, “I do not think, anyone is more prepared to serve any people except those of their own kind.” In that he went on to elaborate that him as Muganda, he knows what type of food the Baganda would eat and not eat, he knew what was their most desired need and what ailments they are likely to have in case of a disaster. He did mention that why would we take mosquito nets to people who need food. He asked why would we give shoes to people who have been walking bare footed for centuries when their main goal are water pumps. He mentioned “it would take people from those areas to help themselves with donors and supporters as backbones. “When a donor plays a role of “let me do it for you brother”, then the recipient will never get out of his situation.” And when a donor thinks for the recipient, then a donor will never have a right to think.” If allowed to think, the recipient will save time, energy that would have been twice as much for the donor hence the equilibrium coming to a full destination as a means of providing the right product to the donor.” Those were his exact words and so for Europe, Charlie King a celebrated musician would become the Ambassador of Northern Uganda in Sweden as a team member for LIJIF. He was chosen to head any developments in Northern Uganda Starting from Gulu.

There are several projects destined for Northern Uganda among which BOREHOLES FOR WATER Every few miles so clean water can be available all the time The Process of getting a borehole-drilling Rig is on the way instead of what the organization has been using in areas like Bugerere where manual labor is used and welding is done on the top.

-A FISH processing plant and Commercial Fish Ponds (Aquaculture)
	Disease control and distribution of Microbicides
Literacy Education for Young adults and the Teen Aged Youth. A program we called MAGIC PEN.
Irrigation and crop rotation as a tool to settle nomadic migration due to lack of water and grass. A consultancy firm owned by Charlie King offered to do the Irrigation research system design and put together a portfolio that can help manage the entire irrigation program: This will create projects for Rice, Cocoa, Corn, Sim Sim the major cash crop for Northern Uganda and much more.
*A carefully planned irrigation design can lower maintenance, increase crop production, reduce earthworks and ultimately save MONEY
	Water Management: Using the latest in water management technology, modeling the water systems across your property and provide recommendations on the most suitable water control and diversion strategies to minimize environmental and financial losses.
Water Reliability : If you know the status of water supply to your property you can make informed decisions regarding water supply and use. Using computer models that simulate the long-term performance of your enterprise (irrigation, intensive animal production, etc) rational decisions on the reliability of water supply can be made. The models use historical rainfall, evaporation, runoff and stream flow records. Water sources include river flood harvesting, overland flow harvesting, bores, gully dams and irrigation allocation. The models can be adapted to any configuration of water storages, pumps, sumps and irrigation programs.
Surface Irrigation : Using Irrigate surface irrigation measuring equipment and computer simulation models. We will measure the amount of water applied during a surface irrigation event. The irrigation can then be optimized. Various parameters can be changed to see how they affect the amount of water applied to the crop and therefore, which changes will give the greatest efficiency gains. These parameters can be either management parameters (flow rate, cut off time) or infrastructure parameters (run length, slope). *Water trading per regional needs. Reservoirs can be used for Fish Rearing and as well emergency water transfer to areas that are too dry.

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