Environment Protection and Conservation:

As one of the main stays of mankind, the environment needs to be nurtured and constantly monitored. That the environment creates and recreates man cannot be disputed in any sense. Therefore we as the in﷓habitants of the earth have a great onus upon us to protect and conserve this environment from which we attain our being,

Action For Humanity has a detailed structure under our environmental protection and conservation program that is intended to correct the wrongs that society has inflicted and continues to inflict upon the environment. We are very confident that our outlined strategies as indicated on the chart below will lead us into achieving our final purpose of sustainable Environmental Resource use.
 

GOALS

1. To develop and improve the skills and capacities of the peasants in a bid to achieve a better environment in which they live and work.

2. To assist the peasants in their quest for maximum utilization of the resources offered by their environment.

The environment in Uganda is relied upon as an employer by over 85% of the whole population. It constitutes what may be described as a “built‑in” social security system and provides government with the bulk of its revenue. That the environment is vital to our well‑being is beyond dispute but when one looks at the producer, the man on the land, and his enterprise, one finds low income, hand tools, small acreage, wasteful usage, poor crop varieties, low yields, unproductive livestock and family living  conditions which even by the simplest standards leave much to be desired.

Although the government has done a lot in making the environment a key issue in most of its development initiatives, a lot still remains to be accomplished. It has been a consistent observation across space and time that the ideas of environmental protection and conservation have not trickled down well to the rural poor. There is gross abuse of the environment among the rural folk‑not because it is a deliberate agenda but because these poor people do not know the implications of their actions

As a consequence of the above scenario, the environment has been affected to a great extent. The poor agricultural systems and tools used have led to increased soil degradation, pollution of the natural drainage systems, deforestation and a lot of other detrimental effects. Unless a sound program is initiated either by government or non governmental organizations and institutions, these environmental concerns are likely to run out of control until they reach such a point as to be declared a national or regional emergency.

AFH in its work plan, intends to infiltrate the villages or the rural areas and attack the cause of this environmental degradation from its cause. This is because it is much better to treat and do away with the cause than to treat an effect. We therefore intend to make clear to those employed by the environment (especially agriculturalists) the importance of a healthy environment to the Country’s economic development.

AFH will engage its staff in developing knowledge and stimulating the application of Environmental protection and conservation methods through such activities as demonstration and extension services. In this way AFH will sell the techniques of environmental improvement and enhancement of the rural Communities by use of a community based approach.