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Langeti is a global approach, a response to the challenges Cooperative Growth – Uganda and its partners identified in Moyo District, West Nile region, Uganda. The name is actually inspired in a very widespread tradition among the different African peoples: The fireplace. It was traditionally started at the sunset, but due to the impact of the colonisation and the Capitalism, many communities already lost it. According to our situational analysis, this was the most important institution among the Ma’di in Moyo, that would gather the family around it to share everything we could imagine about human life. It was the place to tell stories and fairytales, teach lessons, discuss and resolve conflicts, establish punishments when necessary and, very importantly, share food. Each household would bring a dish to the Langeti and everybody would share the food until gotten over. Then, next dish would be brought out with the same idea.
From the features of this ancient institution, we identified three core values that must had been also part of the natural communities, or at least would fit very well in their setting:
Synergy
Synergy
It is a way of understanding nature, not only human nature, through which our existence is a permanent interaction with the environment, sometimes in terms of competition, but mostly in terms of cooperation, bringing efforts together.
Integration
Integration
This value speaks about not leaving anyone or anything outside, it is about the deep understanding of belonging and identity. In a community, no one is expendable, therefore connections between the members have to be developed.
Empowerment
Empowerment
When everything is shared, knowledge is always transferred from those ones who have to those ones who don’t yet have. There is no possession of the knowledge, there is just sharing it thus making the entire community stronger.
To be able of reinforcing such values in the given communities in which Cooperative Growth – Uganda operates, Langeti has to be conformed by a set of actions that would lead there. For that purpose, three different sub-projects are going on in Moyo.
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