Author Archives: The Story Teller Poverty can be defined not
only as the lack of incomes but also the lack of means to
satisfy basic social needs as well as feeling powerless to break
out of the cycle of poverty, insecurity of a person and
property. Poverty has faces and is caused by factors including
among others inadequacies in access to natural resources, human
factors, financial assets, social capital and physical
infrastructure Uganda remains one of the poorest countries of
the world. Poverty level was recorded at 31.1% in 2006according
to the UNDP 2006, Uganda Human Development Report ranking. In
terms of numbers, over 7 million people live in chronic poverty
according to a research on chronic poverty. Poverty is also
mainly a rural phenomenon with 48% of the rural population
living below the absolute poverty line compared to 16% of the
urban dwellers. It is important to note that the greatest
percentage of the rural population is composed of women. Women
are said to be the poorest of the poor. This hig