Wanda Goat milk ice cream

Between 2013 and 2015, it is estimated that more than 500,000 young Ugandan children died. Of these deaths, nearly half were associated with undernutrition. Undernutrition is responsible for four in 10 deaths of children under five. Its estimated the health cost of children s undernutrition-related illnesses to be more than UGX 525 billion, most of which was used for treating undernutrition and associated illnesses.

 Our focus is to provide competitive and affordable goat milk ice cream in different flavours to improve the nutrition levels among children and pregnant women. Goat milk is a powerhouse of protein, healthy fats, vitamins, iron, and other essential nutrients. It helps in providing sufficient energy to a growing child. We realized that most children do not like taking goats milk directly because of its taste since they were used of cow milk so we started goat milk ice cream with different flavours.

Globally in 2020, 149 million children under 5 were estimated to be stunted (too short for age), 45 million were estimated to be wasted (too thin for height), and 38.9 million were overweight or obese (WHO, 2020). Around 45% of deaths among children under 5 years of age are linked to undernutrition. These mostly occur in low- and middle-income countries. At the same time, in these same countries, rates of childhood overweight and obesity are rising. The developmental, economic, social, and medical impacts of the global burden of malnutrition are serious and lasting, for individuals and their families, for communities and for countries.

In 2016, the country experienced an acute food shortage, with up to 1.6 million people food insecure and a further 9.3 million reported to be food stressed (World Bank 2017). Almost one-third of children under 5 years in Uganda are stunted. Stunting increases with age, peaking at 37 percent among children 18-35 months. Our focus is to provide competitive and affordable goat milk ice cream in different flavours to improve the nutrition levels among children and pregnant women.

Our focus is to provide competitive and affordable goat milk ice cream in different flavours and grams to improve the nutrition levels among children and pregnant women. We hope this will meet immediate and along term needs of the market. Therefore WANDA GOAT MILK ICE CREAM was started up. This has improved the nutrition status of children since they easily take it. One 200ml serving of goats' milk provides 14% of the NRV for vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid), which helps the body produce energy and reduces tiredness. We have created market for the goat milk from the rural goat farmers. Atleast we have over 10 goat milk suppliers. We have also created employment opportunities for the different youth in our community i.e we employ 70% of employees policy are female as way create gender equality. Given the nutrition benefits associated with our products, there is a huge market potential both in Uganda and East Africa.

We primary target children between 1-5years of age and pregnant women with low nutrition levels; secondarily focus on men, youth, women of different age groups from different backgrounds. We have also created market for the goat milk from the rural goat farmers. Atleast we have over 10 goat milk suppliers. We have also created employment opportunities for the different youth in our community i.e we employ 70% of employees policy are female as way create gender equality.

Our problem, solution and our target population are aligned with the goals of the Fellowship.  Our solution covers malnutrition challenge mostly among children and pregnant women with low nutrition levels, Goat milk is a powerhouse of protein, healthy fats, vitamins, iron, and other essential nutrients. It helps in providing sufficient energy to a growing child thus need for Wanda goat milk ice cream.  We primarily focus on children aged 1-5 years and pregnant women with low nutritional levels to improve their nutrition levels.

Currently we are operating in Bunamwaya Wakiso. The district currently has a total population of 2,007,700 with a growth rate of 4.1%. The population density is 700 persons per square kilometer.

The major product that WANDA GOAT MILK ICE CREAM currently focuses on is selling goat milk ice cream. Most of the Ice cream flavours on the market are of cow milk, and fruits. Therefore we stand out as we deal in goat milk that is more nutritious. We our selling point has been the health benefits that come with consuming our products and we are only producers of goat milk ice cream as of now.We provide competitive and affordable goat milk ice cream in different flavours and different sizes to improve the nutrition levels among children. We have created market for goat milk from rural goat farmers. Quality and value addition has been emphasised in our business operations.

Our target market is urban centers in Central Uganda. For example, we market our products in Kampala. Kampala has a population of over 7 million people, of these over 2.5 million people are children. Given the nutrition benefits of our products, we target to market to mostly parents with children in and around Kampala.

in the next year we shall focus on entirely the whole country Uganda, according to the 2019 revision of the World Population Prospectsthe total population was 42,729,036 in 2018, compared to only 5,158,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2015 was 48.1 percent, 49.4 percent was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.5 percent was 65 years or older.

In the next five years we shall focus on East African countries, Eastern Africa population is equivalent to 5.71% of the total world population. Eastern Africa ranks number 1 in Africa among subregions ranked by Population.

Since nutrition is a cross-cutting issue with economic, socio-cultural, political, and biomedical dimensions, it is imperative that all sectors of the economy play their roles to achieve the goal and objectives of this plan. We will therefore work with other stakeholders/ partners / actors in malnutrition cases. This will help us to know the magnitude of the problem and determine also how far our activities/ operations impact on the community.

Full time employees are 15 employees

Part time employees are 20 employees

10 goat farmers are our suppliers

At WANDA GOAT MILK ICE CREAM, we hire people that are qualified, hardworking, and creative, result driven, customer centric and are ready to work to help us build a prosperous business that will benefit all the stake holders (the owners, workforce, and customers).

 As a matter of fact, profit-sharing arrangement is made available to all our senior management staff and it will be based on their performance for a period of five years or more as agreed by the board of trustees of the company. In view of the above, we have hired qualified and competent hands to occupy the following positions;

• Chief Operating Officer
• General Manager
• Human Resources and Admin Manager
• Accountant / Cashier
• Sales and Marketing Executive
• Field Employees
• Front Desk Officer
• casual workers
• Technicians

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As CEO i still believe that need to be more equipped with human capital because it is very important to learn more about human resource skills like talent search, employee development. more so, financials is another area that need to improve, yes i have someone in charge of my financials of the business but as person i believe that need more.

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