Okere City, Uganda: A People-Power Model of Agriculture, Solar, and Social Enterprise

AFRICA400 HandRadio recently featured special guest Ojok Okello Founder and Developer of Okere City, a village in Otuke District of Northern Uganda.

Source: Medium / Ojok

Okello wanting to reconnect with his identity and ancestral roots discovered a village of 4,500 people waiting to be birthed into a sustainable city in a changing African geopolitical landscape. Founded in 2019 upon his return to Okere City; it now stands as a holistic ecosystem and model which promotes an integrated rural development of generational possibility and potential based upon a participatory cultural process of economic development inclusive of all families. To volunteer, donate, or travel to Okere City in Northern Uganda visit okerecity.org.

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