The Yoba for life foundation is spreading the Yoba for life concept throughout Uganda as we speak. The last couple of months the interns Dries Habraken and Barbara van der Biezen have been supporting the Yoba for life foundation.
The Yoba for life foundation is spreading the Yoba for life concept throughout Uganda as we speak. The last couple of months the interns Dries Habraken and Barbara van der Biezen have been supporting the Yoba for life foundation.
The Yoba for life concept is evolving really quickly and for the good. The collaboration between the Yoba for life foundation and the UIRI team is developing perfectly. The new Yoba for life foundation interns Dries Habraken and Barbara van der Biezen are currently in Kampala, Uganda to perform several
Growing of L. rhamnosus yoba in mutandabota, a delicious dairy product found in Southern Africa was done successfully in a rural area in Binga, Zimbabwe. Mutandabota is produced by mixing dry baobab pulp and milk. Sensory evaluation studies were also done on Yoba mutandabota.
The conference and workshop “workshop on creating access to probiotic technology in Uganda” was held in the conference hall on UIRI campus in Kampala. The conference was a big success and twelve dairy producers immediately took a Yoba starter back home.
The Yoba drink was handed out to the children of St. Mary’s junior school in Katete during their morning break.
The Life Dairy Factory of Fred Kaggwa in the remote village of Katete was also visited. This is the place where the school feeding programme was set up.
Mid January Remco and his family left for Uganda. Their luggage contained biological material for the new Yoba formula: freeze-dried bacteria serving as a starter for making the Yoba dairy drink.
In January 2013 the Yoba mission continues with a novel yoba dairy formula containing Lactobacillus rhamnosus yoba 2012! After isolation of the yoba bacterium from a dairy product, followed by a detailed genetic characterization, we succeeded in the production of billions of yoba bacteria at a producer of starter cultures
It’s already one month since I’m back in Switzerland from Uganda – how time flies! Beginning of September my father and I went to Uganda for a two week holiday, in the same time we wanted to visit the small village of Kateete.
After the successful introduction of Yoba by Tiziana, Bernd and Christiaan it is great to see that Fred and his Life Dairy team manage to grow the healthy probiotic Yoba bacteria in the milk of Ugandan cows. In the attached pictures you see how Fred is now weekly making Yoba