Good Bye Slums. Help 40 Uganda Women Build Homes.

Alice is one of our hopeful women crafters who are struggling to work at their businesses or raise crops back in the village in order to save up money for home building.  Like most of the Jinja women, the two years of Covid were very difficult and set them back on their savings goals.  

Even though those times were difficult, the women have persevered. Having loans available through their group's revolving loan project helped them immensely.  They were able to make adjustments, often starting new types of businesses of farming endeavors that would be successful in the changed economic environment.

Alice is showing us her one bedroom home in the slums including its outdoor shower structure. Both are very basic and falling down.  Her and her three children live in the one bedroom home that is probably no larger than a 10' x 12' space with a dirt floor. Even though there is electricity available in the slums, most people cannot afford it.  If you can afford it, it probably means you have one dim light bulb to light your home.

You need to bolt your door at night and keep watch on your dinner cooking over your outdoor stove lest the entire dinner and cooking pot be stolen!  And needless to say, it is very dangerous to raise young children, especially girls, in this environment.

That's why we too are very excited to begin the home building process so Alice and her children can move to safety and achieve her dreams!

We thank you for donations to this project and helping make this possible!

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