The predicament of women in Uganda also bread winners who no longer afford to provide basic needs like food to their families due to the covid-19 pandemic crisis, coupled with HIV/AIDS is driving these already vulnerable women headed families into horrible situations and obliterating their past progress toward self-reliance. Your donation will help us provide small loan enterprise start-ups and health care kits with essential needs to these women to help them bounce back and thrive.
The destruction caused by lack in childhood can be severe and the impact of child poverty can transcend generations. In addition, poverty is one of the root causes of violence and the exploitation, abuse and neglect of children, such as child labour, trafficking, sexual exploitation and child marriage. Child poverty hinders children's development, their educational outcomes, job prospects, health and behaviour, often resulting in the chronic intergenerational transmission of poverty.
Healing from trauma counselling and training in entrepreneurship, Savings culture, sewing, and embroidery, cookery, and agribusiness trade coupled with small loans access will enable 300 vulnerable women the opportunity to bounce back to work by setting their own small businesses and feed their children. On the other hand PROWE -Savings and Credit Society (PROWE-SACCO SEETA) will be established to grow women's savings and provide credit to the women affected by covid 19 pandemic
The will settle affected women and marginalized girls for self-employment units, giving them a better future and empowered to participate in decision-making processes on issues related to their dignified lives and that of their children. It will ensure sustainability and scalability for financial services that is of consistent quality and durability, encouraging the women to empower themselves by rebuilding both emotionally and physically and ultimately raise their unique Potential.
