Empowerment, Mindset Shift, Transformation
“When I heard about the new opportunity at ACCESS where I work,” says Nakafeero Florence, WWK Program Lead of WWK’s CBO partner in Nakaseke, “I was a senior village health worker (VHT). I immediately knew that I would greatly benefit from the access to capital to buy wood nails to build bee hives. I feel like one of the luckiest beneficiaries of …
Loice Kisombera is a highly industrious member of the Bliss Feme community in the hills of Kasese District, where life is especially challenging given the terrain, the impact of climate change, and the lack of water. As she is primarily responsible for her family, she used her access to capital to buy coffee as her business. During the off season, …
Overjoyed by the experience of participating in the Creative Collaboration for 21st Century Leaders course held by Creative Action Institute in the fall of 2020 and supported by the Arthur B. Schultz Foundation, WWK’s Executive Director Milly Nalukwago and Program Director Aminah Nakayiza, along with program leaders from Bliss Feme Solomon Bukundika (not pictured) and Access Florence Nakafeero share that the experience was so life changing …
Since schools opened in January 2022, book-making has return to being a busy business for our CBO partners in Kasese and Nakaseke, both of whom have been provided paper cutting and binding machines from WWK. The demand for books is high and in Kasese for our local CBO partner Bliss Feme. The sub-county leadership said they will look for market …
Diana grew up in the infamous Luweero Triangle, where the Uganda Civil War had its roots. Her first six years of life were greatly impacted by the horrors of war. Poverty forced her to stop school at the primary level. She, like many girls living in poverty, married early birthed four children and was then abandoned and divorced by her …
“We are grateful for the funding from the Arthur B. Schultz Foundation that made it possible for us to be trained by Girl Up Initiative Uganda in how to manage domestic violence and to encourage reproductive health. The increased dependency in the homes of WWK women members because of the Covid lockdown has caused an uptick in gender-based violence in our communities. Aminah and …
In the spring of 2019, our local partners engaged in a vision workshop held by With Women Kisoboka. The moxie of our women members revealed how they are natural business entrepreneurs with a deep desire to better the lives of their children and their community.
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