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From UGX 500 to Two Million: How a Self-Help Group Has Changed Lives in Kaberamaido
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From UGX 500 to Two Million: How a Self-Help Group Has Changed Lives in Kaberamaido

In 2022, Agnes borrowed 50,000 shillings from Mon Kanyakino Self Help Group to start a business of buying and selling silverfish, tomatoes, and groundnuts. After repaying the loan, Agnes now raises school fees, clothes, and scholastic materials for her children through the micro-business. She also contributes to the construction of her family’s permanent house and...

Joyce Mary: From a school dropout to a community leader
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Joyce Mary: From a school dropout to a community leader

My name is Joyce. I am 35 years and I want to thank God for what He has done for me through Share An Opportunity Uganda (SAO U). I dropped out of school in Senior One because my parents could not afford the school fees payments. I immediately got married and produced children. Now, I...

Dimirira CLA advocates for water well rehabilitation.
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Dimirira CLA advocates for water well rehabilitation.

Before the formation of the Dimilira Cluster Level Association, the people of Bunyafa Sub-County in Sironko District suffered many issues in the community, among them a lack of access to clean water for drinking and domestic use. This exposed them to the risk of many preventable diseases, like typhoid, diarrhea, and dysentery. In November 2019,...

Planning together produces sweet yields for Families in Abim
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Planning together produces sweet yields for Families in Abim

I am Himran, a farmer from Aojapiro village, in Abim District. I have for long been engaged in subsistence farming. I used to earn very little yet endure so many challenges including inadequate school fees for children, poor dressing of family members, and inability to off-set medical bills due to low family income. They kept...

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Pastor Reaps Big from Better Coffee Management

Pastor John Makumbi from Luti Baptist Church has been involved in coffee growing for over 10 years. His yields were always low, and the quality poor. Each season, every year, brought unpleasant dwindling yields. But this now is a thing of the past. Share An Opportunity Uganda, a Child centered, Christian founded Non-Government Organization introduced...

Community radios of great benefit
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Community radios of great benefit

With the onset of COVID 19 in 2020 and the subsequent lockdown, it became hard for people to meet in groups or meetings yet this is one of the common means of interaction for people in rural communities. After a thorough study in partner communities in Abim District, it was noted that community radios would...

October 19, 2022October 19, 2022by
Joining hands for the good of the girl child
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Joining hands for the good of the girl child

Every 11 th of October, Uganda joins the rest of the world to mark the International Day of the Girl Child. This year, the commemoration is under the theme: the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights. The need to achieve the above...

October 11, 2022October 11, 2022by
How he became an Early Childhood Development teacher
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How he became an Early Childhood Development teacher

              As we walk across the school compound to a tree shade in the middle of the compound, he bends and picks up two bottle tops that are lying on the ground. Since they are plastic, I immediately think he has a plastic collection centre; since this has recently...

October 5, 2022October 5, 2022by
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