You can support Diana and her savings group by contributing towards the purchase of raw materials like adhesive and book binding needles, or you can help her train more women from the community make work books. There are hundreds of women across Jinja interested in starting livelihoods projects like Diana’s. You can help them reach their goals by providing general support to livelihoods development in Jinja.

Support Diana by contributing towards the purchase of raw materials, help her train more women, or support livelihoods projects like Diana’s for women across Jinja.

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For the organized urban poor problems are opportunities. The elders in the Jinja Federation, concerned that so many of their youth were unemployed, hit upon the idea of manufacturing building materials themselves. That is how the Jinja Materials Workshop was conceived. Before long the Jinja Federation constructed a building materials workshop where youth from Jinja’s slum are trained to manufacture affordable and eco-friendly building materials. The site has now become a learning centre for the manufacturing of innovative, climate-friendly building materials. At the same time it gives local youth valuable skills training and small but regular income from the sale of their products. But more than half the youth in Uganda’s second largest city are still unemployed and there are many public facilities and houses to be built. Joseph Serunjogi and the federation in Jinja need help to make that happen, and in other parts of Uganda, more Federation groups are requesting support to start similar income-generating projects of their own.

You can support Joseph and the Jinja Federation by contributing towards training more youth in the Jinja Materials Workshop, or you can help the Uganda federation extend this project to other cities where the demand for youth employment, public amenities, and houses is just as high.

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When we visited the Craft Beer Widows at their tavern in Jinja, it was packed. But it is one thing manufacturing and producing enough beer to live from hand to mouth. It is another thing to create a sustainable small business. The Craft Beer Widows need your support to purchase ingredients like millet, sorghum, and yeast, to upgrade their equipment, and to provide training to more women so that they can take their production and sales to the next level. In addition, there are hundreds of other women in savings groups across Jinja who have been inspired by the Craft Beer Widows to start their own livelihoods projects and need your support to get things started.

Support Joyce and her savings group by contributing towards the purchase of millet, sorghum and yeast and beer brewing equipment, or you can offer livelihood support for other women in Jinja interested in starting small businesses like this one.

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