EMPOWERING WOMEN
TRANSFORMING LIVES
RISE Uganda supports women in Mayuge, Uganda
by providing entrepreneurial opportunities within a faith-filled community, empowering them to provide for their families and bring transformation to their communities.
THE STRUGGLE
In rural Uganda, women carry the majority of the burden and responsibility to care for their children and other dependents. In addition to their own, many women are also caring for neighbours and relatives’ children orphaned by HIV aids.
They do this despite being some of the most chronically under-resourced individuals on the planet. Most women in Mayuge are illiterate and lacking in skills, having never had the opportunity to go to school.
These women earn on average just £5 month. Many are reduced to begging.
Fathers are largely absent owing to stigmas and stereotypes concerning their role in the home, and many are little more than teenagers, themselves having grown up without fathers to guide them.​
THE SOLUTION
​​It has been shown that the economic empowerment of women in poverty stricken areas, transforms and uplifts not just families but whole communities and is considered a vital step towards promoting national economic growth and eradicating extreme global poverty.​​​
RISE Uganda empowers the lives of these precious women by:​​​​
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Supporting them with business start-up finance and entrepreneurial opportunities, and by providing ongoing training, including book keeping and financial management so that they can set up and successfully run their own micro-enterprises, enabling them to support themselves and their families.
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Inviting them to belong to a transformative Christ-centred faith-filled community of like-minded women where they can learn and grow together and find friendship, support, love and encouragement.
MAYUGE
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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James 1:27