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Africa | Uganda | Entrepreneurship

Tribe + Glory Aims to Raise up Female Entrepreneurs in Uganda

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Tribe + Glory’s cofounders Loren Thomas and Caragh Bennet jetted away from their Uganda home office for a few days of business meetings in New York. All about women’s empowerment, their business model is an unusual one that helps entrepreneurs gain the skills they need to succeed while also helping to make Tribe + Glory accessories. More than half of their earnings go back to savings for their own business plans and the remaining amount allows workers and their families to live above the poverty line. The end result is that they complete their runs at Tribe + Glory equipped with the sk
Africa | Uganda | Agriculture

How This Entrepreneur Built A Profitable Business Empowering Ugandan Women

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In Uganda, where many women earn as little as $3 per month, a new generation of agri-entrepreneurs are lifting themselves out of poverty. They are doing so with the support of KadAfrica, a social business that grants out-of-school girls with a small plot of land, passionfruit vines, and a marketplace to sell the fruit. KadAfrica provides intensive training in entrepreneurship, financial literacy and gender empowerment. Thus far, 1,650 girls have boosted their incomes to $20 – $50 per month—representing a 600% increase in income per participant. Some young women have used the money to ex
Africa | Uganda | Entrepreneurship

UAE charity supports Ugandan restaurant to empower women entrepreneurs

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Orphans in Uganda have been given the chance of a brighter future thanks to a UAE-inspired pioneering project that also aims to empower female entrepreneurs. Abu-Dhabi based philanthropic organisation Monyati Initiatives has funded a Dh91,825 project to renovate and upgrade a pizza restaurant in Entebbe that, it hoped, would become a sustainable business. Working with Malayaka House Orphanage, Monyati Initiatives believes the restaurant will provide an environment for the girls to learn. “This has been a dream come true, and our girls could not be happier,” said Monja Wolf, Abu Dhab
Africa | Uganda | Crimes

Trafficked into sex work, Uganda women stunned to be duped by other women

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At first, Sarah Nakintu was grateful to her friend for alerting her to job opportunities in marketing and retail in Dubai. Nakintu, a 27-year-old woman from the Ugandan capital Kampala, trusted her friend, who had worked in the United Arab Emirates and seemed successful with plenty of money. She followed her friend's instructions. Present a valid passport to the recruiter who would organise airline tickets and a visa. Once the documents were in order, Nakintu paid the recommended "token of thanks" to her friend - $200 in cash. Like many others, Nakintu said she had not suspected her friend
Africa | Uganda | Health

How Mobile Tech Is Helping Ugandan Women Protect Their Vaginal Health

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Nobody likes going to the gynecologist. But for many, that distaste is a luxury—women throughout Uganda and other parts of Africa often lack access to basic gynecological care. That’s why a group of Ugandan students developed a brand new app, allowing women to diagnose themselves from home—without having to meet a doctor. Known as The Her Heatlth BVKit, the new product includes both the app (called Vaginosis) and a reusable pH sensor. Women simply pee into the cup and then use the sensor to detect pH levels. Once detected, the app will tell women whether or not there’s a likely in
Africa | Uganda | Corruption

Follow the Money: How Women of Uganda Made the Corrupt Accountable

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Several months ago in Uganda's remote Kole district, a teacher at Baramindyang Primary School discovered that members of the local Parent Teacher Association had embezzled some 700,000 Ugandan shillings -- about $225 -- from the school. Appalled, the teacher managed to get her hands on a photo of the meeting at which the embezzlers allegedly committed the theft. She then gathered parents and local leaders together for a meeting and threatened to show the police the picture. In short order, the embezzlers handed the money back. That happy ending is thanks to a program of the Women of Uganda
Africa | Uganda | Culture

Why women in Uganda don’t care about work-life balance

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Consistent research is highlighting the disadvantage faced by women, particularly mothers, in today's modern workplace. The most recent data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency suggests that women in management are paid 45% less than their male counterparts. Many women are torn between trying to be a 100% excellent worker and 100%perfect mother, and often feel like a failure at both as they are stretched too thin. I think it serves no purpose to dwell on all the difficult things that women have to deal with. We seem to reinforce this caricature of ourselves as working mother
Africa | Uganda | Activism

The Ugandan women who strip to defend their land

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A group of elderly women in a village in northern Uganda did something culturally taboo to express their anger - they began to strip. In front of two government ministers, soldiers, policemen and hundreds of people from their community, they started removing their clothes. Off came their tops - then some of the women pulled down their wrappers and skirts so they were completely naked. "Lobowa, Lobowa!" they chanted, which means "our land" in the Luo dialect. Others remained seated, but showed support by wailing in unison with with the women as they stripped. The incident, which fo
Africa | Uganda | Environment

Women in Uganda Can’t Use Toilets Without Fear of Disease or Rape

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Mary Businge was in the doctor's seat, diagnosing a patient, when the municipal workers arrived. They were in a foul mood as they rolled up their sleeves and descended into a trench filled with sewage. The trench, stretching across the Nankulabye slum in Uganda's capital city Kampala, was where the slum's roughly 40,000 residents dropped their waste: discarded cans, torn shoes, playing cards, cigarette butts, documents, sanitary napkins, and bags containing feces. When it rained, the acrid water rose like a breathing thing, and so the city government sent their workers to empty the trench.
Africa | Uganda | Activism

Angry women strip naked in Ugandan land dispute protest

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A long-running district border dispute in northern Uganda took a new turn when a group of elderly local women stripped naked before two visiting ministers, in protest against perceived land grabbing. Members of the local Acholi tribe fear that a government plan to draw up new boundaries between the districts of Amuru and Adjumani will be the prelude to mass evictions, as happened in 2012 when over 6,000 Acholis were evicted to make way for a game reserve. The protest led the ministers to announce a postponement of the boundary demarcation exercise pending further consultations with inter

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