Kings Gate, Kabalagala, Kampala
What the foundation delivers
The work is organised as ten programme areas. Together they cover rights, income, skills, protection, health and the community structures that make those gains last.
Each area is delivered with community members, not delivered to them as a finished package. Training is paired with advocacy. Skills are paired with savings and enterprise. Protection work names the risks women are actually facing, including trafficking and technology-facilitated abuse, and points to support that exists.
Partners can enter at a single area or across several. The foundation’s preference is for collaborations that strengthen women-led groups and leave a local mechanism in place.
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The foundation promotes women’s rights and supports women to take part in social, economic and civic affairs. This includes practical awareness of legal and civic rights, and work with community actors so that women can organise, speak and be heard on the issues that affect them.
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Programmes strengthen economic resilience through entrepreneurship, financial literacy and a clearer path to opportunity. Participants build basic business knowledge and household financial planning skills that can be used immediately, not only in a training room.
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In Kampala and Wakiso, the foundation has trained refugee women, adolescent girls and young women, and stay-at-home mothers in vocational skills alongside enterprise development. The approach links skills acquisition to savings, small enterprise and community-based economic opportunities.
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Protection work helps women and girls understand trends and risks in trafficking in persons, the measures that reduce vulnerability, and the pathways to support. Under the Bridge and Thrive Project, this training reached adolescent girls, young women and female sex workers in targeted communities.
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The foundation works to prevent and respond to gender-based violence and technology-facilitated abuse. Community advocacy helps women recognise risk, know where protection can be sought, and understand the avenues for support available to them.
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Access to health information is treated as part of a wider rights agenda. Programme work has included community advocacy on women’s right to health, alongside safe livelihoods and economic rights, so that health is not separated from safety and income.
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Many of the women the foundation walks with earn a living informally, including through roadside business. Programmes aim for livelihoods that are safer and more sustainable, combining immediate practical support with skills, networks and a stronger claim on economic rights.
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Women’s savings groups are a practical route to financial resilience. In Kisenyi, the foundation collaborates with the Blessed Group of women to strengthen savings practice and improve access to small-scale credit for household and livelihood needs.
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Lasting change depends on organised women, not only on outside projects. The foundation builds the capacity of women-led groups and grassroots actors to mobilise, advocate and respond to the problems their own communities name.
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The foundation documents what communities are living, and uses that experience in awareness campaigns, community advocacy and conversations with stakeholders. The aim is accountable programming and a public voice that stays close to the women concerned.
Communities
Women and girls in urban and semi-urban communities, with particular attention to refugee and migrant women, adolescent girls and young women, female sex workers, sexual minorities, single mothers, stay-at-home mothers, and women in informal, roadside and low-income work.
Districts
Kampala, Wakiso, Mukono, Arua, Kabale, Jinja, Mbale, together with surrounding urban and semi-urban communities. Kampala and Wakiso have been central to vocational training. Savings work with the Blessed Group is based in Kisenyi.
