This week, we are inviting you to join us in celebrating the power of small acts of generosity for GlobalGiving’s Little by Little campaign.

From today, Monday, 8th April 2024, until Friday, 12th April 2024, GlobalGiving will match ALL online donations up to $50 (about Shs. 195,000) at 50 percent:

• Your $10 (Shs. 39,000) donation turns into $15 (Shs. 58,500).
• Your $30 (Shs. 117,900) donation turns into $45 (Shs. 175,500).
• Your $50 (Shs. 195,000) donation turns into $75 (Shs. 292,500)

Your gift will support disadvantaged but enterprising:

Young Women in Uganda, who against all odds are struggling to put food on the table for their families. They are hawkers, vendors, traders, artisanal entrepreneurs, smallholder farmers, who need access to inexpensive finance and financial literacy to enhance profitability of their enterprises and improve livelihoods. Make a donation today.

Ugandan youth to acquire hands-on skills of welders; a business which multiplies investments ten-fold, within a day. In Uganda, youth aged 15-30 years are the providers, but who are largely unemployed. Please gift them welding apprenticeships. Make a donation today.

When we all work together, there’s no limit to what we can do—but don’t take our word for it.

“My name is Margie. I first borrowed UShs.10,000 (US$ 2.60) to top up on my business of tomatoes selling. I paid it back at the end of the month and I kept on borrowing and paying back just like that.

I am happy that my business can make me buy food for the family. At the end of the day, I buy sugar and salt and I am no longer like other women here in the village.

I started with only tomatoes and now I grind and sell groundnut paste, mukene (dried silver fish), avocado, which I buy from Kalaki and then sell.”

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“Nsubuga, a metal fabricator and welder. The 39 years-old is a graduate of mechanical engineering from Makerere University. However, after a short stint in a white-collar job, he discovered that his fortune lay in ‘getting his hands dirty’

“I thought about it, and came to the conclusion that an illiterate welder or mechanic earns about Shs. 30,000 daily which, at the end of the month, was far higher than what I was earning.”

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With your generosity, we can:

• Build a community loan fund through which disadvantaged young women may access booster capital accompanied with financial literacy – one-on-one and hands-on training and mentoring.

• Enable a young innovator, an unemployed university graduate, who has apprenticed with an established welder and is endowed with practical skills as a welder to establish a welding workshop in Lira City in Northern Uganda; through which he will access welding apprenticeships to youth.

Thank you for helping us to mentor and skill young people into development change agents who are innovative, industrious and are actively engaged in self-reliant efforts against household poverty!