ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SACCO

Women Call centre Uganda Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (SACCOs) play a crucial and multifaceted role in empowering women, especially in developing countries where they often face significant barriers to accessing formal financial services 1. Financial Inclusion and Access to Capital This is the most direct and impactful role of SACCOs. They address the primary challenges women face with traditional banks: Bridging the collateral gap: Women often lack collateral, such as land or property, which is a common requirement for bank loans. SACCOs provide a solution by offering group-based loans or lending based on a member's savings history and social capital within the co-operative, rather than traditional collateral. Encouraging a savings culture: SACCOs provide a safe and accessible place for women to save their money, no matter how small the amount. Regular saving is often a requirement for accessing loans, which instills a discipline of financial management. Providing affordable credit: SACCOs offer loans at lower interest rates and with more flexible repayment terms compared to predatory informal lenders. This allows women to start or expand small businesses, invest in agriculture, or meet urgent household needs like school fees or medical expenses without falling into debt traps. 2. Economic Empowerment Beyond providing financial services, SACCOs are a powerful tool for economic empowerment. Supporting entrepreneurship: By providing access to working capital, SACCOs enable women to transition from subsistence activities to dynamic, income-generating businesses. This can lead to increased household income, asset ownership, and greater financial self-reliance. Increasing productivity: In the agricultural sector, SACCOs can provide funds for inputs like seeds, fertilizers, and tools, helping women farmers improve their yields and productivity. Facilitating collective action: SACCOs, especially those formed by women, can serve as a platform for members to collectively purchase inputs, market their products, and negotiate better terms of trade. 3. Social and Non-Financial Empowerment The benefits of SACCOs extend beyond the purely economic, contributing to a woman's overall social standing and well-being. Building financial literacy and skills: Many SACCOs provide financial education, business management training, and advisory services to their members. This enhances women's ability to make informed financial decisions, manage their money, and run successful enterprises. Enhancing decision-making power: Studies have shown that participation in SACCOs increases a woman's role in household decision-making, particularly concerning finances. By contributing to the household economy, women gain a stronger "voice" and more influence. Fostering social networks and confidence: Being part of a SACCO creates a supportive network where women can share experiences, build trust, and gain confidence. This can encourage them to take on leadership roles, not just within the co-operative but also in their communities. Promoting gender equality: Some SACCOs are specifically designed for women, which helps them overcome cultural and social barriers. Other SACCOs, while open to both genders, may have policies that encourage women's participation in leadership positions, promoting gender balance and a more equitable society.

RECYCLING OLD CAR WASTES INTO FOOT WEAR FOR RURAL PEOPLE

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Women call centre Uganda in Kasese Uganda Recycling old car waste, particularly tires, into footwear for rural communities is a well-established and impactful practice. It addresses multiple challenges at once: environmental pollution from waste tires, economic hardship in rural areas, and the need for durable, affordable footwear. The proposal project has been funded by Marie schlei Germany and impacted by training over 50 women in Kasese western Uganda. Now women trade in different shoes ranging from poor to the rich. Shoes are made according to needs and income status of our society say 2500- 20000 UGX. How It Works The process is generally a low-tech, manual one that can be easily adapted to a small-scale social enterprise or individual craftsperson. 1. Sourcing Materials: Old, discarded car and truck tires are collected from local sources, such as mechanic workshops, dumpsites, or by-the-road. In some cases, organizations partner with tire dealers for a consistent supply. 2. Preparation: The tires are cleaned, and the useful rubber parts are separated from the steel belts and other non-rubber components using simple tools like sharp knives. The thick, durable tread section of the tire is often used for the sole, while other parts can be used for straps or other parts of the shoe. 3. Shoe Creation: o Soles: The tire tread is cut into the shape of a shoe sole. o Straps/Uppers: Various materials are used for the rest of the shoe. These can include strips of recycled tire, discarded leather, fabric scraps, or other durable and locally available materials. o Assembly: The sole and upper are then attached, often by stitching them together with heavy-duty needles and thread or with strong adhesives. 4. Distribution: The finished footwear is sold at an affordable price to local communities, providing a low-cost, long-lasting alternative to factory-made shoes. Benefits of the Approach • Environmental: Tires are a significant source of pollution. They are not biodegradable and can become breeding grounds for disease-carrying vectors like mosquitoes. Recycling them into shoes directly reduces the amount of waste in landfills and open dumps. • Economic: This model creates local employment and income-generating opportunities. Small-scale entrepreneurs and artisans can learn the craft and start their own businesses. This is a particularly powerful tool for poverty reduction in communities with high unemployment rates. We now have over 50 women and girls. • Social: The footwear produced is extremely durable and affordable, making it accessible to people who might not be able to afford new shoes. This can be especially important for children, protecting their feet from cuts, parasites, and other injuries. • Circular Economy: This practice is a perfect example of a circular economy, where waste is not simply discarded but is repurposed into a new, useful product, creating a sustainable loop.

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Community Tourism In Kasese Uganda. Women Call centre Uganda launches c...COMMUNITY

WOMEN CALL CENTRE UGANDA: It offers community tourism that will aid in creation of jobs and fight poverty in Kasese Uganda.It will create 120 jobs to women and girls in Next 12 Months In Kasese Uganda.

Recycling old car tires into foot wear for rural poor

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Recycling of old car wastes into foot wear and other products for rural...

impact of community based Tourism

It community tourism provides jobs and offers market to products produced in local communities. Community based tourism and tourism is key player for Uganda. The model ofcommunity based tourism revolves around individuals, households, communities, their cultures and the environment. COBATI's award winning founder Maria Baryamujura, has been concerned about the complete lack of participation of local people in their natural and cultural resources, and the alarming levels of poverty in rural households in Kyarumba,Kasese Uganda. IMPACTS OF COMMUNITY TOURISM IN KYARUMBA KASESE UGANDA 14 PEOPLE PLUS LIVELIHOODS OF WOMEN IMPROVED IN COMMUNITY TOURISM PROJECTS 500 COMMUNITY TRAINING CENTRES ESTABLISHED TO TRAIN YOUTH AND EMPOWER RURAL WOMEN 24 PLUS PARTNERSHIPS FORMED TO COMBAT RURAL POVERTY THROUGH EMPOWERMENT 5 PLUS AWARDS RECEIVED IN RECOGNITION OF CONSERVATION AND ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES OVER 400 JOBS HAVE BEEN CREATED AND MARKET FOR RURAL PEODUCTS

Community-Based Tourism in Rural Areas Thematic objective:

A.1 Business and SMEs development Priority: A.1.3 Sustainable tourism Brief description of the project: This proposal presents an overview on the criteria of a sustainable CBT product in Kasese western Uganda. To play a major role in sustainable development, a CBT product must focus on competitive management, resource conservation, and benefit creation to the community. The three elements need to be supported, in turn, by women and youth involvement and commitment. As the proposed conceptual framework of sustainable CBT product can be a basis for further research in CBT, it offers theoretical and practical inputs. CBT is an extension of Sustainable Tourism (ST) that takes place in rural and natural settings. As in other CBTs projects, ST requires the involvement and participation of community in managing the tourism activities. Community’s involvement contributes to create economic dynamism, to improve their well-being and indirectly to promote their culture to the world. CBT aims to extend the benefits from tourism activities to the community in the targeted areas in return for their participation in the process of development as well as during the sales and delivery of the products and services Women call centre Uganda submitting a project proposal for Community Based Tourism (CBT) in rural areas: In Kyarumba Kasese western Uganda to enhance development of entrepreneurial and business acumen for women and youth, through building effective partnerships with local community, CSOs, NGOs, private sector and key stakeholders in the area” Main objectives – issues to be addressed: Main Goal: Develop business entrepreneurial and business acumen in community based tourism sector, with the active participation of women and youth, so that they will be highly involved to lead in this sector. specific objectives: 1. Develop an integrated socio-economic plan to build capacity and empower of community-based tourism actors. 2. Guide the Community based tourism actors to lead and manage Tourism Destination Management Center (TDMC) sustainably based on market value chain approach systems. 3. Develop organizational and managerial skills of business projects for TDMC. 4. Develop opportunities for marketing and promotion of products services provided by the TDMC supported by using technology, new media and interactive markets. Expected results: 1) Integrated sustainable socio-economic plan involving all actors and audience. 2) Action plan to link producers and service providers with market factors and actors. 3) Marketing group capable of promotion, packaging and other marketing skills. 4) Sustained and managed brand of rural areas. 5) Local products developed of high quality. 6) Active distribution channels. 7) Technology used for marketing products. 8) Selling channels open in main cities, regionally and internationally. 9) Participate in exhibitions, festivals and other events. 10) Success stories documented. 11) Future plans to support and expand the TDMC. Impact: 1) Integrated sustainable socio-economic management involving all the actors and the audience. 2) Women and youth in rural area community involved in sustainable tourism sector. 3) Strong, sustain and active market value chain support tourism destination management

comcomunity tourism is key player for Ugandan economy

It community tourism provides jobs and offers market to products produced in local communities. Community based tourism and tourism is key player for Uganda. The model ofcommunity based tourism revolves around individuals, households, communities, their cultures and the environment. COBATI's award winning founder Maria Baryamujura, has been concerned about the complete lack of participation of local people in their natural and cultural resources, and the alarming levels of poverty in rural households in Kyarumba,Kasese Uganda. IMPACTS OF COMMUNITY TOURISM IN KYARUMBA KASESE UGANDA 14 PEOPLE PLUS LIVELIHOODS OF WOMEN IMPROVED IN COMMUNITY TOURISM PROJECTS 500 COMMUNITY TRAINING CENTRES ESTABLISHED TO TRAIN YOUTH AND EMPOWER RURAL WOMEN 24 PLUS PARTNERSHIPS FORMED TO COMBAT RURAL POVERTY THROUGH EMPOWERMENT 5 PLUS AWARDS RECEIVED IN RECOGNITION OF CONSERVATION AND ADVOCACY ACTIVITIES OVER 400 JOBS HAVE BEEN CREATED AND MARKET FOR RURAL PEODUCTS

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WOMEN CALL CENTRE UGANDA HAS DESIGNED 4 ACRES TO TRAIN AND DEMONSTRATE VEGAN PERMACULTURE

Bamboo tourist Vallage

Community-based tourism is travel to local Indigenous communities that have invited people from elsewhere to experience their customs, food, lifestyle, and set of beliefs. These communities manage both the tourism experience and the benefits of tourism, thereby strengthening their self-governance, economic alternatives, and traditional ways of life in the process.

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Community-based tourism is travel to local Indigenous communities that have invited people from elsewhere to experience their customs, food, lifestyle, and set of beliefs. These communities manage both the tourism experience and the benefits of tourism, thereby strengthening their self-governance, economic alternatives, and traditional ways of life in the process.

community tourism (BAMBOO TOURIST VILLAGE)

COMMUNITY BASED TOURISM IN NYAKEYA Engage in community-based tourism and support Indigenous communities while experiencing their culture and way of being.

PROCESSING FEES AND CASSAVE

The maize processing machines were funded by Marrie-schlei Association Germany.

COMMUNITY LITERACY AND ADVOCANCY FOR WOMEN

Our work reaches women and people who have been marginalised; people who often missed out on school due to extreme poverty, conflict or discrimination. Our practical education projects give people the skills and resources they need to make change happen, giving them a new start and turning their hope for a better future into a reality. Community literacy skills are in Health,environment,vocational,agricuture and value chain management based in rural and urban slums.

ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE IN KASESE UGANDA

Child marriage is a global issue. It is fuelled by gender inequality, poverty, social norms and insecurity, and has devastating consequences all over the world. Here, you can discover more about the extent and impacts of child marriage and the progress we’ve made towards ending it. Therefore,child marriage undermines women progressive in Uganda. Let us fight this problem and tell community NO FOR CHILD MARRIAGE.

CLIMATE CHANGE IN KASESE UGANDA

WE need to observe the role of women in climate change mitigations in kasese uganda

FOOD CRISIS

WOMEN IN kASESE HAVE NO ACCESS TO FOOD AS COVID-19 AND DISASTERS GOES ON.

Sex Workers Face New Challenges as Virus Spreads in Uganda

WE REQUEST FOR FUNDING FOR OUR FRIENDS AND SISTERS IN UGANDA NO MONEY FOR SEXUAL WORKERS,NO FOOD AND NO BUSINESS. Throughout Uganda, sex work, though illegal, is common. Uganda remains among the world’s 20 countries with the highest prevalence of HIV, in part because sex workers’ clients often refuse to use condoms, advocates say. Now, a new health crisis has emerged. And the nation’s sex workers say they can’t afford to stay at home. Uganda has restricted public gatherings until at least May 5, closed bars and urged ill citizens to wear masks and practice social distancing. For local sex workers, those restrictions aren’t feasible. As of April 25, Uganda had confirmed 75 cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, zero deaths and 46 recovered, according to the Ministry of Health. Harriet Hope Waseni has been a sex worker for 18 years. She says she has never seen business so slow. She’d be willing to work, she says, if she could find clients. She used to rent a room in the same building that housed a bar. Her clients, mainly fishermen, were an easy catch. Now the bar is closed, and clients are hard to find. She’s tried a few different locations, but the results are the same. Her previous income of about 50,000 Ugandan shillings (UGX) ($13) per day quickly became zero. Sex worker advocacy groups have advised people to halt their work while coronavirus restrictions are in place. Debra Nakatudde, a sex worker and executive director of Serving Lives Under Marginalization, a local organization that provides resources and health care for sex workers, says many can’t afford to stop working. “Some can’t stay at home because sex work is their only source of income for survival,” Nakatudde says. She says many local sex workers are stocking up on hand sanitizer and wearing masks. But that’s not likely to prevent infection for this high-risk population. The best way to stay safe is to stay home, she says. Sex workers are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19, says Hajjara Sanyu Batte, a sex worker and executive director of the Lady Mermaid Bureau, an association of female sex workers. The Lady Mermaid Bureau, now temporarily closed, has over 800 members, all of whom the organization is unable to serve right now. “Activities like mental health support, a weekly fitness class and HIV counseling were all canceled, which means as an association we can’t be as effective as we were before the coronavirus outbreak,” Batte says. And with the organization closed, members have also lost access to antiretroviral and pre-exposure medications, which were previously available there. With limited services and no other options, Waseni and others say they can’t just sit around and comply with social distancing orders. “I have a family to feed,” Waseni says. “Risking [it] is better than staying at home on an empty stomach.”

COVID-19 Reliaf for women and girls in areas of need,Sexul workers,LGBTS And Drug usuers Kasese Uganda

As the country continues to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 health and economic crises, the complexity of experiences and attitudes among LGBTQ and other groups,Ugandans remains underexamined. How are LGBTQ and other sexual individuals handling the coronavirus pandemic? What barriers are these groups facing in accessing and receiving effective health care? More broadly speaking, are LGBTQ individuals facing ongoing discrimination due to their sexual orientation or gender identity? And what effects might these experiences have upon their personal and financial well-being? To better understand these and other questions, the Center for Ugandan Progress, in conjunction with the independent and nonpartisan research group at the African ark college of management sciences, designed one of the most comprehensive surveys to date exploring the lives, attitudes, and experiences of LGBTQ and other sexual minorities remain under descrimations.