We are getting closer to our goal of raising the money necessary to build the brick wall for our child care center! For those that don’t know, Life in Africa in Kampala is starting a child day care center. There are so many single mothers in the neighborhood, some of whom attend the LiA tailoring [...]
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It’s approximately two months since I posted that Life in Africa Kireka developed a tailoring project that is aiming at training the teenage mothers, the teenage mothers are those young girls who conceived at early ages and can neither continue with school nor get married. The tailoring project is going on successfully with over twenty [...] Dark room construction I am so excited to see this great project taking shape. The members of LiA Kireka are starting a mushroom farm at their center. Mushrooms have become very popular in Uganda and are served now in most of the hotels and restaurants. They have mostly been imported at a high price but [...] As part of our efforts to transform the community through life skill trainings, Life in Africa Kireka thought that we should not leave behind the teenage mothers of Acholi quarter. There are more than 3,000 displaced families in Acholi quarter, and the numbers of teenage mothers contribute to this. The life at this IDP (internally [...] These are some of the photos taken early this year when New York University students’ dance group visited Uganda and performed with Lia kids at National Theater. It was very interesting to see our kids performing just like NY students despite the fact that training was only for four days. On my last visit to Uganda, I spent almost six weeks working with the women of Kireka to help them set up a program of group production so they could make their beads and jewelry faster. It was an amazing experience and I think that I learned as much as they did. They are an [...] |
 
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