Needed: Funds to repair flawed storehouse

Needed: Funds to repair flawed storehouse

Although the Rotary International Global Grant authorized funds to build a grain storehouse in the AWE compound, the contractor did not do the job properly. In addition to other flaws, nails were used to construct the roof, which caused leaks. Before the women farmers...
Savings and Loan Circles

Savings and Loan Circles

The AWE women in six villages of Omoro District have formed about 30 Savings and Loan Circles (S&L), each with 12 to 25 members. These circles provide a safe place to save small amounts of money and offer access to capital for small business ventures. Members meet...
Six AWE Women Trained to Dig Wells

Six AWE Women Trained to Dig Wells

Hundreds of thousands of villages in Uganda have no wells from which the villagers can get clean water for drinking and household use.  Women and children must carry water from distant springs, creeks or wells. It is hard labor that takes hours every day and...
The Lion of Global Grant 2120848

The Lion of Global Grant 2120848

The Lion of Global Grant 2120848 It is not often that a Rotary project reports its workers being terrorized by a lion, but that’s exactly what happened during the pre-project work for Global Grant 2120848. The initiative, titled Helping Women Farmers in Uganda,...