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Project Have Hope improves the agricultural condition in Uganda with the help of local women. We focus on three aspects of agriculture and implementing new elements into local community: the balcony gardens, the greenhouse, and the mushroom house. We do not only create new opportunities in agriculture, but also bring employment opportunities to local families and improve environment.
Project Have Hope cooperated with Uganda Rural Development to organize local women to work on balcony gardens. This project interconnects the locals and anyone who wants to contribute, since any donation of 25 dollars could build a new garden. The main greens we plant include spinach, onions, sukumawiki (a green similar to cabbage), and occasionally, carrots, nakati (a cross between a tomato and an eggplant), dodo (also known as amaranth), and okra. Each female worker is trained before coming to the farm and earns an income of approximately US$17 per week afterwards. In addition, fresh vegetables are provided and kids can help occasionally. It is a very beneficial program for locals as it increases employment and regular green food is guaranteed.
We also work on greenhouse farming as we encourage local women to make full use of this new agriculture technique. We work with Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme. The greenhouses are significant in Uganda rural areas, as land and space are better used in an enclosed greenhouse. Thus, locals would be able to grow a large crop of tomatoes in a more efficient way. The popularity of this program is increasing, since we are attracting more professionals to help the locals.
Mushroom houses were introduced in the year of 2008. PHH do not only provide profession training for local women, but also financial support to buy the seeds and help with the constructions. Mushroom houses also show PHH and local women’s persistence and determination to overcome obstacles: in 2012, mushroom houses sustained damage because of extreme weather; however, PHH offered some financial assistance to fix the constructions, and gathered contribution that were from other donors.
Project Have Hope’s beneficial work and projects with local Ugandan women to improve their financial situations and food supply prove our determination to bring a brighter future for Uganda. We will continue our work and look forward to any kind of support and contributions from the rest of world.
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"I think big!" gushes Eric. "I want to be the best designer ever!"
His goals aren’t limited to fashioning clothes, but to every aspect of design. With unbridled ambition, a strong work ethic and passion, this 22 year old is unstoppable.
Thanks to Project Have Hope's scholastic sponsorship program, Eric had the opportunity to pursue a course in fashion and design, and is currently employed by a company that manufactures clothes for government contracts.
Eric’s passion for design was ignited when he was 17 years old. His uniform was too big and ill-fitting. He was determined to fix it. “ ‘Let me try,’ ” he recalls saying to himself as he sat behind a sewing machine for the first time to adjust his uniform. “From that day, I loved tailoring.
Pursuing a course in tailoring would have been an impossibility without the financial support of Project Have Hope. Susan has gained both a skill and a confidence that helps her to navigate the future and the challenges that persist.
Much of Susan’s youth was spent rising before the sun and going to bed long after the moon had risen. Her day would start at 4am, when she would rise to head to the fields to work. She’d return home as the sun was setting and begin the time-consuming task of preparing a meal. Day after day.
At 19, a young mother herself, Susan moved to the Acholi Quarter. There, she labored in the stone quarry, often with her infant baby on her back.
When Project Have Hope began, it was a welcome relief to Susan. She could work from home with her daughter seated nearby and roll paper into beads. “It was simple work, easy work,” Susan carefreely recalls. Not only was the work easy, but she’d earn twice what she earned in the quarry. “It was a very great change for me.”
Susan later enrolled in a tailoring course through Project Have Hope’s support. From the beginning, she was thrilled with the opportunity tailoring presented. “You can expect money any day, any time,” Susan beams. “If I return to the village, I can bring my tailoring machine and work from there and earn a living. I can work anywhere.”
