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ORGANIZATION: Outreach Uganda

Uganda Women Fair Trade Crafts
Lilly markets fair trade crafts to help feed her family, buy needed medicines, send her children to school and save money for a home down payment!

Use your creative jewelry making skills to help us reformat our paper beaded jewelry options to have a more current updated look. We need someone who can work on this project 4 to 10 hours per week for at least an initial 6 week period. Then, a lesser number of hours through the implementation of the new styles through the end of August 2018. Ongoing volunteer consulting after that date would be a plus.

Help is mainly needed on simpler necklace and bracelet styles that most of our Ugandan women could do in Uganda once they have been trained.

Helpful skills:
Jewelry Making
Fashion and Design
Marketing
Working with Natural Materials Such as Grasses

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About Outreach Uganda

Location:

9457 S University Blvd, #410, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126, US

Mission Statement

To empower poor people in Uganda, especially women and children, to overcome poverty through: income-generation, education and training, as well as other community empowerment endeavors including a community school with 500+ students in K to 6th grade, a clinic serving over 5000 people in 5 villages, and a home building program for women.

Description

Our empowerment activities include:

Income-generation activities include:
1. provision of internal revolving loan funds
2.marketing of the Ugandan women's craft products in the U.S. and Canada
3. business development assistance
4. cash crop agriculture activities

Education and training activities include:
1. scholarship and sponsorship programs for over 200 children
2. girls' education initiative program to keep young girls in school
3. training programs for women as well as teachers

Community empowerment programs include:
1. partnering with a northern Uganda community on its primary school which has over 500 students and 18 teachers and 9 support staff
2. partnering with a northern Uganda community on a clinic serving over 5000 people
3. assisting our Jinja women's group with a home building program to provide women a decent place to live where they can move out of the slums and stabilize their lives

Prior to working with OU, our women participants were normally living on less than $2 per day, and were supporting 8 to 10 children and orphans in their households. Many are widows whose husbands died in the war, or from AIDS.

We do not give handouts but work on building capacity and encouraging those we work with to help themselves.

CAUSE AREAS

Education & Literacy
International
Women
Education & Literacy, International, Women

WHEN

Mon Oct 01, 2018 - Thu Jan 31, 2019

WHERE

9671 Beacon Hill CtHighlands Ranch, CO 80126

(39.54016,-104.977516)
 

SKILLS

GOOD FOR

N/A

REQUIREMENTS

  • 4 - 10 hours per week for first 6 weeks, then less

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