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Leadership for local challenges
Training, problem-mapping and cooperatives so women lead the answer.
Women Grow Uganda · Est. 2012
We back rural women and the villages that depend on them.
A Ugandan non-government organisation working with rural women and vulnerable people in Sironko, Pakwach and Bulambuli: leadership, savings, climate-smart farms, health and learning, and a fair hearing for young single mothers.
- 100+
- women’s groups mobilised
- toward collective rice marketing
- 2012
- founded in Uganda
- Sironko and Pakwach field bases
- 6
- programmes
- from leadership to emergency relief
What we do
Six commitments, built with the women who keep the villages running.
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Networks that open doors
District forums, exchange visits and a directory that links makers to markets.
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Savings and farms that pay
SACCOs, agro-cooperatives and climate-smart practice rice to coffee.
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Health, learning, environment
Hygiene, literacy, health promoters and school environment clubs.
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Relief when shocks arrive
Rapid assessment and honest distribution food, pads, seed.
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Young single mothers, backed
Safe spaces, tailoring skills, return to school and policy advocacy.
Flagship cause · Agricultural enterprises
Rice that stays valuable all the way to Karamoja.
Rice is our main income activity, alongside village savings, soyabean, simsim and groundnut demonstrations, and now coffee. We are mobilising 100+ women’s groups toward large-scale cultivation, collective marketing and a local processing plant cutting out middlemen and supplying food-scarce Karamoja directly.
- Collective paddy bulking and milling for fair prices
- Farm schools for soyabean, simsim, groundnuts and coffee
- Market days linking groups to credit, inputs and buyers
Urgent · Bulambuli landslides
Homes and gardens are buried. Your gift clears ground for both.
Emergency food, shelter materials, sanitary pads and seed then replanting household gardens once the ground is safe. Every contribution is receipted and reported back.
Give to reliefStories of change
Told by the women living them.
Agribusiness · Eastern Uganda · Rice growers
“Before, the middleman named the price at the garden gate. Now we name it together at the store.”
A cooperative chair in Bulambuli
Single mothers · Sironko · Tailoring cohort
“The machine does not ask me why I left school. It only asks whether I came to practise.”
A young mother back at the machine
Health · Pakwach · Village health
“I do not carry medicine. I carry the part before medicine clean hands, clean water, early action.”
A health promoter on foot
Roots · 2003 → 2012 → today
Born of an exchange, built by villages.
Our founders’ 2003 exchange through FK/NOREC came first; Women Grow Uganda was founded in 2012. Today our partnership with the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) connects village savings groups to a worldwide rural women’s movement.
Our historyYour part
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