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African women are often suppressed in their own culture. They are given few opportunities outside of the extremely hard work at their homes.
Uganda
Ida Bazonoona has received opportunities and has taken great advantage of them. She is now paying those opportunities forward.
When Kibo Group met Ida and her family, she struggled to care for her children as she desired. She walked for miles every day to her “office” – a small plot of land she used as a garden in order to provide food for her family and medicine for her son’s infected leg. Her young boy was soon facing amputation. Kibo Group and friends first provided medical assistance for Ida’s son saving his leg and then Kibo Group provided Ida a job at The Source. Ida developed several skills and talents and has now become a dynamic role model for many women in Uganda.
Ida travels several times a week to remote Busoga villages and trains women in parenting, preventative medicine for their families and other valuable development lessons for rural African women. She then provides them a job! Ida trains village women how to make beaded jewelry out of magazine paper. She then sells the jewelry in Ugandan craft shops and she also exports them to us at Kibo Group. If you would like to support women through the Basoga Bead Program you can buy necklaces for $15 each. They make a great gift AND your purchase helps rural African women have hope for a better life.
Mozambique
A couple of years ago, we sat down with some women from our community and asked them what some of their biggest concerns for themselves and their children were. They began listing many common physical ailments such as diarrhea, malaria, seizures, colds, and burns. So we consulted some knowledgeable folks, put some information together, and gave the women a place to learn together. We discuss local, natural solutions to health problems. We talk about hygiene, nutrition, and ways to improve our health. These small groups have been a great place to meet women, invest in their families, and share our lives.
