This project will provide booster grant support to 500 vulnerable families in 2 districts of Jinja and Mpigi district in Eastern and central Uganda respectively, these families lost their businesses to Covid19 lock down, the covid pandemic affected most of the small businesses run by local needy families rendering them un employed, most of these families are headed by women and the elderly people, this project is also empowering them in business skills trainings quarterly

Challenge

When lock down was effected during Covid 19 pandemic, all businesses were closed when government reopened the country, most of these poor families could not start again, they cannot feed their children, neither can they take them to school. (The Image used in this project is of Jolly,a woman we supported with a booster grant recently in Mpigi District )

Long-Term Impact

The project has organized these families into village groups and is training them in business skills so that they can better manage their businesses, the project has also empowered the groups to start saving and loaning themselves with low interest rates

References

1. http://www.mountainsofhope.org
2. https://www.facebook.com/MOHchildrensministries/
3. https://youtu.be/PHpDuVMi1B0
4. https://twitter.com/OfMountains
5. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mountains-of-hope-childrens-ministries-b438a0106/

Additional Documentation

https://www.globalgiving.org//pfil/47279/projdoc.docx

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