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Category Archives: Poverty
Can an Ordinary Child Survive Abuse Amidst Escalating Poverty?
Children are a gift from God – fragile, delicate and, above all, a blessing to every African community. Failing to have a child, a family is deemed accursed. Such couples will give their all in search of a child … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Helping Hands, Poverty, Self sustenance projects
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A Welcome Song from the Tubana Bukibokolo Women
Posted in Poverty, Self sustenance projects, Women
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Women’s Bead Project
Tubana Bukibokolo Women’s Group makes paper bead jewelry Buy handcrafted jewelry at the Tubana Bukibokolo Bead Store The women in our villages have come together to develop new skills and opportunities, seeking ways to help themselves overcome the poverty … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Poverty, Self sustenance projects, Women
Tagged art, Bududa, Bukibokolo, culture, handcraft, handmade, jewelry, Lumasaba, Mt. Elgon, necklace, paper beads, paperbeads, poverty, Tubana, Uganda, women
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Please sponsor this child!
In mid-November, a tearful teenager, Dorcus Nambozo, knocked on the door of the Global Outreach Uganda /Hands of Action Uganda offices. With her was her three-month-old son. Aged just 17, Dorcus is in a desperate position. Once a promising student, … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Education, Helping Hands, Poverty
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Agriculture in East Africa
Hands of Action Uganda’s priority is to invest in agriculture The rapidly deteriorating climate, growing population and rising food prices pose a threat to the global food production the world over. In December 2010, the Time Magazine headline read: … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Environment, Food, Hunger, Poverty
Tagged Africa, agriculture, climate, crises change, drought, famine, farming, food, inflation, Uganda
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Helping Hands send a sewing machine, books and training
We are grateful for these gifts from our friends Thank you, friends from around the world, who have helped us in so many ways! Here are more stories about those who have reached out to donate needed … Continue reading
Famine knows no border
Another Painful Famine and Poverty attacks Africa! There is hunger once again. The worst famine in recent memory has gripped regions in Somalia, producing another painful humanitarian crisis in Africa. According to the United Nations, tens of thousands of … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Children, Environment, Food, Hunger, Poverty
Tagged agriculture, Bududa, Congo, disaster, drought, famine, food, inflation, Kenya, poverty, Rwanda, Somalia, United Nations
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Food crisis in East Africa
Where is the answer to food crisis in East Africa? Uganda could be the next country hit by alarming malnutrition rates due to the drought which has sparked famine in southern Somalia and hunger in Kenya, Ethiopia … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Children, Environment, Food, Hunger, Poverty
Tagged agriculture, crisis, Djibouti, drought, East Africa, Ethiopia, famine, food shortage, hunger, inflation, Kenya, maize, manutrition, Somalia, Sudan, sugar, United Nations
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Love the children
The child not trained for life will be a beggar for life Michael is an orphan in our village. When he lost both of his parents, he thought his life had come to an end. He could not … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Poverty
Tagged AIDS, Bududa, Hands of Action, HIV, human rights, hunger, malaria, orphanage, orphans, poverty, Uganda
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Quit talking and begin doing!
To reduce poverty in communities, quit talking and begin doing! From our perspective at Hands of Action Uganda, poverty can briefly be defined as the deprivation of basic human and social needs and rights. The local people in Uganda … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Education, Poverty
Tagged Bududa, children, domestic violence, donation, education, environment, HIV/AIDS, human rights, malaria, poverty, school, social needs, Uganda
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