Sponsorship Needs
$500 capital for Jacinta's charcoal business
$6,000 for a permanent house

Project Have Hope member Acen Jacinta works grueling hours to support 9 people, including herself, her husband, their 5 children, and 2 orphaned nephews. Jacinta needs assistance to start a simple business that would make schooling a possibility for the 6 children who cannot currently attend school.

Estarina recently completed Project Have Hope’s Adult Literacy Program. With her newfound literacy skills, she can earn a higher income to better provide for her family. She would like to start a charcoal business.

Auma Juliana is a widow. She cares for eight children--2 of her own, plus 6 orphaned grandchildren. Their mother, Juliana’s daughter, died working in the brutal conditions of the stone quarry. At age 60, Juliana is elderly by Ugandan standards.

One day in the stone quarry, Judith's eye was hit by a stone. Now she’s nearly blind and needs an operation. Once her vision is restored, she hopes to open a food shop selling local food products. This will allow her to earn a greater income to better support her family.

Agnes cares for her twelve children and grandchildren. Project Have Hope sponsors 2 of them in school. Agnes pays for the others, but regularly struggles to afford the tuition.

Dorcus is currently enrolled in PHH's vocational program to become a hairdresser. Upon completion of the program, Dorcus would like to open a hair salon. She would like to resettle in the North, because her extended family still lives there. It is her dream to build a new home for her children where they could be close to their relatives.

Aciro Jesca has been raising her two children and her niece on her own since her husband deserted the family. To earn money, she rolls paper beads and cooks cassava and beans to sell at a marke. With this income, she can pay the children's tuition, but Jesca struggles to pay rent and provide adequate, nutritious food for the family.

Dorine wants all of her children to receive an education, in order to break the cycle of poverty. She would like to return home to the North to be close to her mother again. She has land there but cannot afford to build a house. Dorine would like to start a business selling produce. With a better income, she'd be able to make sure her children receive an education, eat adequately every day, and someday return to their homeland.

Adoch Evalyn is originally from war-torn Northern Uganda. Evalyn sought refuge in an internally displaced persons camp, but the rebels invaded the camps. Eventually Evalyn settled in the Acholi quarter. She and her husband work hard to support their two children, but Evalyn worries that she may not be able to afford the school fees.

Paska’s husband found work in the North, so Paska cares for 10 children on her own. Six children are her and her husband's. One is her step-daughter, and 3 are orphans who had nobody else to look after them.

Judith supports her two children by rolling paper beads, growing mushrooms, and preparing food to sell at a local market. She pays tuition for her son and PHH sponsors her daughter in school. Unfortunately, Judith is HIV positive and needs to seek proper medical treatment to prevent the onset of AIDS.

When Judith moved to Masindi, she acquired a small plot of land. She still owns it and would like to build a house there for her family to be close to her father who remained in Masindi. To earn a greater income, Judith wants to reestablish her charcoal business.

Rose is married but her husband's job in a fish factory doesn't provide much. Rose must provide the main source of income for their large family of 6 biological children and 2 other young, displaced relatives. One child's tuition is paid by PHH and Rose pays for one more, but all the other kids are currently not in school. Rose rolls paper beads for PHH and has also graduated from vocational training in tailoring, started a small sewing business, and started a small garden to ease the burden of finding food for the family.

Josephine is divorced and her ex-husband does not support the family, so Josephine cares for her own child, and two orphaned children, on her own. She rolls paper beads and has completed the vocational training program in tailoring. She sews and sells clothes, and would like to expand her business, so she can earn more money to send all three of her children to school. She needs some capital so she can buy more materials and supplies.

Hellen supports her 4 surviving children, plus her 4 grandchildren whose parents passed away. Hellen raises and sells poultry and rolls paper beads for Project Have Hope. She has completed the Adult Literacy Program. She also grows mushrooms and has a balcony garden. But she still struggles to pay rent, feed the children more than once a day, and provide other essentials.

Irene rolls paper beads for PHH and works in the grueling conditions of the stone quarry. She hopes to open a shop to sell local food products. Irene dreams of resettling in the North, where her two surviving brothers are. If she could save up some money, she could build a small house on the land her family owns there.

Anek Sylvia is a widow with 8 children of her own, plus her niece and nephew, whom she is also raising. With 10 kids between 4 and 17, Sylvia struggles to feed the children and send them to school, even though she works hard every day.

Two of Hellen’s brothers were abducted and killed by rebels. Hellen’s family fled south, and settled in the Acholi Quarter. Hellen and her husband are responsible for 10 children--6 of their own, 2 nieces, and 1 grandchild. They cannot afford to send all the children to school. To earn a better living, Hellen would like to open a second hand clothing shop.

Betty struggles to afford tuition for most of the children in her care, but she still has a lot of hope for the future. After completing beauty school in March 2011, she would like to open a hair salon. She still owns land in the North and would like to build a home with an adjacent salon.

Rose cares for five children on her own. Three are hers, and the others are orphans. Two of them are in school, but Rose cannot afford to send the rest. To earn money, Rose rolls paper beads and sells food like beans and produce. She would like to expand her small scale business and open a food store. This would allow her to earn a higher income to better support her family.

Ayo Margaret is from Northern Uganda. She was abducted by insurgents and narrowly escaped death. Today, she is a widow caring for two children. She prepares food to sell at the local market and rolls paper beads, but sometimes she cannot afford adequate clothing or rent. She has received vocational training in catering and would like to expand her small scale cooking business.

Sabina and her husband both work. They also care for nine children. Five of their own, plus 2 grand-babies and 2 young, orphaned cousins. Because they have so many children to feed and clothe, there is no money left for school fees. Only one of the children is receiving a consistent education.

Incredibly, Labuk Doreen, a widow, cares for 16 children who all live under one rented roof. Doreen would like to start a business selling second hand clothes and shoes so that all the children in her very large family can attend school and eat adequately every day.

Josephine and her husband care for six children--3 of their own, plus 3 who are their own much younger siblings. They cannot afford to send all of them to school, although they would very much like all the children to receive an education. Josephine sews and sells clothes. In the future, she would like to open a shop to sell tailoring materials like zippers, linings, and buttons.

Susan is fortunate to have a husband who works. Together, they care for six children. Two are theirs together, 3 are from a previous marriage, and one is an orphan whom they adopted. Susan is a skilled tailor, but as the three youngest children approach school age, Susan worries that they may not be able to afford their tuition.

Alice and her husband have three young children, and Alice worries that they won't be able to afford the increasing fees as the children get older. Alice works in a salon, and believes she could increase her income if she had her own beauty shop, since she has a natural talent for braiding hair.

Layet Christine lost everything when her home was burned by insurgents a decade ago. She fled to Kampala, and now she is married and caring for 7 children, only 3 of whom are hers. The other 4 are orphans whom she and her husband adopted. The cost of living for the family is very high, and they cannot afford a suitable home.

Margaret is a single parent. The father of her children does not support the family at all, and so Margaret alone cares for their 4 children, plus 4 more children who have nobody but Mrgaret to take care of them. PHH sponsors 1 child and Margaret pays the school fees for the rest of the children. She is an extremely hard worker who believes she could achieve even more with a little help.

Harriet is the sole caregiver for 7 children, of whom 3 are hers and 4 are orphans. Project Have Hope sponsors one in school, but Harriet cannot afford to pay the school fees for the others. Harriet rolls paper beads for PHH, and is in the tailoring training program. Upon completion, she intends to make clothing to sell both in the Acholi Quarter and back in the North.

Sarah's husband does grueling work in the stone quarry, while Sarah cares for their 4 children, plus their orphaned nice and nephew. Sarah has hope for the future, and would like to receive vocational training in tailoring, so that she can sew and sell clothes in the village, and send all the children to school.