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As women across the world make significant contributions to community development, the seamstresses of Mend are playing their part in northern Uganda. Each woman is a mother, and each has become a role model not only to her children but also within a region overcoming social and economic vulnerability. Our friends at the Half the […]

It’s not just sewing skills the ladies are learning at Mend. Evelyn, the staff social worker has organized regular Functional Adult Literacy classes to introduce practical reading and writing abilities. On this particular day, the women were learning how to fill out bank forms, writing the cash amount as both numbers and words. Being comfortable […]