Sustainably Empowering Women (SEW) is an indigenous NGO operating in Lira, Northern Uganda, with a mission to empower vulnerable single mothers towards financial independence. Through a comprehensive approach encompassing business management training, skills development, and access to business capital. Their mission is to provide single mothers on their program with the tools they need to succeed.

The organisation goes beyond financial assistance by relieving the women of their children's school fees and equipping them with a school starter package. Doing so, creates an opportunity for these women to focus on building their businesses and fostering savings.

SEW believe in the power of a strong support network, and their beneficiaries become part of an incredible community of empowered women. In addition to business-related assistance, various valuable resources are provided. These include personalised bra fittings, sustainable sanitary provisions, self-defence training, computer skills, and much more. By addressing both practical and personal needs, SEW aims to holistically support the women on their journey to independence.

We have actively been working with 21 single mother led families and have now successfully empowered them, through the SEW programme, to improve their living conditions, self confidence and ability to provide for their family!

We would firstly be grateful for your support to initiate a new agricultural element to the SEW Programme, that we would like to support our current and future beneficiaries with, this scheme will eradicate food poverty and the barriers that these women have accessing land in Uganda. We want to give each woman on our programme the opportunity to work with our agricultural expert on how to grow a vertical kitchen garden, training in farming cash crops and renting for them 2 acres of land each and the seeds for their first harvest starting in December 2023.

Further more, we aim to sustainably empower as many vulnerable families in Lango Subregion as possible, starting by raising the funds to launch a 3rd cycle of the SEW programme in December 2024 and to do this we need your support!