We’d like you to meet, Santa, one of our Ugandan women artisans. Owiny hand rolls the recycled paper beads that you see in our online Shop. She has been a member of our Ugandan women’s beader group for quite a few years. She is a good beader and also sews cloth items on her manual sewing machine.
Women’s Craft Earnings Make a Life Changing Difference
Your purchases of jewelry and craft products from our online store helps Santa feed her family and buy medicines too. She also can send her children to school. Besides that, it enabled her to start her own personal business. Lastly, she is using some of her bead earnings to save money for a down payment on a home. Outreach Uganda is helping to build homes for eligible Ugandan women artisans.
Santa’s Story and Our New Product Tags Highlight the Meaning of Your Gift of Their Products for the Holidays
Santa’s household consists of herself, four children and three other dependents. She is 50 years old. Santa fled to Jinja in 1988 from northern Uganda because of the war that was going on there. Besides beading, she earns additional income by distilling and has a small shop near the port area of Jinja. She is saving money and hopes to own her own home one day as part of Outreach Uganda’s home ownership program.
Santa’s story is not unusual. We hope you’ll read more of our Ugandan women’s stories. We recently re-designed our product tags. Now each tag prominently features a colorful photo of one of our Ugandan women artisans. Please check out our Ugandan women’s products featured in our online Shop. Besides making the simpler necklaces and bracelets, Santa loves to make the snowflake ornaments as well as the sling bags and cloth coin purses.