Building Pathways to Self-Sufficiency
It was just over 6 years ago that I first visited Africa Development Promise’s cooperative partners. At that point I was returning to Africa to visit friends I had made when I spent three months in Rwanda and Uganda in 2012. In between those two trips, I met Monica and had become interested in her work in East Africa and …
The summer of 2020 was filled with uncertainty, fear and stress, as the world attempted to follow the ever changing trajectory of COVID-19. After being sent home from college and spending upwards of four months in my childhood bedroom, I was unsure of what opportunities would await me in the summer. As a junior going into my senior year at …
Preparing for 2021 and Beyond In 2014, Africa Development Program launched its programs in Rwanda and Uganda with a mission to drive the collective action of rural entrepreneurial women to advance sustainable business and economic independence. We knew that we wanted to work with groups of women because we believe that collective action, training, and enterprise are proven pathways for …
Blog By Mary Matthews
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates Melinda Gates’, “Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World”, is a thoughtful and well-reasoned book that tackles gender inequality and brings awareness to the issue through inspiring stories of women around the world. Gates discusses topics such as family planning, girl’s education, early child marriage, …
By Cindi Mick In March 2019, I visited Africa Development Promise’s projects in Rwanda and Uganda and witnessed the wonderful progress made in the field. I was deeply impacted by the difference the women are making in their communities and families. I left inspired, with a renewed hope and an optimistic view of the world. It was wonderful to be …
Africa Development Promise has been working with the Epaphroditus Women’s Cooperative – a 32-member mushroom growing group in Uganda – since 2015. The women were members of a local church and were so inspired by a biblical figure named Epaphroditus that they decided to ban together to improve their social and economic condition by pooling their savings to start a …
Africa Development Promise currently supports three agricultural cooperatives in Uganda that produce a variety of crops —from indoor mushroom farming to outdoor farming of soy beans, cassava, sweet potatoes and maize. In 2019, Africa Development Promise, in collaboration with University of Colorado’s IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT), will launch a data-enabled or climate smart agricultural initiative. The …
Africa Development Promise’s (ADP) impact is spreading in the Bugesera District of Rwanda. The positive impact has been noticed by many, but more so by Turwayne Inzara Mu Ngo Zacu, an agricultural cooperative that neighbors an ADP-sponsored cooperative. In one short year the ADP-sponsored cooperative was thriving — it had constructed two greenhouses and their tomato harvest was booming! Inspired …