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Jul 11th, 2008 - 15:23:44 |
Rebecca Lohman
Hello Rebecca,
Thank you very much for your efforts and concern about women. I do strongly support women emanicipation in uganda. Am very much aware about the hardships a rural woman in uganda pass through, am in the position but i know very many uneducated mothers what they pass through. Poverty is the order of the day. You find a woman bearing 6 babies , leaving 4 at home and carries one at her back and goes to dig,fetch water ,collect fire wood, in order to earn a living. I wish you knew what being a rural woman in uganda means!!! How ever, its nice that we are to work on this project that will enable every woman participate and hope other programs that will work to improve and modernise these ladies will come on slowly. We need to fight poverty, AIDS, and illetracy. Hope i have tried to highlight about our group. Lets work together. Thanks.
Mary.
On 6/25/08, Nakimbugwe mary wrote:
That is very important Rebecca, we like that. Our group is about establishing projects that can generate income for the families since most of the women are the ones caring for families here. More information will be sent to you.
On 6/24/08, cpgraces@juno.com wrote:
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Brenda and Mary:
I am curious to find out more about what your group does as I do advocacy for many women. I understand it is a serious issue in Uganda and that more jobs need to be estblished for you to bring economic stability to the family. I am also working with anotherr man from UGANDA other than Tony who says his dream is to establish a University and more jobs for you
Jul 10th, 2008 - 15:44:52 |
Rebecca Lohman
Hello Rebecca,
Thank you for your email. I would say as an educated woman in uganda, the only way to encourage education in any family is first to make the family economically sustainable. The reason why young girls do not go to school is because the families thy come from are poor. So by helping these families more so the women because they care alot will help. Any project aiming at helping the women especially in rural areas will help these girls. I would like to go back to farming projects because uganda's main activity is Agriculture. How ever envolving women in other activitis like crafts, pottery may help but the question is will they generate enough money? I discussed with Tony about the project and said it was good but was scared of the large sums of starting it. I would say even with small capital we can start because every woman will be involved here. With every woman involved, other programs that involves teaching women about poverty, AIDS, drama and music will be easy since every one will be active. The women like writing so much but remember their hearts are always in income generating activities so that they can sustain their families, once that is done other programs can easily be followed. Our group will perform drama and arts to sensitive the community about AIDS, poverty and illiteracy.
Hope i have clearly explained. Get to me with more questions please. Thanks
On 7/9/08, cpgraces@juno.com wrote:
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Brenda I have been thinking about the project proposal you have sent me. What are you thinking as to the details of the project and how will this bring some skills to the girls and women you are working with? Since the fathers do not support education for these young women what would they like to see happen for themselves. Would some of them like to write or learn how to write. Tell me in little more detail about this group of women. Rebecca
please pass this on to mary as well
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Jul 10th, 2008 - 15:43:22 |
Rebecca Lohman
Your explaination is very clear andy thank you for clarifying. I will explain to Tony also that he should not be scared about money at all. Anything like what you have described in your proposal that you showed me concerning these women is a good worthwile project to invest in. If they care about issues like AIDES illiteracy and jobs then I can help you work towards a framework for income generation so we can target all three goals. I am not seeking my own benifit here, but trying to see how I can structure this to help the situation. What is the audience in which they are trying to raise awareness to--the government,there homes
I understand Tony's fear, he also spoke to me about this, but he should not be overly concerned as the mony has already been provided along with the necessary resources
As you did with the proposal, I too, shall be sending you material for your review and all three of us can work togeher towards a solution here to help make the project sustainable, along with educational material for the children. It does not take a whole lot of money to do this at all. I salute your efforts.
I can go ahead and write up a framework, and you can share this with mary as well. I am also trying to write something up for disabled children as some orf the children were describing working with them too and contructing houses for the community. May I make a suggestion that woman help in a community some how in order to generate some income? If at anytime you disagree with the plans please alert me and we can go ahead and ajust to meet necessary criteria and goals
communication with Brenda
Jul 9th, 2008 - 02:16:37 |
Rebecca Lohman
Banana Fibers
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Clay story
The civil war had been raging for long hours. Mama was out cleaning the pig pen to see if father put the extra dug in the cooking pile to eat the morning breakfast. She was a mysterious woman for it was Christmas day, but we missed our dances and drum music
Tony this is a pgs of the book talking about banna fibers. The picture will fit above the text of the hut that the children live in. I also have one clay child talking with a monkey his pet and sharing the bananas. I am trying to use the film and get the pictures developed now. I have been doing further research on UGANDAN culture and it has been helpful for me to help the women learn how to write. I understand that the men do not encourage these children with education. I explained this at the meeting I attended
Jul 8th, 2008 - 13:17:39 |
Rebecca Lohman
Another Book is done
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