What's Next?
Online Resources
Laptops & Phones
Many are living in the rural areas where there is limited network coverage and very few of them have smartphones and computers. This makes it hard to reach people by phone and SMS, let alone Whatsapp and email, and also makes it difficult to connect them to online platforms and resources. One of our training modules is about creating a database of funders and writing proposals, and another is all about capturing success stories and producing quality content, which is very difficult to do without smartphones, internet access and laptops.
Trauma Healing
During the training and mentorship, many of the women opened up and shared horrific memories from their abduction and captivity, and it became clear that there is still a need for trauma healing. We are working on developing an innovative yet simple and inexpensive way to roll this out, based on the approach and model of the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe and Philani Mentor Mothers in South Africa. We have had meetings with them and they are happy to do training for our members in Uganda.
Vocational Skills
Our participants were very grateful for the training but they also emphasized the urgent day-to-day needs of their beneficiaries, appealing for assistance with education for their children, as well as vocational skills training for their youth. St. Bakhita Vocational Center is geared toward CBoW and very reasonably priced. We would like to support these families to educate their children which will help to lift them out of poverty and build a brighter future for all of them.