Newsletters

Dear Friends of African Women Rising, I have been feeling a bit stuck lately. In all senses of the word. I’m sure I am not alone. We have all experienced unprecedented changes to our lives, changes relating to health, movement,…

Dear Friends of African Women Rising, The restriction put in place to prevent the virus from spreading in Uganda have been effective. So far the number of cases in Uganda is 1,043. This is out of a population of 43…

Dear Friends of African Women Rising, This weekend marks World Refugee Day. It is a day to honor and acknowledge the plight of the 80 million people who have been forced to leave their homes because of war, conflict or persecution. 26 million of those…

Dear Friends of African Women Rising, This Sunday, March 8, we celebrate International Women’s Day. The theme for this year is “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights” It’s about time! Despite years of struggle, real change continues to be…

Our work in Northern Uganda continues to expand and create life changing opportunities. Some key highlights from 2018: We currently provide support to more than 15,000 women and men, reaching close to 90,000 children (a 35% increase from 2017). A record number of students in the Girls Education program…

Our success in Northern Uganda is measured by the level of financial independence experienced by the women in our programs. In this, we consider increases in the amount of food they are growing, the number of new businesses that have been started; the amount…

Paicho, Gulu District, Northern Uganda. Fiona is 13 years old and wants nothing more than to go to school. That’s her dream. To achieve this she works weekends and holidays at a stone quarry. It is grueling. She gets a…

Let’s admit it – Community Action Fund for Women in Africa — is a mouthful. It’s long, and few people remember it. We have been feeling for some time that our name, which was most often used as the acronym CAFWA, didn’t quite…