10/12/2023
Meet our Grace Villa, Kabale child Saudah Akankwasa, proudly posing in a skirt suit that she made herself.
We are grateful to UIRI (Uganda Industrial Research Institute) for providing a grant that supported Saudah in furthering her tailoring skills. Her second certificate from UIRI, this time she graduated from a 4-month intensive program in Textiles, Fashion & Design. On Friday she traveled back to Kabale, ready to pass her new skills on to her Grace Villa sisters, and to the community.
Women’s entrepreneurship holds a critical place in Uganda’s efforts to revive its economy from domestic financial shocks such as that of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the “Uganda Jobs Strategy for Inclusive Growth”, micro, small, and medium enterprises created within the past five years now generate over 50% of formal jobs, and household enterprises provide employment for 3.1 million households.
We are honored to play a role in this curve by providing skills training in various fields, not only to the next generation of women like our child Saudah, but also to the guardians of our children who lost their livelihoods during the pandemic. Or who simply need empowerment.
*Our Grace Villa Kikazi Tailoring Workshop is equipped with industrial sewing machines kindly donated to us by UIRI, manual sewing machines from Airtel Uganda , Rotaract Uganda Group as well as an Overlock Machine from Young Angels Network Uganda-YAN. Our tailoring space was remodeled by Juliet Mpiima.
When you donate to Grace Villa, you support programs such as this. For more about us: www.linktr.ee/grace.villa.kabale
