Like many other poor subsistence farmers in the area, David Ochieng earned a living from his small plot. Two years ago, IIRR started working with a group of farmers in Omoro District 380 km from Kampala, the Ugandan capital. He joined the group to access, improved...
Miriam is a member of IIRR’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Community Conversation Facilitator’s (CCF) team in the Gulu district of Northern Uganda. She took advantage of the Village and Savings Loan Association (VSLA) program that IIRR initiates for its Sexual and...
Joffrey is a Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) facilitator in Nwoys district in northern Uganda, some 400 km north of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. He qualified for a loan of UGX300,000 ($100) from a Village Savings and Loan (VSL) group organized by IIRR Sexual and...
Jackie is only 21 years old and is already a mother of 2 children, ages 4 and 5. When she got married at the age of 15 she lost all hope of continuing her education. She quit school upon completing only primary class 7. By the time she was 17, she had become a mother...
Okot Noyes is 18 years old and lives in Nwoya district some 380 km north of Uganda’s capital, Kampala. When he was seven years old, LRA rebels attacked his village and mercilessly killed his parents while they were on their way to school with him. Luckily, Noyes...
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