Our Story
Five students. Personal savings. An unshakeable belief that every woman deserves the chance to rebuild.
1. It Began with a Visit and a Conviction
Five university students visited Nakivale Refugee Settlement and found themselves unable to look away. What they saw were not problems — they saw mothers carrying their families on their shoulders with almost nothing to work with.
“We didn’t come with answers. We came because we felt that if we turned away, something in us would be diminished.”
2. Nakivale — A Place of Refuge and of Need
Nakivale hosts 130,000+ refugees from the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, and Somalia. Young mothers carry not just the practical burden of single parenthood — but the invisible weight of trauma, grief, and deep uncertainty about the future.
That is the gap Uplift Her Hub was built to fill — not as charity, but as solidarity.
3. The Chalk Pilot — A Turning Point
The chalk production program connected mothers to the education of children in their own community. Each piece of chalk they made went directly to local schools. It created more than income — it created pride and purpose.
4. 48 Mothers — Community Rebuilt
Today 48 mothers are organised into four community groups — each named after an animal symbolising strength and resilience. They produce, they counsel, they support one another. They are not beneficiaries. They are leaders.
“48 mothers. Four groups. Hundreds of children with brighter futures because their mothers stood up again.”
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