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Solutions Now Africa
Uganda
Приєднався 6 лют 2022
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Restoring Smiles
For nearly 10 years, Damalie Namuwanga has run The Good Samaritan Nutritional Center in central Uganda, helping babies born with cleft lips and palate abnormalities.
This story follows her journey, supporting mothers like Christine, who face stigma in their communities. With the help of 'Smile Train', the center provides life-changing nutritional care and surgery, restoring smiles and hope to families in need.
Watch how this initiative has transformed the lives of over 15,000 children in Uganda.
This story follows her journey, supporting mothers like Christine, who face stigma in their communities. With the help of 'Smile Train', the center provides life-changing nutritional care and surgery, restoring smiles and hope to families in need.
Watch how this initiative has transformed the lives of over 15,000 children in Uganda.
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How a Central Uganda Community Spends Farming Profits Collectively
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For a long time farmers in Kasasa, Kyotera district, Central Uganda, have looked at maize as their cash cow, because of their strategic location (near the Tanzanian border). However, a cocktail of; lack of extension services, cash to scale up production, and exploitative market middlemen had frustrated most. They are now using the 'power of community' to sell collectively. They have founded a '...
Sojo Elsewhere Ep3
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This episode features work from The Christian Science Monitor and BBC People Fixing the World.
Commune Fabric: A new era in Uganda fashion
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Ugandan innovator turns the most unfruitful part of a banana-the stem into eco-friendly fabric. While this technology has existed in different parts of Asia, In Uganda repurposing the stem has been limited to crafts and other inventions.Mawejje Muhammed Dimma set himself apart by being the first Ugandan to create fabric from a wasted stem. After several tries, he developed a washable, foldable,...
Tech for a Cleaner Future: Ugandan Innovator Uses Technology to Incentivize Plastic Waste Collection
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In Kajjansi, an urban community located approximately 16 kilometers south of Uganda’s capital Kampala, residents are gathering plastic waste in exchange for points redeemable for school fees or healthcare credits. This initiative utilize the "Recycle Pay App," a digital platform that tracks each participant’s points earned from plastic collection. The aim is to incentivize increased plastic rec...
'The Foot that never walks away'
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Uganda’s recurring battles with Foot and mouth disease have been hugely connected to neighboring Tanzania. In the past, data collected between 2011 and 2016 from four districts located along the border areas of Uganda and Tanzania, recorded 23 and 59 FMD outbreaks, respectively, for the entire study period. 46% of the 82 recorded outbreaks occurred in 20% of sub-counties and wards immediately n...
Fixing Food: Unpacking the Ugandan migrant nutrition challenge
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Kyaka 2 refugee settlement (Western Uganda) has a stunting rate that stands at a whopping 45.4% according to the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey of 2022. This is way higher than the national average of 30%. Childhood stunting is one of the most significant impediments to human development, globally affecting approximately 162 million children under the age of 5 years. Nonprofit Toil and Pr...
'The Short Legend'
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Mikka Tusiime alias The Short Legend(Makerere University Kampala student) is a jack of all trades. He is into music, dance, drama, media, and visual communication. But for all he has put his hands on, creating a media platform 'Infinity Radio' for fellow People Living with disability to express themselves and exercise their gift of speech is his proudest accomplishment. We feature Mikka in our ...
Women With Albinism Join Hands, Build Community Free From 'Witch-hunt'
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Looking at the segregation, life threats, and human rights violations people with albinism face in Uganda, three women; Doreen Mayanja, Faith Bwanika, and Diana Bakuyita, themselves with albinism and victims of social rejection pulled their savings and created a safe shelter for women and children living with the condition. CORRECTION: This Documentary was voiced by Precious Gift Aloyo, not Pre...
How The Uncertain Weather Patterns Are Propagating Malaria
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Uganda’s temperature and convectional rainfall offer a good climate for mosquitoes to breed and for the malaria parasite to grow. Dr. Jonathan Kayondo, a Senior Researcher in the Department of Entomology at the Uganda Virus Research Institute helps us understand the relationship between climate change and malaria.
Bicycles Fill Patient Evacuation Gap in Rural Uganda
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Only one public ambulance is available to over 200,000 Ugandans on average. Independent public service delivery monitors also say about 95% do not know who to reach out to in case of emergencies. However, residents in the remote communities of Jinja district, in Eastern Uganda are filling this void using a specialized bicycle. It has helped pregnant mothers and children reach health centers in ...
Rejected and Stateless: Northern Uganda's Children Of War Now Need Critical Solutions
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The leaders in Uganda's Northern City of Gulu are looking for interventions and responses to the identity and social acceptance challenge most young people born in war captivity are facing now. In this film, our reporter Dan Ayebare, and filmmaker Jeremiah Mukiibi went into the streets of Gulu to look into the life and plight of children born out of war. As a Solutions Platform, we believe this...
SOJO Elsewhere Ep 2
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In this episode, we feature work from 'The Guardian' and 'The National news'
Prossy Wanyana | Giant Women 2024
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Code Queens is bridging the exclusion and underrepresentation of women in the #tech industry. Prossy Wanyana, programs lead at Code Queens, stresses the importance of women uplifting those closest to them to achieve equal representation.
Gloria Nyakato Aheebwa/Giant Women 2024
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Gloria Nyakato established Teen Mum’s Voice, an initiative committed to aiding young mothers struggling with mental health issues, financial struggles, and barriers to education to speak out and bring their plight to the mainstream.
Ugandan Women Engineers Unite to Claim Place In Real Estate and Construction
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Ugandan Women Engineers Unite to Claim Place In Real Estate and Construction
Meet the Women Remaking Uganda's Motorcycle Taxis (Boda Boda) for the better!
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Meet the Women Remaking Uganda's Motorcycle Taxis (Boda Boda) for the better!
Susan Mujjawa Ananda/Giant Women 2024
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Susan Mujjawa Ananda/Giant Women 2024
Nawejje Doreen Mayanja/Giant women 2024
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Nawejje Doreen Mayanja/Giant women 2024
Co-creating a literate generation: Children in Uganda Read together to improve learning outcomes
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Co-creating a literate generation: Children in Uganda Read together to improve learning outcomes
From Dirt To Exquisite Art: A Look at Alex Muleke's Charcoal Canvas
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From Dirt To Exquisite Art: A Look at Alex Muleke's Charcoal Canvas
Absen tracking: Empowering quality education through attendance monitoring.
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Absen tracking: Empowering quality education through attendance monitoring.
K.A.W.U Smart Solution: Empowering Students with Financial Freedom and Security
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K.A.W.U Smart Solution: Empowering Students with Financial Freedom and Security
So touching story😢
Looking cute yet is hiv positive. I slept with over 30 men no protection but never got hiv I dont know what was driving 😢by then But thank God am now a changed gal 😢
Wow thanks. Every day I admire to learn sign language 🎉🎉
Proud ❤, nice story ❤.
Well done
Powerful message. Hero to the world. Thanks
Insightful!
❤❤🎉🎉 solutions now
Congratulations Leticia🥳🥳🥳
Jagaban🗣️🗣️🗣️am all smiles😊well-in on this🙌💪i like👏👏
Am loving🎉💃💃💃Goooo Dan, your taking this to a whole new level👏Well done😊
Earned alot of respect cute girl. Resoond please
I love the mindset of all these participants especially the lady from Kanungu.
BLACK PEOPLE WE NEED TO GO ON A GLOBAL STRIKE FOR 3 DAY AND SHUT DOWN THE ECONOMY AND DEMAND OUR REPARATIONS. WHILES ON STRIKE WE GO LIVE ON ALL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE ENGINE TO THE WORLD. WE BUILT IT, AND WE KEEP IT RUNING. SEE HOW MANY LIVES AND COMPANIES MAKE IT WITHOUT OUR LABOUR AND RESOURCES. ASE #ReparationsNow #3Days #GenZ ✊🏿
Well, you should have notified the girlfriend so she could be aware of the boyfriend's intention when he asked you in the first place.
Impressive! Well done, tech team.
Congratulations dearie, so proud of you 👏
Am proud of you Leticia 👏
well done leticia
Plastics are harmful to the environment. This is a great initiative moreso in light of the sustainablility hurdles we are faced with. Well done Leticia and the team behind this. 🎉
Good job
This is a good initiative. Thank you for bringing this to light Leticia 👏
perfect
Aluta continua dear. Your future is bright
Well done👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Great documentary 👌
Do you know Amref?
Wow!
Needs better title!
225 views
Don't give up and don't think about the man in the construction industry and network with black women all around the world you will see the impact. I guarantee you that.
You and your cattle are being sabotage.😢😢😢 Protect your investment at all times.
How?
Thanks dear cause am really brave now I can't be scared in the to express my status I continue taking medicine cause , that's life ❤❤
Hi, are you single...
Please can I meet you ?
👍👍👍
Am in kampala, where can i find you
Ilike the smile,it made me brave to the extent of suggesting
Is there a way to buy some of these products directly from Uganda? 🙏
Great work
My heart 😢😢
Wonderful documentary it is important that people are aware discrimination and treatment of PWAs in Uganda, All lives matter , and that includes PWAs.
We to be da best online radio in K'la...I gat da believe
Thanks for being part of our journey 😊
This is amazing. 🎉
Thanks
Keep up the talent... 👍👍👍
Thank you 😊😊😊
I like Miika's positive attitude to life. Go on, Miika. Wishing you an enormous breakthrough in life - with God on your side
Thanks my mentor and professor 🤗🤗🤗🤗
I'm really grateful for the support, and we shall continue to support each other in every way...
Thanks for the support. Dreaming big is my habit and achieving is my goal
If you want contact to me
But how can you reject your own blood 😢😢😢 Albinism is never acrime. Thanks to Women and Children Living with Albinism in Uganda (WACWAU), MCI and SOLUTIONS NOW AFRICA for this beautiful story. Kindly share any contacts through which one can get some of the products.
Love thisssss♥️
Lovely 😍