Category Archives: Project Updates

Following the previous successes of the SPAU Wakiso Memory Work Project 2010, Aids-Hilfe Schweiz has pledged to support SPAU and Cooperaid, to translate a similar model of community interventions to fight HIV/AIDS stigma and misinformation in Mukono district by developing the … Continue reading →

We are very excited to report the end of what has been a successful empowerment project in the urban ‘villages’ of Busega and Nansana West. Through a skills empowerment project taking place across two urban poor communities in central Uganda, … Continue reading →

Rose is one of many single parents who have successfully transferred one-time charity support given to them into daily opportunities for themselves to make better of life’s challenges and hardships. Making women’s accessories with paper beads, Rose and her group … Continue reading →

Former World Vision staff, Jane Betts, is currently on a project visit to Uganda where she is learning about single parents’ projects supported by Advantage Africa, the charity she currently represents and developing new strategic plans with us for the … Continue reading →

We are currently in preparation to expand our work with Uganda Reflex, our UK Partner Organisation to benefit impoverished single parents’ communities in Luwero district.  The majority of our support projects are suitable for carrying out around the homestead where … Continue reading →

We were very honoured to be a part of the 01st September 2010 Kampala screening of Christa Graf’s ‘Memory Books‘ Film on Memory Work experiences here in Uganda. Memory Work is one of our key areas of focus in the fight against HIV/AIDS. … Continue reading →

Ms. Jacinta Sweeney is a friend of ours who is running the 2010 Great Scottish Run Half Marathon on 05/09/2010 in support of the work of Advantage Africa. Advantage Africa is one of our partner organisations and together, our joint … Continue reading →

The main aim of the SPAU Wakiso Memory Work Project was to support people affected by HIV/AIDS through offering them psycho-social counselling and transferring knowledge about the benefits of memory work strategies among people that have been affected by HIV/AIDS. … Continue reading →

SPAU has received a donation of sewing machines and training materials for a skills empowerment project from Tools for Self Reliance. The project is targeted at empowering 50 young and middle-aged single mothers in Nansana and Busega communities of Kampala with … Continue reading →