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Each day, a group of women in Northern Uganda gather in a simple brick hut to begin work. Their tools are small, just a hook and some yarn, yet the end product is something much more meaningful than a style accessory. The crocheted products these women are making have a far reaching impact. They provide immediate stability for their families, share about the realities of poverty, and their sale promotes the development of their community.
The Krochet Program was born out of our love for crocheting and our desire to make a difference. Currently, there are ten Ugandan women who are crocheting hats and enjoying a newfound livelihood. This new opportunity is supplemented with other educational training to help them sustain and provide for their families both now and in the years to come.
Currently there are 10 participants in our Krochet Program. Their backgrounds are varied, but their needs-and their desire to be empowered-are the same. Their pasts have given them few opportunities, yet they are committed to working towards a brighter future for themselves and their families.
Through these women numerous others are being helped. Their families are being fed, and their children are attending school. The sale of Krochet Kids International product generates revenue that will be returned to help the greater community. Thus, the wake of change is poured out on those around them due to the new skills they've learned.
After enduring years of political instability and violent struggles for power, most of Uganda has enjoyed stability and relative development since the mid 1980s. The story has been drastically different in the country's north, however, where the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), led by Joseph Kony, began its campaign in 1986. The rebellion, initially sparked by political and spiritual aspirations, lost many of its outward ideological ambitions over the years, and became more of a source of terrorism to locals than a legitimate challenge to the government. The brutal slaughter of civilians, burning of homes and property, and abductions of over 30,000 children to be used as soldiers, laborers, or wives for the rebel officers, serve as a testament to the horrific actions of the LRA over the 20 years of fighting, the ineffective protection offered by the Ugandan military, and the resilience of the people of northern Uganda.