StepUp is about working together to break the cycle of poverty. StepUp aims to help families to help themselves out of poverty and to become self-reliant. It works with men and women, ensuring both have an equal voice in issues faced by their family; and by bringing the community together, StepUp helps to tackle the long-term effects of poverty, war and prevent future conflict. In partnership together, we can help StepUp families to help themselves to a better life.
StepUp tackles the key reasons people are trapped in poverty. Through an intensive training programme, StepUp teaches people:
- How to grow their own food more effectively, and sell the excess to pay for other needs.
- How to maintain a clean and safe home, preventing the spread of disease.
- How to start a business and save for the future
- How to work together as a community, with strong women leaders
Sustainable Agriculture
When you are just trying to survive day-to-day, you can’t think beyond finding your next meal. StepUp ensures that people have a reliable source of food.
Social Ventures
We currently run three enterprises, targeting communities living on less than $3 per day.
- Roots
- Right Lights
- Petals
Savings And Credit
works with the families to set up savings and credit groups. Through these groups the families learn to manage their savings and can access small loans
- VSLA Raises Dreams
- Book Keeping
- Managing savings and loans
- Small scale business
Gender and Community Development
Empowering Communities through
- Sanitation and Health
- Community Leadership
- Offering Education to Girls
It’s simple, but these are the crucial skills that allow people to take the first steps from poverty towards prosperity. These skills give people the understanding, belief and self-esteem to change their own circumstances, and keep it that way.
Thanks to International Refugee Trust (IRT– UK) support, together we are able to help communities in northern Uganda to fully recover from the effects of the Lords Resistance Army’s (LRA) violence and alleviate extreme poverty. We can also go further, ensuring all families have bright futures and are able to achieve their dreams
