Long live FAF!

Doreen and two of her daughters

Nanfuka Doreen is 25 years old and married to Isanga Grace. Together they have three daughters. The eldest daughter, who is 8, stays with her grandmother. The other two live with Doreen and Grace. 

Doreen enrolled in the second group of the Far Away Friends tailoring project in Bubago. When she graduated last year she was given a sewing machine. She then began looking for capital to start her sewing business. She decided to sell cabbage by moving from one house to another with a tray of cabbage on her head. She involved her children in the business of selling cabbage. They moved as a team and the money they received as profit was saved to use as start-up capital. She used that money to buy kitenge fabrics and made clothes out of it. She also started selling crocs shoes for children. She says, “this business of sewing and selling crocs shoes has helped me a lot to support my family financially. I am now able to buy basic needs at home. FAF is a real blessing to us women of Bubago”. Her husband doesn’t support the family so Doreen is the breadwinner at home. 

She is happy that C2U came to Bubago village and introduced the FAF program to uplift and empower women. She says, “Before being part of FAF, I was hopeless, and suffering with my children. Sometimes we slept with hungry stomachs and meeting basic needs was a challenge. But now I am able to support my family. Long live FAF, long live Julie.” 

Doreen also has generated capital to buy these shoes and sell them locally.

Some of the clothes Doreen has made for sale.