Constance and her new home in Friendship Village
You have overcome! “Banange kino siki kiriza!” “My dears I can not believe this!” exclaims Constance Nakaliri who has been waiting to get a house for the past one year, really her entire life.
Constance is a beader with the Kakwanzi group. She graduated last June before she could build a house because she was too sick and did not have enough savings to put in a down payment. With the help of her businesses of operating a telephone booth and selling used cloths she managed to save money to make a down payment and she now owns a house in Friendship Village!
Constance can not hold tears of joy as she meets her new neighbors Fatuma and Sabina who are also former beaders with her in Kakwanzi group. Her neighbors are happy for their sister Constance who has joined them in Friendship Village and say to her “Owangudde.” (You have overcome). They help her clean her house by bringing clean water, brushes, and flowers and start telling her the secrets of how to get comfortable in Friendship Village.
Constance had been living in a single room with her three children in the slums of Bwaise Kazo a suburb built in a swamp with poor sanitary and drainage systems. She moves into a well planned village and clean environment, in a three roomed house, a latrine and bathroom to herself and family. And the corn is already growing.
Congratulations Constance!
Tags: Africa, Beaders, celebrate, Empowering Women, Housing, Poverty Eradication, sustainability, Uganda, Women Making A Difference