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This past weekend LGH was asked to show the completed 'Moving On' film to about 400 women at the Created for Care Adoption retreat in Atlanta, GA. We got overwhelming responses of encouragement from the attendees of the film and had an excellent weekend getting to share about what we are continuing to do in Uganda. We were excited to be asked back for their next retreat this March to do another film showing!

Top left photo: Rose from women's right initiative,top right and bottom photo: suubi women gather for training.

Over the last five months Light Gives Heat in Uganda has built up a strong relationship with Rose Kigere, who is from the Women's Rights Initiative in Jinja. Initially we got into contact with Rose to deliver some important training sessions on domestic violence and women's rights to our Suubi community. It seems domestic violence is an area which does not get much attention, we found it very challenging actually finding an organization or even any information which deals in this area. After talking to Rose and her colleagues it turns out that not only are there a limited amount of organizations which deal with women's rights in the whole of Uganda but also at current in Jinja there is no shelter or space for victims of domestic violence to flee to. Not having a safe space for these women really does hinder their personal progress.

Rose's three week training sessions with our Suubi community proved to be a great success. Rose has a talent of delivering difficult topics in a very personal and approachable way whilst simultaneously offering solutions. Six of our ladies were so inspired by Rose that they underwent training with her to become community counselors.

These superb six women are near the end of their training. They now meet monthly with Rose in one of our lady's houses. Soon they will be at their community's service offering help and support to women experiencing trauma. It really is amazing observing the training, seeing six women growing and becoming more articulate, confident and above all powerful.

Rose really is doing a great thing here in Jinja, to see what she is up to please visit her at:

www.woriuganda.com
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So this week the LGH office has been gearing up for some exciting things coming in February. The whole office is pitching in to get things done. Stay tuned to this space to find out what's in February!

From our new year spring clean at the Magwa house, Andrea found we had many necklace samples which had been buried away in the workshop. So instead of taking up space we decided to host a sample sale last Friday. Two of our Suubi solar group, Janet and Emily, saw the opportunity to do a solar demonstration and so joined us for the day. It was a great day, we met lots more of the local community and some old faces turned up, including Agatha our old technical production assistant with her new baby, have a look at the pictures.

Janet's and Emily's solar demonstration skills were fantastic as they managed to create a lot of interest in the different solar products-I think perhaps the solar chocolate, pineapple and banana cakes may have helped with the attention as well! A few sales were made and some new networks were formed.

We got a visit from our great friend Rose along with her colleague, Anette, from the Womens' Rights Initiative. Rose has been giving various talks to the Suubi ladies about different women issues for some time now, she is a fantastic speaker and is very popular amongst the Suubi group. We managed to have a good sit down and talk about working together with some different projects this year which is very exciting.

Lauren Tittle
Project Coordinator

Light Gives Heat
Uganda

We have been working on a few exciting projects here in the office. Here is a little sneak peek from the creative team. They have been working tirelessly on some new print materials, all of which have been hand-drawn! Stay tuned, we will be showing more behind the scenes photos, as well as, what all this is for!