ASSET is proud to have supported the confident and capable Dorcas M in completing her bachelor’s degree in accounting. Thanks to the hard work and support of her mother and extended family, Dorcas was able to complete secondary education even after her father passed away. However, finances were always a challenge to her education, and she was only able to enroll in higher education after an uncle loaned her money. Thankfully, ASSET was able to step in to support Dorcas through the rest of her accounting program, which she describes as the biggest miracle she’s had thus far in her life. At first, her family didn’t believe that such a scholarship existed. Dorcas herself recalls feeling impressed that people actually care enough to give money for such a scholarship; her gratitude is unending. As the first in her family to attend university, everyone looks up to her. She explains that this is also a great responsibility, because “you’re everyone’s candle, and you have to keep that candle lit at all times.” As a result, with the support from ASSET, Dorcas automatically learned to be a leader and to be exemplary in all she does.

Dorcas graduated in February 2017 and her thirst for excellence is apparent in her career aspirations as well. She has completed two internships to date and was involved in training at KSK Associates, a Ugandan financial consulting firm, until May 2017. Dorcas says she is now preparing for her accounting certification (ACCA) exam in Sept 2017 and will be applying for job opportunities in several organizations. She dreams one day of working with the UN, and also hopes to use her skills to contribute to improvements within the Ministry of Health in Uganda. The ASSET team admires Dorcas’ confidence and her desire to invest in her community. We are proud of her many accomplishments and invite you join us in wishing her continued success!

Please help us continue this work. Email us at admin@assetuganda.org to learn more.

We would like to introduce to you Dr. Aminah; a graduate of Makerere Medical School in Kampala, Uganda. Aminah  is now doing her residency in family medicine at Mulago Hospital and is one of the newest additions to ASSET Uganda’s scholarship and mentoring program.

Unlike the residency programs in other countries, the residents in Uganda have to pay tuition during their residency training. This makes it hard for young doctors to cope with this especially challenging part of their training. It is especially hard for female doctors who usually have fewer opportunities for scholarships and who in many cases have children of their own to take care of.

That is why we are very proud to have this opportunity to support Dr. Aminah and we are confident that people like her can only make Ugandan communities healthier and, as a result, more economically successful. Aminah is an ASSET.

During her recent trip to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania with the president, Michelle Obama emphasized the importance of one issue over others – a good education. Donate $20 to ASSET (www.assetuganda.org) and help us make a difference. Your donation will not only help support promising Ugandan college students, you will also receive an offer to have any one of our lovely pieces of Ugandan jewelry shipped to you.

Thank you,

ASSET

Welcome to ASSET’s new website. In addition to the new look and feel; we’re excited to introduce our fully functional “Bead2Read” shop where you can order your favorite Ugandan-made jewelry to support our mission. Please also check out our new video to learn a little more about the students we support. Please make a donation in whatever amount you can and help us keep this work going.
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We are thrilled to announce that ASSET has been selected to be one of Dining for Women’s featured programs for 2013.  ASSET will receive $45,000 over two years to send 20 high-potential young Ugandan women from disadvantaged backgrounds to college and to support a group of impoverished women artisans.

Sixteen out of 100 children in Uganda go to high school. 7 are girls. Only 3 will graduate, and even fewer will go to college.

We are changing that. For several years, ASSET has been opening doors to higher education for bright young people in Uganda, providing leadership training and mentorship along with scholarships for university tuition. Now, we get to do it on an even bigger scale, providing 20 bright young women with university scholarships and offering a more robust, longitudinal leadership curriculum. Our minds are already racing, wondering who these 20 young women will be and what they will go on to become—lawyers, nurses, computer programmers, engineers, public health workers? We can only imagine.

The grant will also support an existing group of female artisans from impoverished backgrounds by providing training in product design and development, financial literacy and entrepreneurship and by ensuring that they earn a fair wage. We have already seen how connecting these artisans with a market makes a huge difference in their lives and the lives of their families. Research shows that when a woman earns money, she invests it back into her family–health care and education for her children, nutritious food, etc. We look forward to working more with these women in the coming years.

Dining for Women is a non-profit organization that operates educational dinner giving circles. Chapter members come together once a month to dine, pot-luck, and learn about programs that empower women worldwide. The donations they raise at these dinners go to support international programs that focus on women’s economic development, education and healthcare. You can read more about Dining for Women’s great work here: www.diningforwomen.org.