Goats and Soda

editor's note

Dear readers,

In Uganda, a new program was launched this year to help lift Sudanese refugees and local Ugandans out of extreme poverty. Each participant would get $205 and training in how to start a small business.

This project was canceled in February because of the Trump administration's foreign aid cuts.

Correspondent Fatma Tanis visited Uganda and spoke to some of the individuals who had dreamed of finding a way out of poverty.

"I was completely hopeless when I saw the message," said Santa Angwech, a 26-year-old single mom with three children. She'd planned to earn money by making cassava chips from plants in her yard and selling them at the market. "The big question that I have is how you can solve my problems. That is the only thing I need, because if I know how to solve the problem, nothing will defeat me."

Read the story here.

Marc Silver,
Editor, Goats and Soda

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