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Thread of Life is a Women Empowerment project that was birthed from the realization that any goal of long term sustainability or restoration for the people of Uganda must begin with the family unit. Preventing parents from abandoning their children in the first place; encouraging, empowering, and lifting up parents to take ownership and responsibility for their children, and providing the tools necessary to combat poverty, so that, together, they may have a chance for a brighter future. This all begun by us showing up and building relationships in a local slum called Katanga, we also learned that most of our street children in our capital city Kampala are from the slums and the majority are being sent to the streets by their mothers to beg for food, some of these children had turned into young thugs and some are being killed in mob justice because of robbery, eventually the need arose to provide some job skills and training. From a small, rented, shop a few woman began practi

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