Education in Uganda.

 

 

 

 

GWG has provided funding for both secondary and post-secondary education for several Ugandan students struggling to fund their educations in post-conflict Gulu.  Usually semesters were paid one at a time, dependant on academic results.  On occasion years were paid in full, in advance in tandem with other invested private donors.

 

 

A special relationship was built for one of our directors who at the same time as her friend in Uganda, struggled under student loans and several part-time jobs in order to pay tuition. Every time she received her student loan funding, a portion would go to her Ugandan friend.  This was essentially the beginning of GWG.  A sharing of resources, between people who had met in extraordinary circumstance and shared similar values; both struggling to pursue higher education as a means of supporting their families, future and selves.  Needless to say, she wishes she could have helped more, but happily both she and her Ugandan friend graduated successfully.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microcredit in Chile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working to complete their Masters in Human Security and Peacebuilding, several GWG directors were based in Temuco, Chile working on an in-country conflict analysis.  While working they required the skills of a translator; a young university woman named May.  One GWG director took it upon himself to organize a microcredit loan for May, affording her a zero-interest one year loan - in order to fund her participation in an international indigenous rights conference at the UN.  Studying arts and indigenous studies, May made the most of her opportunity in the conference, lining up opportunities and negotiating further microloans upon successful repayment of her first. Profiting from her skills, education and networking capacities afforded through these conferences, May secured a scholarship for her post-graduate studies in her field. She has repaid the loans in full within the required terms and is on her way to a successful career in indigenous rights.