Evace works in R4W in basket weaving. She is one of the oldest member of the organization. She is living with her husband and 8 children in a house that she constructed herself with mud and sticks. She has benefited from many of R4W projects that improved her life.

Provia works in R4W in basket weaving. She lives in Rubona with her big family. It is far from Buhoma but she is happy and grateful to work in the organization and she walks every day an hour and a half to get to R4W through the hills.

Grace is one of the members who joined R4W from the very beginning. She is a single mother and works in R4W sewing program. R4W provided her with a job, a salary and the opportunity to have many friends with whom she feels very attached to.

Happiness works in R4W in basket weaving. She lives with her husband and 4 grandchildren in a house that they are improving little by little. She and her husband have benefited from many of the R4W projects.

Tukahirwa Mary has been running her business for more than 20 years. With R4W microloans she has been able to increase her business and build a new and bigger house for her family.

Edith has a food store in Buhoma’s market. She has been benefited from the microfinance program with R4W several times that has allowed her to increase her business.

Constanza manages a secondhand clothes business in Buhoma. She has experienced many changes throughout the three years of business.

Talent Peace is running a clothing business nowadays. She has been benefited from microfinance program through R4W.

Penina has a food business in Buhoma. She received a loan from R4W that allowed her to start her business.

Jonah is an inspiration. Once the proprietor of a small restaurant on Buhoma’s main street – the Kyirahuura Bwindi Hotel, she is now the proud owner of the only community grocery shop in her village of Nyakatore, just around the corner.

Evace Kemirembe is an experienced market-stall holder in the community of Buhoma, with a regular and large customer base who visit daily to buy their food supplies.

Recently, Edith Tukahirwa, Buhoma resident, received a loan of 1 million Ugandan shillings to support the growth of her now thriving food market stall in Buhoma, in the heart of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.

Four months ago, Doreen Akampurira, local Buhoma resident and member of the Ride for a Woman women’s empowerment initiative, applied and qualified for a loan of 1 million Ugandan shillings (£200 or $280). Her plan was to invest in a stock of second hand clothes sourced from suppliers in Kampala and sell them both from her rented unit in Buhoma and from various local markets.

In April 2017, Ruth Turyamureeba, local Buhoma resident and both member and Chairperson at R4W, borrowed 700,000 Ugandan shillings (£140 or just under $200) with the goal of investing in a sewing machine.

For 2 years Charlotte Atuheire had run a small boutique in Buhoma but with her husband retired she was unable to afford to extend her stock and expand her business. Charlotte could not cover some basic costs of living and really wanted to be able to send her son to school.