KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...

One method of combating extreme poverty is providing cash grants to allow people to start businesses. We go to Uganda to take a look at one such... Innovating Ways to Address Poverty in Uganda One ...

Rev. Sembuya introduces the community to the newly trained Scientology Volunteer Ministers and the programs they are planning for the benefit of the region. Even in Uganda, where malnutrition is the ...

In agriculture, the period parents spend nursing sick children is lost whereas it could be used to grow crops for food and income. When this mainstay of the economy suffers, the very fabric of the ...

Yesterday, protests against soaring costs of living, corruption and poverty erupted in Kampala, Uganda. They were savagely repressed by the US-backed Yoweri Museveni regime, which has ruled the ...

Uganda’s National Forestry Authority (NFA) and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) provided practical training to women and youth in tailoring and metal fabrication. Photo: NFA and UWA When the ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cost-effective, high-impact projects that enable extremely poor households to escape poverty funded by USAID were terminated earlier this year; one is able ...

Nonprofit invites community to help fund land purchase for school, farm, and community well in Kiboga, Uganda. “This land represents possibility. Securing it allows us to build a school, a farm, and a ...

A program in southwest Uganda aims to address extreme poverty by giving people cash and coaching to help them build a sustainable income. But even the most established programs need to keep evolving.