Helen Early

2 December 2018

‘Living Positively’ with HIV in Uganda

Helen Early

2 December 2018

This year’s World AIDS Day, which marked its 30th anniversary on 1 December, aimed to highlight the importance of being HIV-status aware and called for barriers to HIV testing to be removed. In Uganda, United Purpose’s partner organisation, KCA (Keep a Child Alive) and the Alive Medical Services are challenging these barriers; working on the front line in the fight against AIDS, they are supporting people like Harriet and Esther to lead fulfilling lives.

Comms Account

12 November 2018

Giving peace a chance

Comms Account

12 November 2018

In North West Cameroon, increasing competition for access to land and water continues to create conflict and stir up hostility between cattle herders and crop farmers. But herder Alhadji Hamadam Melam has been at the forefront of an initiative to give peace a chance in his local community of Njah-Etu, in the Momo area.

Helen Early

23 September 2018

Prisons, potatoes and making progress

Helen Early

23 September 2018

As part of a wider project to increase Irish potato production in Mozambique, we’ve been working with inmates at Tinonganine Open Prison. This forward-looking collaboration has been a rewarding venture, both for inmates as they transition back into the community, and the community itself.

Helen Early

16 September 2018

A problem shared: Boosting women’s businesses in rural Ghana

Helen Early

16 September 2018

For many women in rural Ghana, entrepreneurial ambitions are all too regularly crushed by unequal access to banks and investment. Over the last six years, we’ve been supporting groups of women to revolutionise their own ability to kick-start enterprise, by setting up Village Savings groups.

Helen Early

26 August 2018

Opening a can of worms – how Kakon is building his unusual enterprise from the ground up

Helen Early

26 August 2018

In the village of Boyerbanga in Khulna District, Southwest Bangladesh, the ground is shifting. For Kakon Mollick, a new business opportunity has laid the foundations for more than just greater financial security for him and his family of three.