Life Changers

Date the team formed: 2018

Number of team members: 30

Total number of beneficiaries: 266

Amount Funded:$555

Life Changers (Oloko Kwo), one of two new teams in Northern Uganda, is a highly organized and unified team of 30 remarkable women living and working in Bobayo village in Gulu, Uganda. Having completed the Academy for Conscious Change intensive training in late 2018, Life Changers took ownership of an ailing borehole and launched their water venture in late October. This dedicated group is addressing and eradicating water-borne disease in their community by expanding access to clean, safe, and reliable water to 630 people in their village. Life Changers has already begun offering sanitation and hygiene training to 120 women, 80 men and 200 children. Through community sensitization training they help their neighbors understand the devastating impacts of water-borne disease. We visited team Life Changers in April of 2019, where they performed a drama on the effects of water borne disease in their community. Their performance was touching and deeply impactful.

Life Changers’ long term sustainability plan includes the sale of beautiful and practical baskets that are traditionally used to sort sorghum seed during harvest. To expand their craft market, they will be training 24 additional community members in basketry, and the profits from basket sales will fund future borehole repairs and provide school scholarships to children in their village.