Nakate and Mama Hope

Mama Hope, what an appropriate name. She is a Ugandan mother of seven who has found hope in The Nakate Project. Nakate's concept is simple: provide jobs through jewelry-making, which empowers women with means to raise their own money to feed their families. And to simplify it more, there is a small staff and all state-side administration is done on a volunteer-basis making it possible to send all proceeds directly to these women. The women in the program take scraps of paper and old wrappers and roll them up into beads for necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. What a beautiful metaphor it is: taking things that were once condemned to the trash heap, and turning them into something gorgeous, life-giving and life-changing. This is exactly what Nakate does for the women of Uganda: takes them out of a hopeless situation and offers a chance for women to work with their own hands and creative minds to give life to their families.



This week Nakate is partnering with Tipping Bucket to raise $2,000. Nakate currently needs to raise $2,000 so they are able to ship the necklaces to the states before they are purchased and to pay the Ugandan family who facilitates the program. Nakate is committed to paying monthly salaries to the women (40 women get $37.50 a month) which takes start up costs than are incurred prior to the sale of the jewelry. The way Tipping Bucket works is like this: If Nakate raises the goal of $2,000 in the allotted time, Nakate gets to keep the money. If not, all the donations go back to you, the individual donors. All they are asking for is each person to donate one dollar starting Monday here and to spread the word. You can probably find that in your couch. One dollar may be small in the eyes of the world, but to Mama Hope it is the world.