Siga Pod Gombe Kitasa(SPGK)

Gombe-Kitaasa, wakiso District
Launched in September 2024

membership: 19 active members
Program team: Nakangu Mary – Program Coordinator

SPGK is located in Gombe-Kitaasa, one of the 60+ informal settlements of Wakiso, one of the 146 districts in Uganda. The vulnerable urban neighborhoods are challenged by exceptionally poor hygiene and sanitation,

close quarters and unstable, inadequate housing, soil unfit for growing crops, and a continually increasing population furthering pressure on an already poor infrastructure. Most SPGK women are single moms who as poor and marginalized lack an education, access to information, and healthcare, and often are abandoned by their husbands, thereby having the sole responsibility for the well-being of their children.

The majority of SWF/SPGK members have full responsibility for their families, face unstable rent and fluctuating prices on needed commodities and the high cost of health care.

Current Projects: tailoring collaborative, poultry rearing, bio-briquettes making, liquid soap, school book binding, VSLAs