Project Compassion – Uganda Teopista's family was surviving on only one meal a day. She couldn't afford to send her seven children to school. Learn how the work of Caritas Australia helped Teopista to increase her family's food and income.
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Little resources, big heart Watch the heart-warming story of the twins Teopista adopted.
Through participating in a Sustainable Agriculture Program supported by Caritas Australia, Teopista was able not only to improve life for her family, but also to extend her generosity to two malnourished young children who had suffered greatly due to the effects of widespread poverty. A number of people in the community had tried to care for the abandoned twins, but had invariably been unable to, due to their own household’s poverty. Teopista found she was now able to take them into her home.
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Hope is a precious thing Take a look inside a Ugandan school where Caritas is helping to teach students sustainable farming practices.
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Working together as a community
Hear from Program Coordinator, Florence Ssebukyu, about the changes that sustainable agriculture has brought to the lives of families in Uganda. Florence is 38-year-old Ugandan woman who was born into a farming family and now works to promote the rights of the poorest and most vulnerable people in her local community and country. She visited Australia this month to visit communities as a speaker for Project Compassion.
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Florence has a Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences, a Diploma in Law, a Masters in Human Rights and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management. She is married to Edward who works with the Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda as an education officer. They have five children of their own - one boy and four girls and they have adopted six orphaned children.
Florence is a very active advocate for women’s and children’s rights on a local, regional and national level, working for many organisations to promote gender equality and support vulnerable children.
Florence has a special interest in promoting the rights of the destitute, especially those suffering from chronic illness and women and children. This led her to pursue a Masters in Human Rights and to set up the Good Samaritan Intervention which is part of the SAP program she coordinates in the Lugazi Diocese.
