Ngalo Buwereza Organisation (NBO) held its first national workshop in Kampala, Uganda. The purpose of the workshop was to unite home-based workers from across Uganda under one umbrella to build solidarity and to create ownership and clarity around the objectives of NBO amongst its members.
HomeNet Africa held a preparatory meeting for the HNI Congress in the month of February, 2023 in Entebbe, Uganda. Were present affiliates delegates from Kenya (10) , Uganda (10) and Tanzania (5) together with observer participants from South Africa (1) and Ethiopia (1), who were joined by a HNI delegation of 3, the Ngalo Buwereza Organization chairperson (1), WIEGO (1) and the regional coordination support (1).
The five countries currently represented in HNA, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda met in December 2021 and February 2022 to agree the vision and goals for building a regional home-based workers’ network. The vision is for home-based workers to have our own registered organisation that addresses all our needs as over-burdened women workers.
2022 was the first time that HNI African affiliates and allied organisations took the initiative to plan their own way to celebrate International Home-Based Workers Day; as home-based workers always joined or participated in activities initiated at the global level. After discussing several ways of how Homenet Africa could celebrate the date, they decided to
By: Lydia Nabbaka (Tukolerewamu Organisation) and Agnes Kabuye (Envirojewels)
After the culmination of the Flow Project, supported by WIEGO under the Uganda Federation for Fair Trade, Home-based Worker leaders got together in 2018 and began planning for a Home-based Workers network in Uganda.
By: Edwin Bett, HNI International Working Committee member HomeNet Kenya with the support of WIEGO and HomeNet International did schedule to carry out capacity building trainings through mobilization and organising sessions across the eight (8) cluster areas of Machakos, Nairobi, Kisii, Kisumu, Bungoma, Lodwar, North Rift (Nandi and Elgeyo Marakwet) and Central Rift (Naivasha, Laikipia
By: Edwin Bett, HNI International Working Committee member The 13-15th of July, 2021 saw the hosting of the Kenyan National Workshop on home-based workers and supply chains by HomeNet Kenya (HNK), The Kenya Federation for Alternative Trade (KEFAT) and Women In Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). The activity was made possible through the Dfid WOW
Beth Lunkuse, home-based worker from Uganda explains in this video how too.. She recently participated in a competition, it looked at how , to help re-imagine the future of food markets in Africa, to exhibit vital connections between the planet and our plates, and look at new approaches to the way food is processed. By
Since the start of the national Lockdown in South Africa, home-based workers were severely affected. Abby’s story is one of several thousands who suffered loss of income during this period. In fact, since the beginning of 2020 Abby had no work.
We work together in the Litha Cooperative, a registered cooperative in Cape Town. The group is composed of eight women home-based workers. We are one of seven cooperatives that get regular work from the social enterprise, Township Patterns.
