Empowering female to escape welfare dependency

Karen Sugar produced the Women's Global Empowerment Fund so as to help relieve gender deprivation and promote women's empowerment. The organisation offers girls in north eastern Uganda access to microfinance borrowings, company and leadership coaching, comprehension, and health efforts. "I had never been to Uganda, or anywhere in Africa, but I was determined to work in a vulnerable post-conflict region," Sugar has said. "When you give a small loan and support to a woman, you see the entire family potentially lifted out of extreme poverty." After meeting Urban Decay co-founder Wende Zomnir in 2014, the two partnered up to clear a women's leisure centre within which villagers could conduct lectures, use the Internet, and earn peer counseling politeness of WGEF's Access to Justice plan, that helps children describe and exert their privileges in judge over stolen-land controversies, family abuse, or other concerns.