Katosi Women Center for Development

The Katosi Women Centre for Development will serve as a dynamic hub for continuous learning and skills enhancement. It will provide women and female youth with practical knowledge and training across a variety of fields, including fishing, agroecology, micro-business and enterprise development, financial literacy, tailoring, carpentry, computer and digital skills, electrical work, and crafts. The center will enable them to diversify their income sources, strengthen existing livelihoods, and engage in construction, repair, and maintenance services that are essential to driving rural economic growth and enhancing the community's economic resilience.

The project, in collaboration with Architectes Sans Frontière-Sweden (ASF-Sweden), will construct a two-story multipurpose training facility on a 3.5-acre plot in Katutu Village on the banks of Lake Victoria, Uganda.

The project is in the preliminary phase. In January 2022, two project members travelled to Uganda to collect data for the preliminary study. Together with the local partner, they carried out a workshop with some of the women affected by the project and visited local communities to gather information about the local architecture, building structure and materials.

Thanks to the data collected and the study trip, the preliminary study was approved by ASF Sweden. During April 2023, an ASF architect joined the project group to work with the project proposal, prepare process, design and fundraising campaigns.

All building materials are to be procured within the region including the burnt clay bricks and sand. The manpower for construction is to be mobilized through the community to provide employment opportunities to the skilled and unskilled labor from the area.