Why are we Helping Hands of Hope?

Imagine not being able to afford to go to the doctor’s.
Imagine not being able to afford to send your children to school.
Imagine not being able to buy yourself a bottle of water when you are thirsty
Imagine playing in a basketball team – without a real basket, on grass, without shoes – and without a ball!


That is the reality for people in Tororo, in the eastern part of Uganda.
Many people here live in poverty, unemployment rates are high and hundreds of women suffer from untreated cervical cancer, hiv/AIDS and other diseases. Sounds hopeless doesn’t it?
But there actually IS hope.


A local woman, Phibby Otaala, has started an organization called Hands of Hope. Through a range of 12 projects, she is struggling to help women and children in the area to improve their lives. A tough job in a country where nothing comes easily.

A group of volounteers from Hands of Hope

She needs all the help she can get – and that is why a group of people from Lifelong Learning organization SFOF and basketball club Falcon in Denmark has decided to lend Hands of Hope a helping hand.
We want to help in as many ways as we can:

• we plan to collect used hospital equipment and bicycles
• we are collecting old shoes, balls, uniforms etc for the basketball team of Hands of Hope
• we want to make fundraising events in Denmark to draw attention to the situation in Uganda 
• And in February we are sending a volunteer to Tororo to train young basketball players

Follow our efforts on this blog and read more about the projects of Hands of Hope – and read more about how we are going to help them and at the same time raise awareness in Denmark about how much WE can help. If we want to.