From Coast to Shining Coast: Step By Step Africa is now working with partners in East Africa!  

Step by Step Africa has decided to extend its efforts to another African nation—Uganda. In particular, SBSA is currently providing funding for a partner organization, Collaborative Hands of Love in Family Outreach (CHLFO), organized and managed by a good friend of mine, Sister Anne Muduwa. 

Sister Anne (pictured below) and I met during my all too brief stay in the Jinja District, Uganda. Perched at the source of the Nile, with access to both Lake Victoria and the Victoria Nile, Jinja is a haven for tourists and volunteers.  In this beautiful city, Sister Anne, a nun at the Evangelizing Sisters of Mary convent, recognized suffering in her community and took action to alleviate it.  She established the Collaborative Hands of Love in Family Outreach to assist with sustainable income generation, and mental, emotional, and spiritual support for HIV positive women, many of whom are widows, and women displaced due to ongoing conflict in Northern Uganda.  These women live together in communities where they form important networks and aim to become self-sufficient; they depend on each other for childcare, healthcare and work together on income generation projects, which CHFLO funds.  These communities also work to lessen the negative stigma associated with being HIV positive.  The women are active in their communities, proving to people that their condition does not make them unable or unworthy to participate in community life.         

By donating to Step By Step Africa, you are giving the opportunity for HIV positive and displaced women, as well as their children.  You are providing these women the resources to become self sufficient and, in turn, feed and clothe their
family, send their children to school and maintain good health.  The positive impact of your gift to Step By Step Africa is endless.  

Christa Romaldi

Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors