PROJECT BACKGROUND
Following the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda, the Government of Uganda imposed a total lock down in March 2020. This has had devastating effects mainly on the poor people who live from hand to mouth. Women with disabilities are among those most hit by the pandemic, they cannot earn income from their small scale business and house hold income generating activities due to the COVID-19 lockdown. They have exhausted their savings and can no longer put food on table because they have sold their property.
Women with Disabilities are involved in value addition such as packaging of cereals, and cookies, making liquid soap and Jeyz, and bar soap and they have been providing basic needs for their children such as food, medical care and education prior to the COVID -19 pandemic.
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