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Urgent Phase 1 campaign · Nyakinengo

Help us build a door no one is left outside of.

The community has already given the land. AWL now needs $50,000 to build the first accessible training block.

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Skills create choices

Fund a place where talent can become an income.

The first block will open tailoring and digital-literacy workshops designed around practical, dignified livelihoods.

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Nothing about us, without us

Help make disability visible as leadership and ability.

AWL is building more than rooms. It is building a community space for skills, voice, savings, and changed attitudes.

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Right now, your gift helps fund

Ramps · wide doors · smooth floors · accessible sanitation · two training workshops

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20+

Community members engaged

Program pillars

Accessible hub in progress

$50k

Phase 1 funding goal

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The problem is not ability.

The problem is the step, the narrow doorway, the missing equipment, and the opportunity that never arrives.

Why this cannot wait

Too many people are still shut out by spaces never designed for them.

An accessible building is more than walls. It is a place where a young person can learn tailoring, use a computer, build confidence, meet peers, and begin earning without being treated as a burden.

Open the classroom

Create level access, wide entrances, and safe learning spaces.

Open a livelihood

Equip the first tailoring and digital-skills workshops.

Open community attitudes

Make disability, talent, and leadership visible together.

Open long-term dignity

Build toward income-generating services that help sustain the Hub.

I want to help open the door

One building, four paths forward

Your support connects learning to independence.

AWL’s programs are designed to move from access, to skill, to income, to voice.

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Inclusive Education

Helping children and families remove barriers to learning through accessible spaces, school engagement, and dignity-centred support.

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Vocational Training

Turning practical skills into confidence, income, and community participation for young people and adults with disabilities.

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Marketplace of Dignity

Helping products made by persons with disabilities reach buyers through better visibility, quality, and market access.

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Advocacy & VSLAs

Strengthening PWD-led voice, savings groups, community mindset change, and local accountability.

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The community has done its part

The land is waiting for bricks.

AWL is not asking you to begin from nothing. The site is secured, the first block is defined, and the community is committed. Your gift helps turn that local commitment into an accessible place of learning and work.

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Campaign goal $50,000

Funding open

$0 raised · $50,000 remaining after verified contributions.

Use AWL’s official Centenary Bank - Uganda Mbarara Branch details to make your contribution. Every honest contribution moves the first block closer.

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Do not leave the door closed

Help create the place where ability gets a chance.

The land exists. The plan exists. What is missing is the funding to begin construction.

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