With roots in the Bay Area and a deep desire to transform lives in Uganda, we began sending a team to the village of Bugolobi in 2007 to teach the art of sewing to girls. In the United States, BayGanda has been an innovative leader in Bay Area sewing camps since 2005, while also filling a need for accessible summer programs in the urban community. Today, BayGanda continues to support girls with their academic and creative aspirations, helping to raise up a generation of empowered, enriched, and economically secure young women.
Originally a fishing village, through agriculture, Punta Colonet grew to a community of approximately 4,000 people. The majority of people in Colonet work in fields picking strawberries, tomatoes, peppers and onions while workers earn approximately 16 US dollars a day often working 12 hours in a shift, 6 and 7 days a week. Our mission for Punta Colonet is to come alongside the single mothers who work in these fields by providing support for their children through a free daycare, after school programming and summer camps.
