Who runs Elgon Empowerment?

Currently it’s the ‘5’ Musketeers. Elgon Empowerment has 5 founding trustee’s each leading on a different arm of our associations operations and running. We’re a mixed matched group of UK professionals, we’re from different walks on life, with different backgrounds, yet we all have one thing in common: we deeply care about the work of Elgon Empowerment.

Social empowerment means nothing to me, what do you actually do?

Facilitate workshops on women’s empowerment & reproductive health.

-We work with local experts who we fund to deliver workshops to our communities. These workshops speak openly about women’s health and collective challenges faced by women, with a key aim to reduce stigma around periods. These workshops provide education on female reproductive health, on menstrual health, and on how to use sanitary products. 

Provide thousands of reusable sanitary products

-We work with local suppliers of sanitary products who fulfil our orders. We provide every attendant of our women’s workshops with a reusable sanitary kit. We also do our best to keep community schools stocked with menstrual health products. 

A new strand of work we’re exploring in 2024 is men’s health workshops

-Community leaders have highlighted the difficulties men suffer and how this also impacts women in their households as well as communities more widely. We’re committed to providing a forum for men to learn about mental health and to talk openly on their collective challenges.

Where will my donation go?

Let’s talk money. We feel it’s essential that we’re transparent and honest in our work, especially when it comes to funding.

Every penny we receive from fundraising is used to directly support community led social empowerment projects. All our organisation’s costs are covered by volunteers. Expenses incurred by travel for example, even the running of this website, is funded by volunteers, not your donations.

Currently we fund our work through crowdfunding groups of people donate and collectively fund our projects. However, as our work grows, we’ll be looking to work with small businesses, gain partnerships, and even apply for charitable grants. 

At this stage in our organisation, it costs less to use platforms such as GoFundMe, rather than to purchase a dedicated payment function. Whilst every penny we receive from fundraising is indeed used to fund community empowerment, we recognise platforms such as GoFundMe, will take a very small percentage before we see any money. However, this is a cost immeasurably offset by all of the good we’re able to do, facilitated by such platforms.