2019, Where it all began…

Jake, our founder, visited Uganda for the first time in 2019.

“Welcomed with open arms, I stayed with a small community in Mutoto for around a month. In what was a culture shock beyond comprehension I remember struggling to understand how communities could live in such poverty. Children would pass away from preventable and treatable illnesses; food, water, shelter, education, electricity was simply not readily available. Hidden from the children who saw me as an exotic climbing frame, I’m not embarrassed to share that I would sneak away and cry during that first week. Once it was time to leave, I promised myself I would be back. I knew I had the capacity to help, to use my privilege that’d kept me alien to the challenges of others, to do something good. And not by imposing solutions imported from the UK, but by lending my time and skills to support the inspiring work of community leaders already working to empower their communities.”