A ugandan energy bomb is coming to Denmark!

Phibby Otaala is the director of Ugandan organization Hands of Hope. And she is not a woman to write about – she is a woman to be experienced! Lively and with an exceptional drive and energy, she can blow away most normal people. Through the last 10 years she has been working tirelessly to make the lives of people from Tororo better. And now she is coming to DK.

Phibby (in the middle) with one of the nurses of Hands of Hope project

We will of course report about her visit on this blog, but you can also get the chance to meet her: On March 22 at 19.00 she will be speaking about her work at Hands of Hope in Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 24, Nørrebro. Join us there – it is free and we promise that it will be an experience (just send an email to sfof@sfof.dk)!

In the meantime here is just a small excerpt of what she has accomplished through her organization:

• Hands of Hope has started two secondary schools for children who cannot afford to go to other schools.
• Hands of Hope has supported a group of young women who did not have the means to get an education.
• Hands of Hope organizes “screening-days” for women who wishes to be examined for signs of cervical cancer. Every time such a screening day is organized hundreds of women show up – and very often they bring husbands and children to be examined for other diseases too since that is their only possibility to be seen by a doctor.
• Hands of Hope educate local midwives too take better care of pregnant women and their newborn children by teaching them about hygiene etc.
• Hands of Hope has started a local basketball club – We are sending a volounteer to train the young men in February 
• Hands of Hope is also educating local ambassadors to inform about the prevention of hiv/AIDS

Why are we Helping Hands of Hope?

Imagine not being able to afford to go to the doctor’s.
Imagine not being able to afford to send your children to school.
Imagine not being able to buy yourself a bottle of water when you are thirsty
Imagine playing in a basketball team – without a real basket, on grass, without shoes – and without a ball!


That is the reality for people in Tororo, in the eastern part of Uganda.
Many people here live in poverty, unemployment rates are high and hundreds of women suffer from untreated cervical cancer, hiv/AIDS and other diseases. Sounds hopeless doesn’t it?
But there actually IS hope.


A local woman, Phibby Otaala, has started an organization called Hands of Hope. Through a range of 12 projects, she is struggling to help women and children in the area to improve their lives. A tough job in a country where nothing comes easily.

A group of volounteers from Hands of Hope

She needs all the help she can get – and that is why a group of people from Lifelong Learning organization SFOF and basketball club Falcon in Denmark has decided to lend Hands of Hope a helping hand.
We want to help in as many ways as we can:

• we plan to collect used hospital equipment and bicycles
• we are collecting old shoes, balls, uniforms etc for the basketball team of Hands of Hope
• we want to make fundraising events in Denmark to draw attention to the situation in Uganda 
• And in February we are sending a volunteer to Tororo to train young basketball players

Follow our efforts on this blog and read more about the projects of Hands of Hope – and read more about how we are going to help them and at the same time raise awareness in Denmark about how much WE can help. If we want to.

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Hi everyone! We are in full swing planning our trip to Uganda to train young kids playing basketball. In the meantime we just wanted to show you a photo of some the local players downthere.

Take note of their basket!

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