A Working Future
(Uganda, 2022)
A Working Future is a project aimed at providing young people, especially women, with skills and trainings to grow chili and other crops to achieve economic independence. This project takes place in the region of Tororo, bordering with the neighbouring country Kenya. Although the chili is widely cultivated in this part of Uganda, the spice powder is mostly sold to the British market.
We followed three young women, Brenda, Anna and Christable.
Brenda is an entrepreneur, Anna is learning from Brenda and has the dream of expanding her business, and Christable is the youngest, still at the beginning of the trainings. Three women with different stories, yet they meet similar challenges, from the daily struggle to provide food and support their families, to the shared dream of owning their own land someday. Land ownership is especially difficult for women in Uganda.
Anna (22) harvesting chili.
The AWF project has reached 24.000 youths with trainings in agribusiness.
60% of the youth are young women.
Anna in the chili fields.
Brenda (24) in the field.
Brenda at the end of the harvesting process, preparing the chili to be sold on the market.
Christable (17), together with her brother Joshua, takes care of her six siblings. Her parents passed away because of illness, leaving Christable in charge of the family. They all work in the fields in order to meet the ends, but the daily struggle to find food and ensure access to education for her youngest siblings persists. Together with her mother, Christable was enrolled in the project - A Working Future, where she learned how to grow chili and other crops. In this way she can manage to buy food and meet basic needs.
Nonetheless, it will take time before she will profit from the chili garden. When her mother passed, the grief was so strong that the garden dried out.
Christable is waiting for the rain to stop so she can start the day and work in the cassava field of a client.
Notebooks
(Senegal, 2022)
A photo essay from a field visit with Plan International Norway to Senegal. This household includes a single working mother with three children, their aunt and grandmother. Diarra is a single mother and works as a nurse. She dreams of a better future for her children.
Ensuring education is the only way for her to think of a better future for her children.
Urban beekeeping in Oslo
(Norway, 2021)
Urban beekeeping is on the rise in many cities, representing a new movement of sustainability. ByBi, a small beekeeping cooperative and honey producer works to increase biodiversity and create new homes for bees in Oslo. Ane, beekeeper and manager of ByBi, believes in the importance of bees as an essential part of our ecosystem and our role in protecting them amidst the impacts of dangerous climate change. She recognizes a young generation of beekeepers as a positive sign of change, towards more responsible behaviors and greater environmental awareness. Alongside ByBi, there are larger businesses that engage in urban beekeeping practices, after receiving trainings from ByBi. Maria, employee at PwC Norway and passionate beekeeper, often goes up to the rooftop of her company’s building in Barcode, the modern district of Oslo. She takes care of the beehives that the company installed on the rooftop as an opportunity to interact with natural environments.
