Pilot project for integrated,
community-based, scalable
solutions in Africa
Based in Uganda, Footprint to Sustainability is a survivor-led pilot project focused on income-generating activities to end the cycle of human trafficking while scaling climate-change sensitization and results
The Challenge
Millions in Uganda face a compounded threat:
- climate-change drought leading to serious food insecurity
- traditional cooking methods exacerbating deforestation and
pollution while elevating health and safety risks - plastic waste threatening crops, ecosystems, lakes and rivers
- extreme poverty creating vulnerability to human trafficking
- women and children in heightened and increasing danger
These problems are connected.
And gaining in urgency across the continent.
Community-based Scalable Solutions
This pilot project incorporates urgent capacity building in four synergistic areas:
Sustainable Cooking
Connecting climate change, food security and nutrition
Sustainable Fashion
Generating income through capacity building in sewing
Trash to Treasure
Upcycling waste for pollution reduction and self-employment
Climate Literacy
Expanding trafficking outreach to include climate components
Co-operation Partners
Footprint to Sustainability is a project of the survivor-led Footprint to Freedom,
the International Forum for Understanding and its subsidiary SDG2030.me
Leadership
Malaika Oringo
Project Lead
Les Simm
Strategy and Mentoring
Fauziah Wanjiru
Uganda Lead
Heather Wokusch
Strategy and Mentoring
Built to scale across Africa
– and beyond
After compiling lessons learned from the Uganda pilot project, Footprint to Sustainability will be scaled to other African nations. Emphasis on capacity building for survivor-led and community-based groups working on local and regional levels.