Four days until I arrive in Kampala, Uganda. Three months and counting that I have been excited about the opportunity that awaits me. I will be spending the summer interning with Women of Kireka (WoK), a registered business in Kampala, Uganda. Composed of internally displaced women from the north of the country, WoK makes lovely hand-crafted jewelry which it markets both locally and internationally. Working with WoK this summer I will be responsible for a number of tasks, all to meet the ends of helping the women grow the organization into a profitable business that is eventually wholly community-owned and operated. Having spent the past nine months immersed in academia, I cannot wait to be on the ground in Uganda and I have my fingers crossed that some of those lectures about collaborative governance and social insurance (etc., etc., etc.) will prove useful. (For more of my excitement riddled musings, read my introductory post on the WoK blog here.)
My internship this summer is generously supported by the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Nancy G. Klavans Cultural Bridge Fellowship. As a Cultural Bridge Fellow I have been given the incredible opportunity to work with an organization that is genuinely engaged in community-led economic development and am fortunate to be part of an impressive group of Kennedy School students working around the world this summer to promote gender equity.
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