Glory Bound

February 14, 2023 - Robin Lathroum, a social worker and clinical nurse, presented an amazing story of teaching women in Uganda to be entrepreneurs.  Since the founding in 2017, Robin’s small team has been united by the desire to see change in the impoverished city of Kampala, Uganda. It is their hope that the work they facilitate will create a sustainable livelihood for people in Uganda. Robin was first invited to Uganda with the understanding that she would teach women to make washable sanitary protection. She wanted to offer them more, so they learned how to make soap. (The places she was invited to visit do not have a soap making tradition and it was a commodity that was hard to come by.)  They began our teaching with personal care items and soap-making, and recently added lotions, creams, healing salves and balms. In conjunction with this latest addition they began a course in horticulture with Introduction to Growing Healing Herbs. Soon after Personal Care they began teaching basic sewing skills which were then applied to Quilting (including quilts, table runners and placemats), Bags (including totes, handbags and backpacks), and finally beginning dressmaking (beginning pattern drafting). Mosaic Arts in the form of planters and wall art, and Jewelry-making are two of our latest courses.  Teaching the students to locally source all materials and supplies for their products has been a really important first step in this process. Through teaching functional craft, Glory Bound Ministry provides an opportunity for people to escape poverty and to become skillful entrepreneurs.