Nearly 13 years ago Dr. Isaac Lufafa and I asked the question “what would happen if we shared knowledge?”. That question, discussed in a children’s hospital in Uganda was the start of The Grow Hope Foundation and Tusubira Village. Over these ten years we have empowered hundreds if not thousands of women in rural Uganda. We do that through education, mentorship, modeling, and friendship. We aren’t an aid-based organization because the women we work with need skills and tools more than they need aid. We have seen the women who have worked with us- some for the entire ten years do incredible things. Businesses have been started and grown, children have been sent to school, the health of their homes have improved remarkably. And the secondary effect has been that many of these women have gone on to then empower other women in their lives.

Through the work of Dr. Isaac and Sharon Natugga, Isaac's wife and our social worker, the women we work with have drastically changed their own lives. Education is something you can’t take away from someone. Knowledge is power and one of the easiest things to share. The route we chose may not be the easiest one but we feel it has been the one with the most impact.

In 2025 The Grow Hope Foundation was dissolved. I traveled to Uganda in October 2025 to see how they had created a sustainable program that will continue the work that we had begun all those years ago. The goal of empowering a community has been a wonderful success.